Earl Rusnak VoIP vs PBX: The Difference, Explained Without the Jargon Most people use "VoIP" and "PBX" like they are competing products. They are not. PBX is the call-handling brain. VoIP is the transport method. You can have a PBX that runs over copper (old-school) or ... May 28, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Cost-Benefit Analysis: VoIP for Small Businesses Small businesses get pitched VoIP every week. The pitch is usually the same: cheaper, more features, works from anywhere. Some of that is true. Some of it depends on your setup. This is an honest cost... May 22, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Microsoft Teams Calling with VoIP International: How the Integration Works If your team already lives in Microsoft Teams for chat and meetings, adding PSTN calling inside the same app is the obvious next step. You stop running two clients, you stop training people on a separ... May 15, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Pro Mobile: One Phone, Two Numbers, No App to Install If your team is split between a desk phone they ignore and a personal cell they use for everything, you have two problems. The desk phone is paying for capacity nobody uses, and the personal cell is l... May 13, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Digital Faxing with vFAX: Honest Buyer's Guide Digital fax isn't new and it isn't complicated. You get a fax number, you send and receive documents over the internet instead of a copper line, and the machine in the corner goes away. The reason peo... May 9, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Moving from Analog PBX to Hosted VoIP: What Actually Changes Your old PBX is a beige box in a closet with a punchdown block, a battery backup nobody has tested in years, and a tech who shows up at $150/hr when something breaks. Moving to hosted VoIP is not a so... Apr 30, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak vFAX for Healthcare: HIPAA-Compliant Faxing Without the Machine The fax machine in your records room is costing you more than you think. Between the analog line, toner, paper, jammed pages someone has to re-feed, and the staff time spent walking documents around t... Apr 26, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak eSIM and Pro Mobile: What It Means for Business Cell Phones eSIM stopped being exotic — iPhone 14 and later in the U.S. don't even have a physical SIM slot. For business phones, that's a useful change, because it means you can provision a business line on an e... Apr 11, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Ring All vs. Hunt Groups vs. Round-Robin: Pick the Right One "Ring all" sounds great in a brochure: every phone rings, somebody answers, customer is happy. In practice it works for some teams and creates chaos for others. We deploy ring groups every week on our... Apr 2, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak Switching to vFAX: What Healthcare and Legal Firms Get The fax machine in the corner of your practice is costing you a phone line, paper, toner, and the time someone spends walking documents from the machine to the chart. It also fails HIPAA audits more o... Apr 1, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak CRM Integration That Actually Works: Real Integrations, Real Workflows Most phone systems claim CRM integration. What they usually mean is they can send a webhook to Zapier. That is not an integration. A real integration screen-pops the customer record when the phone rin... Mar 27, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
Earl Rusnak PBX Extensions for Remote Teams: What Actually Works Your remote team is missing calls. Voicemails sit unread for days. The salesperson working from home gives clients her cell number because the office line never finds her. That's the problem cloud PBX... Mar 21, 2024 VoIP International Blog Posts
