How Does a VOIP Business Phone System Work?
Many businesses are now considering moving their business phone systems to VOIP. But VOIP phone systems are very different from the traditional phone services you are used to. Consider this: When you buy traditional phone service from the "phone company", they run a set of copper wires from their central office to your facility. If you need to have more than one phone call going at a time, you will need multiple pairs of copper. The phone company assigns a phone number to that line, one of a limited number that are available to that central office. (In other words, if your phone central office is in London and you want an Glasgow phone number, it's a major issue and is going to cost a lot.) Once the line(s) are wired to your office, you are pretty much on your own. You can either wire the lines to specific phones or you can wire them into some sort of very expensive PBX box that will handle such things as message storage, routing, etc. If you want special feature