PBX Interconnectivity
500 Hosted protects your existing investment by interconnecting with existing PBX systems where necessary. This connectivity is transparent to system users with a consistent numbering plan, desk-to-desk dialling and full feature transparency. In this way 500 Hosted naturally lends itself to a phased deployment.

Self Fulfillment
The ability to administer Moves, Adds and Changes in real-time is critical in lowering the total cost of ownership of any technology platform. It is here that 500 Hosted delivers with a central browser based portal that provides a real-time view of the user resource across the system and executes Moves, Adds and Changes [MAC’s].

Scalability
500 Hosted features strong positive and negative scalability. When you remove users from traditional PBX equipment, there is no corresponding cost reduction as that equipment or licence had already been purchased. 500 Hosted enables companies to flex their workforce without having to commit to a certain capacity in advance. This strong linearity ensures you only pay for services as you consume them.

Speed of Deployment
New services or users can be added almost immediately. With premises based options there is a greater installation lead time.

Multi-Site Deployment
All users, irrespective of location and device type, are now accessing a single communications platform with all the advantages in desk-to-desk dialling, centralised Reception, free intersite calling, consistent numbering plans and uniform messaging that this entails.

Technology Life Cycle
The concept of investment protection on traditional systems has been hard to assure with any degree of certainty. The responsibility for maintaining and upgrading the network now shifts to 500 Hosted as the Service Provider.