PBX Deployment, Self Hosted, Cloud Based Or Hybrid?

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We get asked, what is best PBX solution? many a times in our day to day lives. Usually the question is followed by, Should it be self hosted or cloud based meaning hosted PBX?
We always give answers, different ones based on who asks the question. But today I found an article that analyzes PBX deployment scenarios collectively, Self hosted or premises based (in the closet) Outsourced or hosted PBX (PBX In the cloud) or a hybrid meaning a combined solutions.
Digium Community Director Bryan Johns has written an article in preparation for planned panel discussion at ITExpo East in Miami next month on the same topic.
After reading the article, I have made mental and digital notes, to follow up on that panel discussion at ITExpo 2011.
Digium Blog, Bryan Jones.

Vocalocity Launches "Phone System Makeover 2010" Contest

"Phone System Makeover 2010" http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/
Vocalocity is holding a contest to find an answer for "Phone System Makeover 2010: What Does This Mean For You?" and for the right answers, you will be able to win handsome prizes, up to $10,000 in value.
Apart from those prizes, any business that enter would be able to get 25% off their service.

The Winner: The Company with the most LIKES on their video submission will win a free hosted PBX phone system and free service for an entire year up to a $10,000 value!!

Submission:

• Step 1: Record and then upload a video introducing yourself and your small business and tell us how the right technology could help your small business advance. Submissions must be at least 30 seconds and no more than two minutes in length. The more creative the better! Acceptable file formats are .mp4, .mov, .mpg and .wmv.
• Step 2: Submit your video by uploading it to dropbox.yousendit.com/vocalocitycontest
  We will review submissions and upload them to youtube.com/vocalocitycontest within 24 hours of submission.
• Step 3: Share the link with your friends and colleagues to come and vote for your entry. The video with the most “likes” wins!

Questions? Contact contest@vocalocity.com

Vocalocity via Voip Monitor

Multi-tenant PBXware 2.1Platform for ISPs and Telco’s Released By Bicom

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Bicom's Multi Tenant version of PBXware offers a wide range of options in VoIP IP Telophony for service provides or even large scale building and apartment managers looking to offer VoIP Services to their clients. With the platform they will be able to offer Hosted IPPBX, Residential Lines, Resellers Partitions, Prepaid Long Distance, ANI Recognition, Call Back and EFAX.

Since the system is able to handle unlimited user, unlimited resellers and user/company self portals, service providers to serve IP-PBX market with fully featured hosted IP-PBX solution from a single platform.

Following are some of the features:

• Unlimited Tenants, Unlimited Extensions
• One Interface
• Single IP address required
• Single Server Setup with Optional Redundancy or Cluster
• Co-Branding
• Multi-Language
• Admin Interface
• Customer’s end users self-care interface
• Individual: Extension Numbers and Digits, Call Groups, Dial Plans Etc.
• Management of each individual Tenant Package, DIDs, Trunks, CDRs
• Cool Feautres such as integration of cellphones as extensions
• API for Easy Integrations

You will find more information on the product at http://www.bicomsystems.com/mt/ and an
online demo: http://mt.bicomsystems.com. Use email: admin@domain.com password: mtdemo. for the demo.

Tags: IPPBX, hosted PBX, Multi Tenant IPPBX, Hosted IPPBX, Residential Lines, Resellers Partitions, Prepaid Long Distance, ANI Recognition, Call Back, EFAX

Nortel, Microsoft Communications Alliance is one year old!

The one-year anniversary of the Innovative Communications Alliance between Microsoft and Nortel Networks on July 16 will be a short-lived celebration, as both vendors quickly go back to work on further extensions to their VOIP-focused partnership.

Both vendors claim that in a year's time, the joint Unified Communications initiative has resulted in 430,000 individual end-user licenses for joint offerings from over 100 customers in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

At the same time, "Nortel now has more people trained on (Office Communications Server) than any other channel partner in the world," and it set a speed record for becoming a Microsoft Gold Certified partner in under six months, said Greg St. James, senior director of the Nortel Alliance at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash.

"No one else can as readily in any part of the world help customers optimize OCS and the PBX working together," he added. The two vendors chose to highlight the anniversary because they believe it is a departure from most industry alliances, which often result in little to no real advances for customers.

read more at eWeek article Nortel, Microsoft Show Results from VOIP Alliance

Tags: Communications Alliance, microsoft.nortel, pbx, call center, ocs, office communication server, VOIP Alliance

SMB Hosted VoIP Phone Service is lead by packet8 virtual office

VoIP IP Telephony @ http://snapvoip.blogspot.com
According to a research report released by AMI Partners (http://www.ami-partners.com/) ranked its Packet8 Virtual Office service as the #1 hosted VoIP phone system choice by U.S. based small and medium sized businesses.
"AMI Partners' recent VoIP report is a very insightful and comprehensive study of the rapidly growing market for hosted VoIP business phone services," said 8x8 Vice President of Marketing & Sales Huw Rees. "We are very pleased that our Virtual Office solution, which is based on 8x8's own technology, was one of the first hosted PBX solutions to be deployed worldwide and that it has gained significant market acceptance with more than 7,000 businesses now using the service."
Offering a combination of unlimited local and long distance calling in the United States and Canada plus advanced PBX features for just $49.99 per month/extension, the Packet8 Virtual Office solution is currently being used by more than 7,000 U.S. business organizations. Virtual Office enables small and medium sized enterprises to secure distributed corporate class telecommunications capabilities for a fraction of the cost of wireline business services from traditional phone companies. Unlike comparably priced single line VoIP phone services which offer features more suited to individual residential users, Packet8 Virtual Office provides companies with complete business phone system functionality along with the flexibility to operate each extension from any geographically dispersed location with high-speed Internet access.

The Packet8 Virtual Office service includes an auto attendant, worldwide extension dialing, business class voicemail, a full featured conference bridge and ring groups, in addition to a rich variety of other business class PBX and dial tone features not normally found on premise-based PBX systems. Packet8 Virtual Office reduces an organization's total cost of ownership for telecommunications services because of its minimal initial investment combined with unlimited worldwide calling to other business extensions and Packet8 subscribers, unlimited local and long distance business calling in the United States and Canada and access to Packet8's low per-minute international calling rates to overseas wireline and mobile phone numbers.

Press release

Tags: Packet8, Virtual Office, hosted VoIP, hosted PBX, auto attendant