Thursday, April 26, 2012

How Can A VoIP Phone System Help Your Company?

By Virginia J. Cole


Small business voice service is offered best through a VoIP phone system (voice over Internet protocol)because it offers everything you need without the high cost. Phone lines and data access can be costly and managing all of it is not always easy. Nonetheless, when you use a VoIP system it becomes easy and much more cost effective. Primarily, the amalgamation of both data and voice services onto a sole network managed by just one company allows the costs to be lower.

In addition to data and voice being combined on the same network, other features such as fax, email and voicemail can also be integrated in a VoIP system. This can increase the office productivity and can even allow your employees to have web conferences through the same handset that controls everything else. Due to the nature of the phone system, employees do not always have to work at the main company location to have access to the phone line. As long as they have the appropriate handset and are connected to the Internet, they are capable of getting phone calls.

Even an average user can usually figure out how to make minor alterations to the configuration of this type of system. The simplicity of VoIP systems is much different from the old PBX systems. These older systems require quite a bit of hardware. No equipment is necessary for a VoIP phone system because the service is sent through an Internet connection. Similarly, there is no need to hire an expert to maintain it. With a hosted PBX system, the hardware and equipment needed to run the system is provided by the VoIP provider. This means that the provider of the service has to maintain all of the equipment.

This benefits you immensely because you never have to worry about having outdated software. Subscribing to the VoIP phone system service is all your company has to complete and the provider of the service will deal with the technology. Subscription to the voice service often comes with all of the usual voice features that you are used to. A number of these features are voicemail, call holding, call forwarding, and caller id. But these are not the only features you will discover. Others include but are not limited to call center queuing and an automated attendant.

The primary thing you need to focus on when choosing a VoIP phone system provider is to find one that offers a direct connection into their system so your calls are secure. Other unwanted providers might simply send your calls blindly over the Internet with a secure, direct connection.




About the Author:



0 comments:

Post a Comment