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January 07, 2008
New Phone Systems for Today's Businesses
By Stefania Viscusi, TMCnet Assistant Editor
While businesses today are largely diverse, there is a common goal of success and increased efficiency that is the ultimate focus for all businesses.
Providing businesses with the capabilities they need to achieve success are the advanced communications offered by new phone systems.
Because today's businesses thrive on quality communications regardless if they are a large enterprise or small business operation, choosing a new phone system is key to success.
Among the greatest advancements is VoIP  technology which connects callers over an Internet connection. This helps businesses to save on long distance fees and replaces them with real-time voice capabilities.
New VoIP phone systems also provide employees with the ability to answer their extensions from anywhere—increasing efficiency and provides unified inboxes for e-mail, incoming faxes, and voice mail messages—to further improve productivity.
Other new telecommunications technologies that also make it possible for businesses with employees who are mostly out of the office to get their job done are phone systems that support a mix of wireless and VoIP capabilities.
"New handheld devices that contain both wireless receivers and voice over IP encoders allow mobile staff to roam seamlessly from a cell tower to a wireless hotspot. As a result, an intelligent phone can find the least expensive way at any given moment for a user to make a phone call, without disrupting important conversations," explains Joe Taylor Jr., Vendor Guru Columnist comments in the article, " Telecommunications for Business: VOIP, Phone Service, & Communications Equipment."
With new phone systems, businesses of today are able to not only save on costs but also increase productivity and have limitless communications capabilities regardless their size.
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Voice over IP (VoIP) | X | | A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more |
(source: http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/phone-systems/articles/17743-new-phone-systems-todays-businesses.htm)
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