Refurbished Phone Exchange Blog — Phone Systems

Selecting a phone system for your small business can often be daunting. When just first starting out, many business neglect to think about one of their most important purchases. Business phones are critical for the ability to reach and be reached by your customers. Depending on the size of your company, several small business phone system options exist. The phone systems we’ll concentrate on today are the Bizfon 680, NetVanta 7100, Allworx 6x, and Asterisk PBX.   Bizfon 680 The Bizfon 680 is a small phone system produced by Bizfon Inc. The Bizfon 680 is an ideal solution...

  ShoreTel Voice switches are designed to allow a certain number of IP phones to connect to a phone server. In addition to allowing support for IP phones to connect to the server, certain ShoreTel voice switches were release with the ability to store voicemail. These voicemail switches are known as ShoreTel V switches. There are two commonly available voicemail switches released by ShoreTel. These are the ShoreTel 50V and the ShoreTel 90V. The ShoreTel 50V has the ability to support up to 50 IP phones through the switch. This is perfect for medium sized businesses. A separate compact flash...

  What is SIP?Session Initiation Protocol, commonly referred to as SIP, is a protocol commonly used in the voice over IP (VoIP) community. The session initiation protocol creates, maintains, and ends data transmission between two or more parties for an established data media stream of voice or video. What SIP does not do is transmit the media stream itself. SIP works in conjunction with another protocol such as real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) or Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) to deliver the actual data. Why is SIP important?Why SIP is important is that SIP is the most common open standards protocol for establishing phone...

ESI, Estech Systems Inc., has been producing phone systems for years now. Producing both digital and IP based endpoints, their phone systems are as varied and powerful as their telephones. This is a brief introduction into some of their most popular phone systems.     ESI IVX Phone Systems: The ESI IVX series of phone systems come in several classes, the C-Class, E-Class, and S-Class systems. In addition, there is a first and second generation versions of the IVX phone systems. These digital phone systems support several different connections. They can be connected through PRI, ISDN, or analog POTS trunks....

Toshiba Strata Phone Systems – CTX and CIX Toshiba’s telecom department has released several telephone systems over the years. Two systems they released in the 2000’s turned out to be some of their most popular systems. These are the Toshiba Strata CTX and the Toshiba Strata CIX. Customers often call us looking for replacement Toshiba phones for their system, but they are not sure which phone is compatible with their phone system.   Toshiba Strata CTX Phone System: The Toshiba Strata CTX is the older of the two phone systems. The Strata CTX was designed to be a modular system...