All of the business telephone solutions mentioned above are provided as web-hosted services. This means that all calls are digital and routed across the world across the Internet and the whole system is run within remote data centres and managed within through a web portal. To ordinary users, however it will still function in the same way as a normal phone system.
Hosted voice services like this were around for some time before everyone started talking about ‘the cloud’ but in effect, hosted VoIP is cloud-based service. It runs from the service provider’s own servers, so it is in effect, a in the cloud-based service. To make use of it, you simply access a web portal and log-in. From that point on, you will be able to make and receive calls and access all the features offered by the service to which you have subscribed.
Toople PLC (LON:TOOP) offers business broadband, fiber, Ethernet first mile and Ethernet data, business mobile phones, cloud PBX and SIP Trunking, and traditional services. Toople works with the big players in the market such as Vodafone & BT.