What You Should Know About Hosted Voip and IP PBX | The Communication Blog

Saturday, October 27, 2012

What You Should Know About Hosted Voip and IP PBX

By Saul Saresi


Those new to the world of internet telephony would be forgiven for thinking that 'Hosted VoIP' and 'IP PBX' are little more than dyslexic wordings concocted during a late night game of drunken scrabble.

But even to those a little more informed who understand the basic meanings of VoIP and IP PBX, the differences between the two business phone systems may well still be a matter of confusion and mis-understanding

VoIP stands for Voice Over Internet Protocol and uses the internet as a means to transfer voice or audio data from point A to point B by converting the data to digital instead of analogue. Digitising the data makes it possible to cram much more data into the bandwidth and substantially reduces call costs.

IP PBX systems are the successor of PBX systems. PBX systems were designed so that large businesses were able to organise their own phone systems by routing their own telephone calls through their own telephone network.

Internet Protocol Public Branch Exchange (IP PBX) systems vary from PBX systems for two reasons. Firstly, connect and install hardware and equipment via Gateway cards and secondly, signalling between the IP phone and the PBX server takes place over LAN.

IP PBX systems allow you to keep complete control of your telephone system instead of control belonging to your service provider. However, with service provider managed (Hosted Voip) systems, any problems or maintenance will be taken care of by them.

With Hosted VoIP systems all upgrades and enhancements come as standard and the provider will have many more features to offer the user. However with an IP PBX system there is no risk of any price increases so you will always know where you stand.

Hosted Voip systems afford you an unrivalled level of mobility by allowing you to connect to your Voip network via any internet connection points. The plus side for IP PBX is that, while you do not have the benefit of complete mobility, you have full control over your system and are able to refine all system details down to the smallest minutiae.

So as with all questions of importance there is no straight answer. To many smaller businesses, a Hosted Voip system will seem like the obvious choice. However, for larger companies and those wanting more control over their telephone system and their call rates, an IP PBX system is the obvious choice.




About the Author:



The Communication Blog
Bookmark and Share

No comments:

Post a Comment

 

The Communication Blog Copyright © 2009