Today in VoIP

As a business switching to VoIP you can either chose to keep your existing hardware and just convert the signal to the internet as it is leaving your PBX system.  This can even be done with a simple ATA.  But you may want to consider switching to IP phones from the start. IP phones connect you directly to the internet from the phone.  The functionality can be all hosted elsewhere and provided to you.  The cost of IP based phone equipment is astoundingly less then anything in the PBX system field.  You can get the same functionality for less then a thousand dollars in a VoIP IP phone set up as you can in a $5000 to $10,000 PBX system.  Most of the things you may want to upgrade on your phone system either come standard with a hosted IP PBX solution or cost hundreds rather thousands to upgrade.  And perhaps most importantly is how flexible and moveable an IP phone system is.  In many cases you can pick up your phone system from location A and move to location B and in a matter of minutes have the whole system back up and running.  Often all that you need to do is unplug from one place and plug it into another.  You can even expand your IP phone set up that quickly and easily as well.  It will probably take you longer to get the IP phone out of the box then it will to have it up and running in your office.  Oh AND you can even tie all of your office no matter how remote together as though you were all in the same room.   Even if your PBX system is brand new you may want to seriously consider switching to IP phones.  I don’t think you will regret it

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