small business network

Posts: 1 · New Forum Member Joined: Dec 22, 2006 Posts: 1

I'm setting up a sales office where there will be lots of outbound calls and some incoming. I plan on having 5-6 stations. What is the best way to use Vonage for this? Is there a way to transfer calls between phones? If not that's ok but any pbx features available i would be interested in. Thanks!

Posts: 1179 · Member of the Week Joined: Feb 28, 2005 Posts: 1179

Because you want 5-6 stations with I presume 2 phone lines each? That would be you would need 5-6 adapters to make this work. If you keep the 90kbps bandwidth per line, that means it will take 90x12 = 1080 kbps of upload and download bandwidth if all the phone lines are being used. The bandwidth can be lowered to 50kbps and still have good quality on the phone.

I believe that bandwidth will be an important consideration in addition to handling all of those routers at the same time.

Secondly, PBX systems have had some success working with Vonage but apparently, they have recently decided to focus more on the residential customer. Hence, they do not support PBX systems.

Vonage can do 3 way calling and can forward calls but it does not have the ability to transfer calls like a PBX system would be able to do.

hope this helps, mundy5