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Testing the Managed PBX Waters

Posted by strom on June 3, 2008

Hosted IP telephony services let users sample benefits without overhauling existing phone systems.
Corporations that haven’t yet gotten involved with IP telephony have a new method to test-drive this technology without a lot of up-front investment: They can use a hosted PBX managed services provider. While that’s a mouthful, the idea is relatively simple: Take a systems integrator that can provision an Internet connection between its office and yours, buy a couple of IP telephones, and the integrator takes care of the rest.

You can read the rest of my story, which appeared in this month’s Baseline magazine, here.

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