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snom VoIP phones: snom 821 – The 8 experience – official version

admin — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 05:38:48 +0000

call 954 578 1055 to order. More info at – http://www.snom.com/en/home/

Hosted PBX Plans – 4 Line phone system starting at $69.00 per Month

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:49:44 +0000

SoFla Voice allows you to seamlessly scale your phone system as your business grows. Plans include pre-built blocks of extensions, allowing you to easily add new users on the fly. Plans come in groups of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 extensions, but can be customized to the size of your business as well. Call us today to find out more. 866.657.4559

Virtual PBX – Hosted PBX System

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:21:52 +0000

Call for information on our hosted PBX packages- 866 657 4559

Understanding VOIP

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:10:39 +0000

VoIP is fast becoming the replacement technology for voice communication. However many people still have questions as to how it works? VoIP costs less than your traditional phone service, this is what makes it attractive to most consumers. Not only does it cost less than your traditional phone service it also costs less than the vast majority of monthly cell phone plans.

Voip Systems available at SoFla Voice

Call: 954 578 1055

Email: contact@soflavoice.com

Why Hosted PBX?

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:20:52 +0000

Why Hosted PBX ?

In the corporate, enterprise and government market place, traditional PBX telephone systems have dramatic costs associated with them. Both in terms of operating and maintenance costs. Simple changes like adding, moving or changing an extension can have substantial costs involved with outsourced maintenance contracts. Hardware support contracts only add to the overall expense. The return on investment (ROI) can take well over 5 years. Fast growing companies you can end up spending even more capital they need to expand and grow.

The world is changing rapidly and people now work from remote offices, home or at the office. Communicating between remote offices or home workers will have additional costs. The extra time taken to check personal phone bills to ensure calls are used for company matters can take time. Time is money.

By using a hosted PBX, you are free to move locations at any time. Home workers, offices in different geographic locations or even abroad all communicate and connect to the same servers at Talking Platforms. You can move the phone where you like, all you need is a high speed Broadband connection.

Hosted service means renting. Renting has substantial benefits over purchasing for most companies, especially when the shelf life of hardware is short lived and the initial investment cost is very high.

When you sell Hosted PBX services you immediately reap the benefits of reduced capital expenses, lower operating costs, elimination of expensive hardware contracts while at the same time lowering operational costs associated with reduced national and international long distant calls.

VoIP Phones : Snom

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:46:36 +0000

Snom VoIP Phones and SIP Proxy/PBX

Compatible with SoFla Hosted PBX
www.snom.com

VOIP Phones – Polycom

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:21:15 +0000

Business VoIP Phones – Compatible with SoFla Hosted PBX

Polycom SIP 650
- 2 port 10/100 switch
- 6 Line appearances
- Speakerphone
- PoE Support

Polycom 650 Sidecar
Attendant expansion console

Polycom SIP 550
- Four-line manager’s phone
- Polycom HD Voice
- Cutting-edge SIP features

Polycom SIP 450
- Revolutionary voice quality with Polycom HD Voice^TM
- High-resolution backlit LCD
- Built-in XHTML Microbrowser for third party applications
- Fully enabled to run the Polycom Productivity Suite
- Three lines for a moderate volume of calls
- Two port 10/100 Ethernet Switch

Polycom SIP 430
- 2 port 10/100 switch
- 2 Line appearances
- Speakerphone

Polycom SIP 330
- 2 port 10/100 switch
- 2 Line appearances
- Speakerphone

Polycom IP 6000
- Polycom HD Voice for outstanding clarity
- Acoustic Clarity Technology
- Integrated Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Polycom IP 7000
- HD Voice for outstanding clarity
- Flexibile and expandible
- Large, high-resolution LCD display
- Integrated Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Virtual PBX

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:25:45 +0000

Virtual PBX Defined

Here’s a little secret. We use the terms, Virtual PBX and Hosted PBX interchangeably. As far as we are concerned, they mean the same thing.

From your phone to our servers, our virtual pbx is a completely IP enabled service. SoFla leverages leading IP phones from companies like Polycom, Linksys and others. With your pbx service from SoFla, you can send and receive calls from sophisticated IP phones that resemble traditional, enterprise-grade desk phones. While the service is virtual, your user experience will be as if your pbx were sitting right down the hall in your telecom closet. And when you are using the service remotely, you will leverage the same sophisticated corporate phone and have the exact experience you have in your office!

Using the SoFla’s virtual service, you can expect:

An equivalent experience to owning an enterprise grade pbx
Sophisticated desk phones with multiple lines, 3-way calling, speed dial, call hold, etc. as standard features of the service.
A completely IP enabled solution from end-to-end.

This is in sharp contrast to other virtual pbx services that leverage existing land lines. In this model, a virtual pbx service does all of the call routing but you use existing phone lines and cell phones as the user interface. Calls are forwarded around from traditional phone line to traditional phone line.

Defining hosted PBX

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:09:39 +0000

Hosted PBX is a widely used term today with different interpretations and definitions. Each business VoIP service provider has implemented their own versions of what they believe is a hosted PBX and this has led to confusion and misconceptions in the marketplace. Here we would like to better define what is mean by the term Hosted PBX.

SoFla Voice Hosted PBX is a business communications web service, delivered over a data connection. SoFla Voice Hosted PBX is unique in that it is truly a web service with no PBX hardware to manage at your end. There is no single point of failure for “your” PBX, no single instance of an Asterisk server or other IP PBX installed on a single physical server and no single network component that can fail and cause “your” PBX instance to have personal problems. Instead, your PBX service is managed along with our largest customers on a single platform, with completely redundant databases, servers, routers and Internet connections. Your hosted pbx service does not run on a single box that can fail and bring your service to a screeching halt.

With SoFla Voice Hosted PBX, you can expect:

A completely scalable service – Technically, there is no difference between you adding 500 new users or 500 customers adding 1 user. Add users at will.
Redundancy – Every hosted PBX account is delivered across a farm of servers, routers and network components. Your service does not rely on any singular point of failure.
Reliability – You will never hear us tell you that someone else on your shared server caused a problem, that has impacted your service.

Other Definitions of Hosted PBX

Our Hosted PBX model is in sharp contrast to what many other business VoIP service providers are calling hosted PBX. In many instances, service providers are simply installing individual instances of Asterisk or other IP PBXs on individual servers. In this model, it is in the best interest of the provider to oversubscribe the number of users on a particular piece of hardware, much like a shared server at a hosting provider, often at the expense of service quality and reliability.

Be careful! This alternate approach comes with issues such as:

Your PBX service may fail if the physical server you are installed on goes down.
Other “tenants” on your assigned server can overwhelm the server and cause your service to fail.
Maintenance and upgrades, both planned and unplanned, can impact your continuity of service.

With SoFla’s Hosted PBX, you leverage our entire redundant and reliable platform and all of it’s capacity with our largest and smallest customers!

Gove us a call today : 866 657 4559

Hosted PBX or Hardware?

admin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:45:33 +0000

The business phone PBX market is one of the fastest changing markets, with significant technology changes occurring on a weekly basis. As such, it’s both easy to miss the important details, and hard to figure out what the difference between some of the services available are. Here, I’ll be working to get you through the difference between business phone PBX types. Even though the site is dedicated to hosted PBX, this part will give you a little more information on why. When you’re in the market for a PBX, you have three basic choices: hardware PBX, hosted PBX, or do-it-yourself PBX. A friend of mine used the term ‘buy, build or host’, and that’s an excellent description, as well as the order I will be approaching the options in. If you don’t already know what a PBX is, I advise reading the PBX 101 first. Buying a PBX System Purchasing a business phone PBX system from vendors like Nortel, Avaya, or Siemens still makes sense for a large company. If you’re looking at hundreds of employees or more in large office buildings or call centers, a premise-based PBX might be most cost effective choice. The most common downsides to a hardware PBX are initial cost and on-site technical management, but companies of that size usually can handle starting expenses and already have a technical support group on site. And if there’s a lot of inter-office communication between employees, having your own PBX system significantly cuts down the costs when compare to standard telephone communication.

Building a PBX System

In terms of building a system, software like Asterisk can be loaded onto a Linux switch and combined with purchased telephony hardware to function as a homebrew PBX. Sign up with a carrier to deliver IP backhauled calls, install IP phones at all the desks, do some light programming inside the Asterisk software, and you’ll have your own basic PBX system. If all of that sounds like it would be simple to do, then a built system might be the right choice. More preconfigured systems like Fonality are also becoming available to reduce the technical expertise required. The disadvantage, however, is still that a fair amount of technical skill is required to get your built system up and running, and even more is required to get all the features provided by other business phone PBX services.

Getting a Hosted PBX System

Hosted PBX systems provide all the advantages of a hardware PBX but without the requirement for a hardware closet, installation, or maintenance. Since you’re having the service provided you get to skip the costs of buying the hardware, which can get pretty exorbitant for a small company. The setup is quick and easy, and you don’t lose any of the features provided to the big companies, which can make a smaller company look larger than it is.

In Closing

If you have hundreds of employees in centralized locations, the starting expense and technical/spatial requirements of having your own hardware is eventually beaten by the lower costs and higher amount of control you have over the system. If your business is full of technical wizards, a built system gives complete control over your phone system at a good price without a significant reduction in features. For everyone else, the best choice is probably a hosted PBX. Keep in mind that this advice is not definitive, though – just keep it in mind as you’re examining your options.

Call us, we’ll help you : 866 657 4559