{"id":33962,"date":"2011-06-28T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=33962"},"modified":"2016-12-08T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T21:51:12","slug":"virtual-office-application-for-onsip-and-polycom-ip-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/virtual-office-application-for-onsip-and-polycom-ip-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Office Application for OnSip and Polycom IP Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica&#8217;s &#8220;Ask Ars&#8221; feature answers a <a title=\"Ask Ars: Help! I need VoIP service for my virtual office!\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2011\/06\/ask-ars-what-small-business-voip-service-is-right-for-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">readers plea for help\u00a0implementing a business VoIP service<\/a> for his virtual home office.<\/p>\n<p>Ars Technica explains their use of OnSIP plus <a title=\"Polycom IP Phones\" href=\"\/manufacturer\/polycom\/phones\">Polycom IP phones\u00a0with such exceptional conference call clarity<\/a> they joke about &#8220;holding staff calls just to enjoy the experience.&#8221;\u00a0 And when it comes to finding a a VoIP service provider, you&#8217;re in luck, there&#8217;s too many to choose from however:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bad news is that finding a decent VoIP service for your startup or business is a lot like buying a new cellphone. There are lots of options to choose from, and with a myriad of add-ons and pricing plans, it can be difficult to tell them apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>It&#8217;s Your Call<\/h2>\n<p>In this nicely detailed insight, Ask Ars\u00a0provides a starting point and a few service comparisons to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A PBX Primer<\/strong>:\u00a0 In traditional offices a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) handles all incoming, outgoting, and internal calls.\u00a0 \u00a0Routing VoIP calls through the internet allows any employee with an online connection to become part of your internal, virtual\u00a0PBX network.<\/li>\n<li><strong>OnSIP<\/strong>:\u00a0 This popular service offers both virtual PBX and VoIP functionality with (3) pricing tiers for SoHo, Small Business, and Medium Business.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aptela and 8&#215;8<\/strong>:\u00a0 Similar to OnSIP but different, these two calling packages are outlined.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phonebooth<\/strong>:\u00a0 A newer VoIP service from Bandwidth.com, this flat-rate montly fee service is examined.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Via <a title=\"Ask Ars: Help! I need VoIP service for my virtual office!\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/business\/2011\/06\/ask-ars-what-small-business-voip-service-is-right-for-me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica&#8217;s &#8220;Ask Ars&#8221; feature answers a readers plea for help\u00a0implementing a business VoIP service for his virtual home office. Ars Technica explains their use of OnSIP plus Polycom IP phones\u00a0with such exceptional conference call clarity they joke about &#8220;holding staff calls just to enjoy the experience.&#8221;\u00a0 And when it comes to finding a a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-voip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194943,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33962\/revisions\/194943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}