VoIP telephone systems

Atomik.biz provides fully-featured business-quality VoIP telephone systems. We offer everything from a single VoIP phone to a full-function call centre PBX with Interactive Voice Menus (IVM), remote extensions and call queues. We also provide professional bespoke messages for voice menus, on-hold and marketing purposes.

VoIP systems will run On-Premise, in your own data centre environment or cloud-based. We support handsets from Cisco, Granstream, Fanvil, Yealink, Snom, Polycom and Htek.

What is VoIP?

Voice over IP (VoIP) is a technology that allows the Internet to carry voice conversations. This technology has several advantages over standard telephone systems. VoIP is much cheaper as there is no need to pay line rental on numerous phone lines, and call charges are less expensive than landlines, especially overseas. Phone numbers are independent of physical phone lines and can move with the business. Remote users can have an extension on the company phone system from anywhere with a reliable Internet connection.

3CX Phone System

The 3CX VoIP telephone system is an open standard Windows-based IP PBX that provides superior features and flexibility at a far lower cost and replaces traditional PBX hardware phones. It supports popular SIP phones, VoIP providers, and PSTN lines. 3CX uses a web-based management console that makes it easy to configure, eliminating the need for expensive onsite maintenance.

Softphone options

Free client software is available for Windows, Mac, IOS, and Android and makes call control and conferencing simple. Users can manage their extension and their calls with just a few mouse clicks and avoid using a cryptic phone interface.

What’s more, you can log in to 3CX from any computer or smartphone to see the status and presence of other users from your office and any bridged offices around the world.

3CX VoIP telephone System includes an iPhone and Android client that allows you to make and receive office calls on your IOS or Android device from anywhere. Save on telecommunications costs by making internal office calls free of charge, and keep your mobile number confidential by using the office caller ID. Never miss that all-important call by answering calls made to your office extension from anywhere.

Scalable license options

The 3CX Phone System is available in several editions based on the number of simultaneous calls (internal & external) your company makes. Upgrades are activated with a license key and there is no need to reinstall the 3CX Phone System. Find a detailed feature comparison table here.

3CX works with various handsets from Cisco, Fanvil, Grandstream, Htek, Polycom, Snom, and Yealink and even supports door entry systems.

For more detail about the benefits of 3CX.

Single extension VoIP solutions

Business startups and home-based businesses need a phone solution that is simple and costs effective.

The simplest solution is to have a single VoIP phone connecting to a low-cost VoIP service which can include bundled calls. Buying a used phone brings the cost down even more. If the business is likely to grow, making the right choices at this point will make the solution more scalable for business growth. Planning for growth means buying phones and VoIP services that are likely compatible with future systems. Atomik.biz advises on all aspects of business phone system design.

We have several cost options, including unlimited calls to all 01, 02 and 07 numbers for £15 per month. You read that right, unlimited calls to UK mobiles starting 07. If you can find a better deal, we would like to hear about it.

Draytek Voice products

The Vigor BX2000 is a business-class router that supports all the facilities of the class-leading Vigor 2862 series routers. It also has a built-in VoIP telephone system.

This device is the heart of an integrated phone system. It is also very cost-effective as no ongoing subscriptions and software updates are free. It can support up to 50 VoIP extensions that can be local or remote. It provides Voicemail, call queues, and interactive voice menus. It even has an analogue port which is useful for a fax machine, PDQ machine, or analogue phone.

Your Vigor BX2000 supports the most popular IP phones, including VTech, Snom, Grandstream, Yealink, and Gigaset.

A Vigor BX2000 is a cost-effective alternative to a cloud-based VoIP phone system.

The VigorSwitch P2280x is a 24-port rack-mountable managed Power Over Ethernet (POE) Gigabit switch. It is ideal for networks with large numbers of POE devices like VoIP handsets or wireless access points and security cameras. Being Gigabit and POE makes it the ideal switch for small networks with a mix of equipment.

Quality of service

A well-designed business telephone system will ensure the best performance out of VoIP. This design will include fault tolerance, a minimum of two Internet connections will maintain both VoIP and other Internet services if a line fails. Quality of Service (QoS) will prioritise VoIP traffic so that voice will not become broken or jittery if a link becomes busy. Planning available bandwidth carefully will give an excellent quality service. Last but not least is porting of numbers. It is possible to keep your terrestrial numbers and port them over to your VoIP system. Porting numbers requires planning to minimise downtime. Testing is essential with VoIP to ensure the system performs according to the design.

The VoIP market is competitive and price-driven, resulting in too many providers chasing too little business. The inevitable result is that some VoIP providers have gone out of business or been taken over by larger ones. For this reason, don’t buy VoIP services on price alone. The service level might be the reason for the price.

Business Telephone System design and support

Many VoIP phone system providers sell their products to customers without considering the implications to the customer’s business. As Telephony, Internet connections, email and general networking become more integrated; planning becomes even more critical.

Once a customer chooses a VoIP telephone system, Atomik.biz will plan how to integrate it into the customer’s network to get the best out of it and to ensure no unintended effects on the existing systems.

Aspects of the design include:-

• Ensuring existing internal systems that are available to the Internet still work correctly. This might include web servers, email systems, digital video recorders and file and print services.
• If the existing system has multiple Internet connections, how will this be best used to make the new system fault-tolerant
• Integrating existing VoIP investment into the new system where possible.
• Planning to resolve problems when they occur.

Systems bought from sellers who don’t even visit the customer and who send the phones and expect the customer to self-install are unlikely to enhance the business. The real value of any new system is how it is programmed to work for the business, and the business gets the best out of it.