Web-based PBX and VoIP Phone Systems

I used to work at Aptela, which has a nifty, robust, and fairly affordable Web-based PBX product. I've used it at 3 startups and have been happy with the performance.

On the other hand, they also have a VoIP offering that is still unstable and that most customers still won't recommend. To be fair, this is primarily due to the fact that there is still no reliable VoIP backbone vendor for the SMB market. Regardless, does anyone have any other suggestions?

Tags: aptela, pbx, phone, voip

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Permalink Reply by Michael Mealling on January 23, 2008 at 4:51pm: I've been using RingCentral for a while and I've been happy....; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Guillermo Söhnlein on February 15, 2008 at 11:08am: Here's another one that was just recommended to me: GotVMail.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jeff Miller on February 29, 2008 at 2:39pm: VOIP is unstable past about 12 lines unless you have a lot of network infrastructure.

VOIP is good for a 3-8 person operation or as an add on to a regular PBX (for work at home or work on the road).

I use PBNext myself (mostly for the 866 number) but I wouldn't try to run an operation of more than 8 people on it unless I was in the same building as my ISP.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Martin on May 12, 2008 at 8:41pm: Check out Nuvio.com. A close friend uses it for business with no issues at all.

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Permalink Reply by Andy Forbes on May 14, 2008 at 9:12pm: I am rolling out phone.com at my current place of employment, and am fairly impressed. It beats the heck of the product I used at my previous company.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andy Forbes on June 19, 2008 at 2:55pm: I'm a month in using phone.com, and I have to say I am very impressed. While it takes a little bit of work to get comfortable configuring it, and there are a couple of minor quirks, it is hands down the best soft PBX I've ever used.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by alex steve on January 15, 2010 at 10:03pm: my company is looking for some pbx providers looks like the current trend is web based pbx
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Permalink Reply by Steve Manors on February 26, 2010 at 3:03pm: I can recommend hosted PBX. It's worked pretty well for me in the past.; ▶ Reply to This