Yesterday we discussed about SIP Softphones and how some of these softphones are making your life easier with multiple SIP providers. It will be increasingly difficult for users as FREE VOIP becomes a key feature or its hard to manage multiple VOIP providers.
Today, we are going to discuss about Free Virtual Hosted PBX system which gives you hosted PBX features for FREE. Isn't it great to have a FREE PBX system hosted online for you and you manage it with a few clicks.
This article is sent in by our regular reader, Wilson Lacerda (from Brazil). William is expert in PBX system and runs a Orkut community in Portugese. I have added more description to the original article so it's helpful for everyone.
William has compiled some of the best FREE Virtual Hosted PBX systems list (not in any particular order):
Quick Notes:
- All of PBX services are Virtual/online: that means no need to install anything!
- All are free or offer free plan.
-Some of them are very simple (good for newbies), other more feature rich and powerful: multiple trunks/extensions, complex dial plans, callback, pstn gateway, skype/MSN/Gtalk/other integration, callme widget, etc.
-For SOHO use usually they are more reliable, easier to use, powerful and cost saving than have a PBX running in your own machine.
-With some smart settings you can combine 2 or more of them and this way have a free and very powerful virtual PBX.
1) PBXes: PBXes is a hosted PBX service which runs like a voicemail service or an email server in a data center. PBXes provider a Free and premium PBX service. The free PBX account has limitation of 10 GB traffic and up to 2 con-current calls. PBXes has gained a lot of attention lately. One of our regular reader Emoci loves it :-)
2) VoXaLot: Perhaps the most popular Free PBX system online. However after they went into premium membership, they lost a lot of users to other free pbx systems. They still offer a compact version of Free PBX. It users SIP broker service to so you can use 200+ access numbers around the world to call Voxalot and over 2000+ SIP Networks (millions of VoIP users) for free!
3) MySipSwitch: Another excellent PBX service available in the market. it allows you to route multiple SIP accounts from different suppliers through a single SIP login. Simply put this means you can channel phone calls from several different VoIP providers through to one piece of hardware like an IP phone or an ATA.Its a KISS (Keep it simple stupid) system. However lately, I have seen some internal pages throw exception errors. I really wish they could fix it. MysipSwitch has great potential.
4) LiberaILVoip: Their website is all italin. However, the best i could figure out was, they offer a commercial network by increasing your ability to communicate without any extra cost. You can enjoy all the benefits and functionality of a PBX IP specifically designed to be used by a residential needs.
5) simplyConnect: Anoother non-english provider. It's a german PBX service. I seriously couldn't figure out much. I am leaving this here for your experiment sake. Maybe our german readers can confirm if this indeed is a Free PBX service.
6) Oigaa: This really look interesting at first look and definately a good find. There are no limit on number of PBX extensions. You can map your extensions into your IP Phone and they also offer 60 minutes of free calling for new users. They are also throwing in one free DID number :-)
7) GTalk2Voip: One of my all time favorites, another Keep it simple product. One of the older bunch of online PBX system, which have stabilised over time. One of the serious missing features, people often don't understand how to get to the account page. The command line usage is complicated for below average newbie users. Hope they simply the interface. Works absolutely great and highly recommended.
8) FlashPhone: A new entrant in the industry and does the dirty work for online PBX. Nothing fancy about it just good old PBX stuff.
For more professional users who want more control over PBX, there are lots of Asterisk based ones that runs under Linux (or under Windows with a little help of VMWare or MS Virtual PC). One of the leading windows based PBX system is 3CX PBX system.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Free Virtual Hosted PBX systems
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13 comments:
two more option that can be free are net2max and junction networks onSIP.
the skype integration within oigaa is nice.
Please take a look at our offering. http://www.flatplanetphone.com. We offer more than just a PBX and you can receive a Free Test Account
Moshe
Moshe,
why not also mention the free $15.00 in calls to anyplace? is that still included in the trial account?
onsip by junction networks allows you to have extensions map to sip addresses and allows you to point any sip trunking/gateway provider at your onsip account. they also sell things like voicemail boxes, auto-attendants, etc. but with no per seat cost.
I just noticed I had been mentioned here... To be fair my affections are more with VoXalot than PBXes
That said PBXes.com do deserve respect for providing a true Asterisk Interface. Their greatest free feature at the moment being their CallThru Capability. I would just wish they were a bit more reachable,although Pascal does seem to hang around at http://www.pbxspace.com/
All in all, for anyone wanting to get started with no money upfront, VoXalot, MySipSwitch,PBXes and LiberaIlVoip in combination can provide just about all the features of Asterisk... (for those of you attached to MSN, you may want to throw GTalk2Voip.com in the mix as well)
For those wanting to take things one step further, the OnSip.com Free A la Carte service will let you host SIP for your domain, so you@YourDomain.com will be both your EMail and your SIP URI...
Hi, i'm Beniamino (Skumpic) one of the co-founder of Liberailvoip.
We would like to thank you for having mentioned Liberailvoip in your article amd we are sorry that right now we are offering only an italian GUI. We are working in a new interface with more features and an english version too. However, in order to be precise we are not a commercial project, our project is 100% free and self financied, and we are offering different services such as multi providers, voicemail, extensions, dialplans, gateways, callback and others.
CIAO
Skumpic
great stuff thanks a lot. I just signed up for some. i am running a small business abou 20 people in UK and we need something. This seems like a great list of some Free PBX and virtual hosted pbx system. Thanks
trixbox hosted ip pbx from click4pbx is my first choice to go with.
I get more free features:
http://www.click4pbx.com/hosted/index.html
I checked simplyConnect and I do not find any indication that they offer a free PBX Service.
3CX worked nicely! Thanks! Bought it online from http://www.3cxstore.com
We have launched a solution as well that is not free but it is a Full Access Hosted Asterisk PBX running 1.4 with the 2.X GUI and you get full root access with your account. Here is some information on our solution: Hosted PBX
Lauren M.
I am currently trying to find the least expensive system that can handle our needs. It's an 800# that people call and we have a total of 3 local phone #s that it will roll over to if one is busy. The average phone calls are 5-10 calls per day. There are 105 voice prompts that we need to record with 30 of those actually leading to the caller leaving a message. Once the message is left, there needs to be an alert of some type sent out to individuals either by text message, phone call, beeper, etc. These contacts will change and will be different for each mailbox message depending on which area they left their message so we'll need to constantly be changing these contact #s manually. Please let me know your very best option(s) and cheapest solutions. Thank you.
mike@autographpros.com
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