There are many solutions to consider when implementing or upgrading your PBX systems. These include:
Premise-Based Solutions: The business owns and manages the equipment on-site, and usually includes a maintenance contract for moves, adds and changes. This has been the primary approach to enterprise PBX systems for many years.
Hosted PBX Solutions: Hosted PBX systems offers businesses all the advantages of utilizing VoIP without the large initial investment needed to purchase its own network equipment. The only equipment that your company owns or leases are the desktop phone sets, everything else is provided in the Cloud. With the use of proper WAN redundancy, this approach can be very cost effective dependable. The hosted PBX means that you will never need to upgrade your phone system software, Instead of a relatively fixed cost for your phone system infrastructure, you pay a monthly cost per phone. This is not a Vonage type solution, but a true business class PBX system.
Managed Solutions: A solution that enables a business to outsource the management of its PBX system, usually based a monthly charge agreement. This addresses the management of your premise based PBX, by outsourcing it. Such managed services can range from the basic moves, adds and changes to auto-attendant scripting and voice-over recordings.
Hybrid Solutions: A combination of both Managed and Hosted PBX systems, customized to the needs of the business. This solution is often the best option for larger businesses with multiple locations.
Unified communication systems is the new term used for most state-of-the-art PBX systems. The feature available are too many to mention in this posting, but vary by provider. SD-WAN-Experts can help you sort through this maze.
SASE Experts will help your company to simplify and streamline the PBX system selection process, so you can focus on your business – not your phone system. We offer a wide variety of options that allow you to keep operating expenses down and direct these savings back into growing your business.
