Choosing the Right VoIP Platform
If you don’t choose the right VoIP platform, you’ll quickly run into a nightmare of complexity and obscurity, while you drop calls, end up with lag and one way audio. Carefully planning and choosing the right systems are essential for your business to achieve the rock solid stability you’ve come to expect from analog phones. With analog phones mostly disappearing from the network across the world, it’s VoIP solutions that are forming the bedrock of business now and into the future.
The Right Solution or Nothing
At Bulldog Data we stand firmly behind only a select few VoIP solutions: Cisco and 3CX. We’ll help you build a pure Cisco or hybrid 3CX solution that’s scalable, manageable and able to deliver the feature set and the stability you need to meet your SLAs and keep your business running smoothly.
For SMB’s you won’t find a better, more robust, more extensible solution than the Cisco Smart Business Communication System or the 3CX Phone System. While, the CSBC is a complete system in a box, 3CX gives you the flexibility to configure PBXs in your virtualized Windows environment. This is the way it should be. Choice and simplicity. If you’re trying to cobble together a system from Asterix, and desperately trying to integrate a bunch of open source stacks into a unified platform you are heading for instability.
The Cisco platform covers the entire network, allowing your polices to flow from node to node, whether it’s the switching infrastructure, the phones or the PBX itself, it’s essential to have a platform that does it all and manages the entire flow of the system. When it comes to VoIP every piece of the puzzle is essential. Too often we see business spending on top of the line PBX systems and phones, but not investing in the proper networking hardware and configuring that hardware to protect the essential voice traffic from other resources competing for bandwidth. It also needs to scale with your business and the Cisco platform is designed to do just that, allowing you to easily grow into new equipment as your business grows.
Cisco Smart Business Communication System
The Cisco Smart Business Communications System combines voice, data, wireless, and video in a secure, converged network, making the operational efficiencies of an enterprise-class solution affordable to small businesses. This IP-based system replaces disparate legacy systems with a single streamlined solution that enables customers to:
- Communicate how, when, and where they want
- Never miss a message or opportunity again
- Collaborate better with their business partners
- Focus on their business instead of on technology
Cisco Smart Business Communications System is a validated solution that supports up to 104 IP phone user deployments; typically encountered in Small Businesses. The solution consists of a series of purpose-built, hardware platforms that include:
- Cisco Unified Communications 500 series with integrated wireless for single or multi-site deployments
- Cisco Small Business Pro ESW500 LAN switches
- Cisco Small Business Pro Secure Router 520
- Cisco Unified IP Phones e.g., 79xx series, SPA525 series desktop IP wireless IP Phones and Cisco IP Communicator
These platforms are complemented by a GUI-based system deployment tools – Cisco Configuration Assistant (CCA) – for easy setup, configuration, and management. This all-in-one solution is designed to provide voice, data, video, security, and wireless capabilities while integrating with existing desktop applications.
3CX Phone Platform for Windows
3CX Phone System for Windows is a software-based IP PBX that replaces a proprietary hardware PBX / PABX. 3CX’s IP PBX has been developed specifically for Microsoft Windows and is based on the SIP standard, making it easier to manage and allowing you to use any SIP phone (software or hardware). A software-based IP PBX / PABX offers many benefits:
- Easier to install & manage via web-based configuration interface
- Far less expensive to purchase and expand than a hardware-based PBX / PABX
- Improve productivity with presence, desktop based call control and extension management
- No need for separate phone wiring – phones use computer network, easy hot desking!
- Delivery mobility by allowing employees to work from home using a remote extension
- Choose between popular IP hardware phones or softphones – no vendor lock in
- Receive & make calls via the standard PSTN using VoIP Gateways or cards
- Save on monthly call costs using SIP trunks, VoIP providers or the Skype gateway!
Take a look at the brochure or download the free edition today and break free from your proprietary PABX!
