Cloud PBX Office Telephone System – Fulfilling your Work from Home Dream

by Marie Laimson Business Consultant

One way or the other everyone has dreamed to run their businesses from home. Just imagine having to do all your work whilst sitting on your favorite recliner and watching your kids play in the backyard. Eat your favorite home cooked meals and say goodbye to the awful cafeteria buffet meals. It is just a dream that everyone is not entitled to – that was before. With today’s technological innovation a work from home set up is very possible and will not compromise your business.

The main blunder to a work from home set up is communication. Business owners have to be available 24/7 for any sales, support or administration issues your business might face. Although a smart phone offers the mobility you need it is not a business grade solution and it is very unprofessional to talk to customer from a mobile because of all the interference that it is vulnerable to. What you then need is a business grade phone system that will let you perform all your duties as if you are in the office. So does this mean that you need a PBX at home? Partly yes and partly no, you need not purchase a dedicated PBX for your home because it will be a completely separate phone system from your office.

So what’s the solution? A new and innovative office telephone system called the cloud PBX is now taking the business sector by a storm because all the benefits that brings and one of it is the ability to fulfill your work from home needs. So what’s the fuzz all about? Basically a cloud PBX office telephone system is another proprietary of VoIP solutions. In traditional telephone systems you need a bunch of copper wires to connect hardware and thus distance between handsets is limited.

The best that you can probably do is to place your handsets in different floors of your office building. With a cloud PBX there is no hardware or copper wires needed. This means that you can locate your phones anywhere in the world and work as if all of it is in the same office.

So how does it work? Instead of having an on premise based components, the cloud PBX uses trunks and servers to interconnect internal phones and uses a protocol called SIP to establish connection to regular telephones and mobiles. To make it simple you can think of it as if your PBX is located in a server or network and is accessed by your phones through the internet. This gives you the flexibility that you need to work from home without lagging on your communication needs.

Furthermore the cloud PBX systems can save your business by as much as 50% on your telecommunication bills through cheaper call cost rates and cheaper line rentals. This will allow you to hit two birds with one stone. Fulfill your work from home dream and cut back on your overhead cost. How good can it get than that?