Business Phone Systems for
Enhanced Business Operations

When making a business phone system decision, businesses first need to determine which type of phone system best meets their business needs. Will a traditional phone system or an IP phone system provide the benefits that are key to business operations?

IP phones systems can provide unique advantages:

Lower total cost of ownership. An IP phone system can lower total cost of ownership for businesses. Long distance charges for remote offices, the expense of teleworking, and international travellers' phone charges can be dramatically reduced with an IP business phone system. Moving an employee is as simple as unplugging a telephone and plugging it in at a new location—as opposed to costly service calls from legacy phone system vendors. IP phone system business owners can converge their data and voice communications, avoiding the need to deploy and manage two separate networks and infrastructure. For example, running a traditional phone line to each employee's desk can cost over $100 per line. When setting up a new office, why pay the hundreds or thousands of dollars in cabling?

In addition to the hard dollar savings, an IP phone system can make workers more productive. A unified dial plan gives employees easy and fast access to each other, regardless of their location, saving time every day for every employee. Over the course of a year that savings can add up. And overworked IT staff can easily configure the IP phone system using a web browser instead of the complicated interfaces from legacy vendors.

Enhance business revenue. The abundance of applications supported by an IP phone system can enhance customer service and improve business performance. And integrating the IP phone system with business software such as call center and conferencing applications can boost top-line revenue.

Find out more about 3Com business phone system offerings or call us at 1-800-638-3266.