Which is something I really know very little about and with so many options on today’s market, my head’s spinning. The old traditional PBX systems are pretty complex and still very expensive, even for old refurbished ones. However, my new guy TJ came across the new “Microsoft ResponsePoint.” Its a platform that a few hardware companies built on, such as D-Link, Quanta and Aastra, and its an IP-based phone system that seems really cool.
Without turning this into too big of a plug for Microsoft, I’m just saying that for $3200, you get a brand new phone system, that expands to 50 phones, with 10 phones built in, and it does really cool stuff like voice recognition, extentions, voicemail that shows up in your Outlook inbox, etc. Seems killer… if anyone knows of a PBX system that might be better for a small biz of 10 employees, let me know, otherwise I’m probably staying on the MS bandwagon for one more stop.
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1 mike // Dec 7, 2007 at 3:55 pm
At that startup that I worked at, we used Asterisk. I don’t know too much about it, because I wasn’t involved in setting it up, but I do know that it’s free. It’s linux based though, and I think it’s kind of a pain in the ass if you don’t know what you’re doing.
2 Costin // Dec 8, 2007 at 11:53 am
Yeah, I read up on Asterisk a while ago but you still need all the phone cards and hardware, and I’d prolly be way in over my head with it. I just checked out their site, and they have some nice turnkey solutions, but it comes out to more than that MS solution. Gonna go check out the ResponsePoint package on Monday… I’ll probably post a followup entry.
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