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We sell a variety of leading analog and hybrid VOIP phone systems and PBX systems in the Small Business Phone System, Medium Business, and SOHO (small office or home PBX) marketplaces. Our SMB PBX equipment is easy to set up and use! This page is dedicated to helping you with the information you need to make the right choice for your business, we are a leading PBX vendor, we sell solutions! Please contact us if you have any additional questions. The ratings below on the PBX switches (except for those questions dealing with numbers supported such a local extensions) are our subjective ratings of the functionality, 1 being worst, 10 being best. N/A means it does not support that feature.
| Feature | Talkswitch |
Bizfon |
Venture IP |
MicroSMB Plain / Voicemail |
MacroSMB Plain / Voicemail |
| Alarm Clock |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Answering Machine Emulation |
N/A |
N/A |
10 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Auto Answer (Extension) |
10(A) |
5 |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Auto Attendant |
10 |
5 |
5 |
9/9 |
9/9 |
| Busy Queueing |
8 |
5 |
5 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Accounting |
2, 7(N) |
N/A |
N/A |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| Call Appearances |
2(A), 10(S), 10(C) |
7 |
7 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Back a Busy Number |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Bridge |
10 |
7 |
N/A |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| Call Cascade |
10 |
4 |
4 |
9/9 |
9/9 |
| Call Distribution Methods |
5 |
5 |
5 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Monitor |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Park |
8 |
5 |
5 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Pickup |
8 |
8 |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Priority |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Call Record |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A /10 |
N/A /10 |
| Call Screening |
8 |
N/A |
N/A |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| Central Phone Directory |
10(G) |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| Centrex Features |
10 |
N/A |
N/A |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| CO Line Visibility |
2, 10(C) |
7 |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| CO Lines per Box (Analog, VOIP) |
2-4,0-4 |
5,0 |
4,0 |
16/16,0 |
112/112,0 |
| CO Lines Maximum (Analog, VOIP) |
2-16,0-16 |
24,0 |
40,0 |
24/24,0 |
208/208,0 |
| Conference Calling |
5(A), 10(S) |
8 |
7 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Cordless Phone Integration |
5 |
5 |
3 |
5/5 |
5/5 |
| Day, Night, Holiday Settings |
10 |
5 |
6 |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| Dial by Name |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Distinctive Ring Detection |
10 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
| Ease of Configuration |
8 |
7 |
8 |
10/10 * |
10/10 * |
| Email Voicemail |
10(N) |
N/A |
Yes with add-on |
N/A |
N/A |
| Extension State Visibility |
2, 10(C) |
7 |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| External Paging |
10 |
10 |
10 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Fax Integration |
10 |
8 |
3 |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| Feature and Software Upgrades |
10 |
1 |
7 |
5/5 |
5/5 |
| Flexible Numbering |
N/A |
1 |
1 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Internal Paging |
10(A) |
6 |
9 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Least Cost Routing, Route Selection |
7 |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Local Extensions per Box |
4-16 |
8 |
200 |
24/24 |
72/72 |
| Local Extensions Maximum |
4-64 |
32 |
200 |
36/36 |
144/144 |
| Message Waiting Indication |
10 |
10 |
10 |
N/A /10 |
N/A /10 |
| Multi Branch |
10(N) |
N/A |
2 |
N/A |
N/A |
| Multi Tenant |
7 |
10 |
8 |
9/9 |
9/9 |
| Music on Hold |
10 |
8 |
8 |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| Name Labelling |
2(A), 10(S) |
2 |
7 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Operator Console |
10(C) |
3 |
N/A |
9/9 |
9/9 |
| Outside Line Access Restriction |
10 |
N/A |
10 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Pager Notification of Voicemail |
10 |
10 |
N/A |
N/A /10 |
N/A /10 |
| PC Based Configuration |
10 |
N/A |
N/A |
6/6 |
6/6 |
| Phone Cost |
10 |
6 |
3 |
5/5 |
5/5 |
| Phone Features |
8(A), 9(S) |
7 |
6 |
9/10 |
9/10 |
| Plain Phone Support |
9 |
7 |
N/A |
6/6 |
6/6 |
| Remote Call Forwarding |
10 |
8 |
8 |
7/9 |
7/9 |
| Remote System Management |
2, 10(N) |
2 |
2 |
9/9 |
9/9 |
| Remote Voicemail Notification |
10 |
0 |
0 |
0/9 |
0/9 |
| Ring Groups |
9 |
9 |
10 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Security Restrictions |
9 |
2 |
4 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Silent Monitoring of other peoples calls |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Support of your System |
9 |
9 |
8 |
8/8 |
8/8 |
| System Speed Dial List |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Toll Restriction |
9 |
N/A |
10 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Unsupervised Conference |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Virtual Extensions |
5 |
9 |
5 |
10/10 |
10/10 |
| Voice Mailbox Functions |
8 |
8 |
8 |
N/A /9 |
N/A /9 |
| VOIP External |
9(N) |
N/A |
2 |
N/A |
N/A |
| VOIP Internal |
10(S) |
N/A |
10 |
N/A |
N/A |
| Warranty |
1 Year |
1 Year |
1 Year |
1 Year |
1 Year |
* - Only if you buy the remote configuration kit whereby the factory will set your system up, otherwise, we rate this a 2/2
(A) - Analog Phones
(C) - With optional attendant console license
(G) - Grandstream GXP-2000 only, uses XML
(N) - Talkswitch models with network port only
(S) - SIP Phones |
