Have you ever wondered how huge businesses manage to deal with so many calls? From internal communications between employees, to collaboration with remote branches, to incoming calls from clients or customers, the backbone of a business phone system is their PBX, or "Private Branch Exchange." From the rudimentary days of the old plug-in, manually operated switchboard systems, to the modern computer controlled business phone systems of today - it's more than just a means of communication - the PBX is how your business stays relevant in a fast paced business world. Let's have a look at what it takes to bring this technology into your company, or upgrade its existing system.
How you go about buying an integrating a PBX into your business will depend largely on what sort of features and services it provides, as well as how you plan to host it. How much growth do you expect, and how long should the system continue to serve you? Will you need to have your service handle multiple physical locations, and possibly forward calls to other remote locations?
Answering some of these questions can be vital to finding the perfect fit for your business, and its PBX. To help you find those answers, here's some food for thought...
Power outages happen regularly. It is comical that despite having a cutting edge phone service, you have to realise that it's going to be driven by a power network that largely runs on a power grid engineered to the needs of the last century. An worse, a modern computerised system can be brought to its knees by a power outage. Luckily many modern PBX systems come replete with their own integrated UPS (uninterruptible power supply") to prevent this from leaving your business dead in the water, should the power go out. Even in the event of a blackout, the hub of your communications will be left unscathed.
Modern software has seen a flood of high quality open-source development, and the PBX market is no exception. The "Asterisk" project is a suite of high powered, feature rich software PBX tools, very popular with many businesses. The software runs on a standard PC, along with specialized interface cards to connect you to the outside phone system (including everything from standard phone lines, through ISDN or T1 lines.) Features are rich, including robo-dialing, auto-operator menu systems, voicemail, voice over IP, and much more.
Of course this doesn't come without downsides. You'll either need to administer all of this yourself, or hire an expert to setup and administer the system for you. With the full features of the suit, also comes a sometimes difficult and time consuming process of installing it.
No one can predict the future, or determine how their business will change and expand in the coming years. One thing is certain though, your choice of business phone system will be one of the crucial factors in shaping those coming years of expansion. The PBX forms the nervous system, the core of all your business dealings. Without choosing a powerful and business phone system though, that nervous system is left lacking, and your business crippled. Power and expandability are critical in finding the PBX that's the right fit for you.
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