A traditional PBX system requires special wiring, training and capital intensive. In a few years you may have to discard the PBX and get bigger. More capacity and different equipment training equals more spending.

With Virtual PBX system can easily be reduced or otherwise provide you with a PBX system that your business needs. VoIP technology can now be remotely hosted virtual PBX system without special telephone wiring at all. The phones are connected to your network and existing data and uses your existing high-speed Internet or DSL or T1, and is just as easy if not easier than to add another computer to the existing data network. All you have to do is buy the phone (you need phones anyway) with adapters for connecting to your network and pay a low rate for bundled unlimited local and long distance and that special PBX features.

By replacing the virtual PBX / VOIP option with traditional phone service offers three potential benefits:

1) Costs may be significantly lower due to no additional charges for connections to local or long distance.
2) Companies do not have to install and maintain a PBX (private branch exchange) to provide individual telephone lines for their employees.
3) Voice communications can be integrated with other functions of existing data and future and can offer advanced features that are not available with Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS).

Lower long distance and local service charges are the most obvious benefit for consumers and businesses. What company or a company would not reduce costs while simultaneously improving operational and functional capacity. When a company moves to VOIP technology and away from the pots they can avoid the additional costs of taxes on traditional telephone service. This absence of taxation may change as the local situation, and federal governments realize that the untaxed status of VOIP could cause a significant decrease in tax revenue they received from traditional phone service.

More significant cost reductions occur in the removal of separate lines for voice and data. For example, most medium-sized companies with 20 lines on a rental T1line a PBX for voice and a separate T1 for Internet access. With Virtual PBX / VOIP, lease cost T1 can be eliminated. Smaller places may continue to use the Internet to broadband they currently use, although cable Internet is not recommended, and eliminate most, if not their traditional phone service. While cable Internet is a viable option for residential services it has drawbacks for business use.

Unlike Virtual PBX, traditional PBX equipment can be very costly and the required maintenance on site only adds to the expense. With a virtual PBX can have a phone line for each individual employee as well as features such as voicemail, conference calling, call forwarding, and many other features not included with the traditional PBX. Using VOIP technology companies can have a virtual PBX without any hardware and maintenance costs.

Not only is a Virtual PBX reduce costs for a company, but VoIP technology allows more advanced features that even the most traditional PBX sophisticated. With VoIP, the technology of an employee can access a Web interface that allows them to call forward any list of numbers from outside the site they wish. This access may even allow filtering of calls that can only or
block calls from certain numbers. The voicemail can be turned to the e-mail and voice messages and faxes can be managed with a mailbox visual as used for email.