Big News for Businesses - New Phone System Designs Improve Efficiency, Reduce Cost
>> Saturday, February 11, 2012
Summary: Businesses have some irrefutable complaints about their phone systems. The older systems are unnecessarily expensive and sometimes absurdly out of date.
Businesses have some irrefutable complaints about their phone systems. The older systems are unnecessarily expensive and sometimes absurdly out of date. Some are also at least partly useless, as bad as those big accounting software packages that provide you with endless features that you’ll never have the slightest need to use. The good news is that the new telephone systems are changing the whole idea of phone system design.
Extinction of the dino-phone systems
Designers have finally got a word in on the subject of big, cumbersome, phone systems. Part of the problem has been that the old analog system designs, with their bizarre hardware and to put it politely senile range of functions, persisted long after mobile phones took over the world. If you’re under forty, you may not even know what some of the functions on the old style systems are supposed to do.
Don’t worry about that too much. You’re unlikely to meet anyone still in business who can remember what manual call transfers using jacks and switches are. You can, however, find yourself lumbered with one of these fossils, or something very like them, masquerading as new systems. If so, look out, because these systems are real “liabilities in progress”. There’s still quite a lot of phone technology on the market which is based on those old principles, and it’s now an expensive nuisance for businesses.
The new designs
New business phone systems are truly digital systems. The only thing they have in common with the old systems is that they’re still called phone systems. Even that is a bit of a misnomer, because the new phone system designs are very much more like computer designs.
The basic drivers behind the new designs are:
The new phone systems are software based. Just plug in the phones and you can set up a 1000 extension system in a few minutes. You can even hook up your phone system to cloud servers, and do the whole system operation using a “virtual PBX”. Ultra-easy, and very cost-effective, particularly for large organizations.
If you’re getting the impression that all the deadwood of decades of lousy design has been thrown out with these new phone systems, you’re right. Don’t tolerate a dismal phone system. Explore the new systems, because you’ll save a fortune.
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telephone systems, business phone systems, phone systems, phone system
Businesses have some irrefutable complaints about their phone systems. The older systems are unnecessarily expensive and sometimes absurdly out of date. Some are also at least partly useless, as bad as those big accounting software packages that provide you with endless features that you’ll never have the slightest need to use. The good news is that the new telephone systems are changing the whole idea of phone system design.
Extinction of the dino-phone systems
Designers have finally got a word in on the subject of big, cumbersome, phone systems. Part of the problem has been that the old analog system designs, with their bizarre hardware and to put it politely senile range of functions, persisted long after mobile phones took over the world. If you’re under forty, you may not even know what some of the functions on the old style systems are supposed to do.
Don’t worry about that too much. You’re unlikely to meet anyone still in business who can remember what manual call transfers using jacks and switches are. You can, however, find yourself lumbered with one of these fossils, or something very like them, masquerading as new systems. If so, look out, because these systems are real “liabilities in progress”. There’s still quite a lot of phone technology on the market which is based on those old principles, and it’s now an expensive nuisance for businesses.
The new designs
New business phone systems are truly digital systems. The only thing they have in common with the old systems is that they’re still called phone systems. Even that is a bit of a misnomer, because the new phone system designs are very much more like computer designs.
The basic drivers behind the new designs are:
- Improved efficiency- Why have a quasi-mechanical system for digital phones and computers at all, anyway? Why have intermediate steps in call flow management? So the designers came up with “private servers”, which are as efficient as internet servers. This is core communications technology, easy to manage, easy to install, and very easy to work with. The servers just purr along in the background, managing thousands of calls.
- Improved flexibility- If you have a phone system in which moving a few extensions around or setting up a new operation seems like a major production, let’s just say that the best thing to do with that phone system is to “dispose of thoughtfully”.
The new phone systems are software based. Just plug in the phones and you can set up a 1000 extension system in a few minutes. You can even hook up your phone system to cloud servers, and do the whole system operation using a “virtual PBX”. Ultra-easy, and very cost-effective, particularly for large organizations.
If you’re getting the impression that all the deadwood of decades of lousy design has been thrown out with these new phone systems, you’re right. Don’t tolerate a dismal phone system. Explore the new systems, because you’ll save a fortune.
Search Terms:
telephone systems, business phone systems, phone systems, phone system
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