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Hosted Vs Premises VoIP Michigan

Traditionally, enterprises preferred premise-based equipment because of the control and possible long-term cost savings that such an arrangement afforded them. For businesses that don't depend on the ability to quickly manage and configure their telephony system, A Hosted Voice over IP solution offers the advantages over traditional premise-based PBX with out the complexities and expense of managing the equipment.

1. Local Companies

2. Hosted PBX vs. Premise-Based PBX

3. Installation

4. Maintenance

5. Featured Local Company

1 . Local Companies

PBX.NET Corporation
866-342-5864
37424 Hills Tech Drive
Farmington Hills, MI

Borderless Communications
(248) 230-4667
7 W. Square Lake Road
Bloomfield Hills, MI

BitWare Technologies
586-350-7221
11502 Helen Drive
Warre, MI

Allcomm Communications
248-264-4691
29665 W.K. Smith Dr.
New Hudson, MI

Converged Solutions
866-320-3100
2682 Garfield Road, North Suite 21
Traverse City, MI

Appia Communications
877-277-4297
1030 Hastings St
Traverse City, MI

Trowbridge Solutions
734-945-3698
1380 E Jefferson
Detroit, MI

NuWave Technology Partners
269-342-4400
2906 Business One Drive
Kalamazoo, MI

ASM Technology Solutions, LLC
586-498-8300
25822 Schoenherr Rd
Warren, MI

2 . Hosted PBX vs. Premise-Based PBX

The comparison between hosted PBX services and premise-based PBX services can be separated into four categories: Installation, Maintenance, Configuration Management, and Customized Application Development.

3 . Installation

Hosted solutions are less likely to have post-installation problems because pre-installation site reviews are usually conducted by experts. Simply through a lack of experience, errors can be made in the course of a company's self-appraisal process. Further, hosted solutions require fewer customer premise elements. The combination of expert site reviews and less complex equipment installation can mean smoother transitions and decreases the need for trouble-shooting.

Because there is less need for customer participation in a hosted solution, hosted providers can provide a project time-frame with a good degree of accuracy. This benefits both customers and service providers by removing uncertainty in the deployment schedule.

Hosted services can be deployed on a line-by-line basis, which means that they are easily expandable. They allow for flexibility during the transition from premise-based equipment to a hosted service because they can co-exist with previously existing premise equipment. This means that an enterprise doesn't need to transition all of its equipment at the same time, which would usually be the case with a premise-based PBX. In this way, hosted transitions can be scheduled and implemented to best fit an enterprise's schedule.

In a hosted solution, initial capital expenditures are lower because the amount of customer-premise equipment is reduced.

Overall, the installation/implementation costs for hosted solutions are almost always lower than for premise based solutions. However, because hosted solutions do have recurring fees, the total cost of ownership on a multi-year basis should be evaluated to determine if this is creates an actual net saving over the planned operational life of the system.

4 . Maintenance

With a hosted solution, any problems that occur can almost always be fixed more remotely. Premise-based solutions often require a truck-roll (on-site visit) to the premise, a requirement that introduces a period of delay in any trouble-shooting endeavor. Hosted solutions circumvent this delay and can reduce down-time from a potential four hour minimum (which is often the case in a "truck-roll" scenario), to a few minutes. Further, hosted solutions usually have 24x7 monitoring and management. To get that same level of service in a premise-based solution can require a higher (and therefore more expensive) service level agreement.

Most maintenance contracts for hosted solutions are based around per-seat licenses, and only charge for seats in use. This contrasts with premise-based solutions, which often charge "per-active-port" fees. In the hosted situation, a customer only pays for what they use; in the premise-based solution, a customer pays for everything that they could use. The latter situation opens the door for increased costs.

Hardware and software upgrades can be managed more easily via a hosted solution than a premise-based solution. The vendor manages the upgrade and rolls it out once it is ready, making for a pain-free transition. On the other hand, hosted providers, while motivated to stay up-to-date, cannot roll out an improvement as fast as a premise-based solution where the update can be driven internally.

With a hosted solution, operational expenditures are made more predictable, which in turn aids in planning cash flow. With premise-based solutions, operational expenditures while usually lower can also spike unpredictably when issues occur.

Maintenance issues can be more easily and efficiently addressed in hosted solutions because the majority of equipment is centrally located. A premises based solution could achieve the same service speed if it maintained a set of on-site technicians, but the cost of that scenario would make this solution non-economical.

5 . Featured Local Company

PBX.NET Corporation

866-342-5864
37424 Hills Tech Drive
Farmington Hills, MI
http://www.pbx.net

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