"Cloud PBX (or cloud telephony) moves your business phone system from on-premise hardware into a provider's cloud. Instead of local PBX boxes, servers, and SIP trunks you manage, the vendor hosts call control, voicemail, routing and advanced features - and you access everything via web portals and softphones. This shift changes telecom from a capital expense and a fixed facility into an on-demand service that scales with headcount and geography. Recent market research shows rapid adoption of cloud telephony as companies seek flexible, remote-friendly communications."
"Legacy PBX platforms are appliance-centric: you buy boxes, licenses and trunks, then maintain firmware, power and on-site failover. Cloud PBX flips that model. The vendor handles availability, upgrades and carrier routing; you consume features (IVR, call queues, recordings, analytics) as services. That delivers faster feature rollouts, lower maintenance and less vendor lock-in for scaling businesses. If your company needs to add extensions overnight, swap numbers internationally, or route calls to remote agents, cloud solutions are inherently simpler to change than hardware stacks."
Cloud PBX, also called Virtual PBX in some Eastern European markets, centralizes call management by migrating business phone systems from on-premise hardware into provider clouds. Vendors host call control, voicemail, routing and advanced features accessible via web portals and softphones. The model converts telecom from capital expenditure to on-demand services that scale with headcount and geography. Cloud PBX eliminates appliance-centric maintenance, with vendors handling availability, upgrades and carrier routing while businesses consume IVR, call queues, recordings and analytics as services. This enables faster feature rollouts, lower maintenance, reduced vendor lock-in, and easier extension provisioning, international number swaps, and remote agent routing. Documenting current call flows and integrations ensures fair migration comparisons.
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