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    What is a PBX used for?

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    by ericlamda12 ·

    My organization used to have an audio system and a conferencing bridge, with analog telephone service, to allow anyone to dial into a public conferencing system, to listen to the audio inside the organization, from a phone at home. Now, to save costs, they decided to eliminate the use of a public conferencing system, and decided to just have a private conferencing system, inside the organization. To do this, they decided to get a VoIP phone system. Now, they have a cable modem for VoIP phone service, a Linksys wireless router, and a PBX. Before they got VoIP, they had 2 phone numbers, but I am not sure if they still have the same phone numbers. In this case, what is the PBX used for? Does it act as a bridge for the conferencing system, to allow people to dial in, to listen to the audio coming from the organization? Is there anything else that the PBX could be doing in this organization? Also, why is a PBX necessary?

    small business phone
    business phone system

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    • #2816550

      You sell phone services but don’t know what a PBX is for?

      by charliespencer ·

      In reply to What is a PBX used for?

      Being a spammer is bad enough. Being an ignorant one is worse. Pretending we don’t know what you are is the biggest mistake.

      • #2816540

        Good grief, indeed.

        by seanferd ·

        In reply to You sell phone services but don’t know what a PBX is for?

        PBX must be one of those brand-new, hot technologies that no one has heard of yet.

        • #2816297

          Doesn’t PBX

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to Good grief, indeed.

          Stand for [b]Poor Bloody Xeon[/b] Processors?

          Maybe I’ve been mistaken all of this time.

          Col

        • #2816289

          Heh.

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to Doesn’t PBX

          Blood on the Processors and Opened Airlocks: The HAL 9000 Story

        • #2826457

          What can I say I now believe that the HAL 9000

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to Heh.

          Is following Mr Flibber’s directions and attempting to cure the Carbon Based Life Forms addiction to Oxygen. Starting off with a short period of time depriving Oxygen from the Humans and slowly building this time up.

          [b]2 Hours Without Oxygen[/b] is always the starting point though. :^0

          Col 0:-)

        • #2826401

          Well, it’s a new stretch,

          by seanferd ·

          In reply to What can I say I now believe that the HAL 9000

          but a little hard work, and with HAL’s assistance, we may be able to cure ourselves of this damaging dependence on O2

      • #2826441

        Give him a break

        by saurondor ·

        In reply to You sell phone services but don’t know what a PBX is for?

        He’s only trying to make $5000 a month by filling simple forms

    • #2826431

      Private Branch eXchange

      by oldbaritone ·

      In reply to What is a PBX used for?

      It connects all of the desk instruments (telephones) together and gives them access to the outside lines, extension numbers, provides intercom features, paging, music-on-hold, toll restriction, access control and many other features that businesses expect from their phone system.

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