Hosted PBX vs. A Traditional PBX

Hosted PBX is a major step ahead of traditional phone systems. Hosted PBX requires no support or maintenance and delivers all the features of a full-featured in-house system. It is completely scalable, and reliable. Click here to see a diagram of Hosted PBX vs. traditional PBX systems in a multi-location setting.

Differences between Hosted PBX and traditional PBX systems.

	Hosted PBX	Traditional PBX
Up-Front Costs	Negligible	High
Support Costs	Support Costs	Support Costs
Maintenance Costs	Maintenance Costs	Maintenance Costs
Inter-branch Calling Costs	Inter-branch Calling Costs	Inter-branch Calling Costs
Route calls to any phone	Route calls to any phone	Route calls to any phone
Supports distributed employees	Supports distributed employees	Supports distributed employees
Advanced features (e.g. voicemail to email)	Advanced features (e.g. voicemail to email)	Advanced features (e.g. voicemail to email)
Scalability	Scalability	Scalability
Call capacity	Call capacity	Call capacity
Full feature set	Full feature set	Full feature set
ACD queuing	ACD queuing	ACD queuing
Distributed administration	Distributed administration	Distributed administration