AVAD Technologies, a New York based company, is offering ‘hosted’ IP PBX services for businesses.

Hosted IP PBXs mean that the customer has no need to purchase and install potentially costly servers and associated hardware to run their IP PBX. The IP PBX is instead hosted by the service provider (in this case AVAD) who colocate the neccesary hardware, data connectivity and telephone lines in a data center.

An advantage of this approach is that teleworkers can communicate with the PBX at potentially higher data rates than one located behind a normal ADSL or Cable link. Further, having the PBX hosted at a major data center may improve performance features such a latency and throughput for large, distributed organisations.

voip-weblog.com notes that voice over ip hardware manufacturer Grandstream has released it’s new all in one VoIP PBX.

The Grandstream GXE502x moniker actually refers to one of two new products, the GXE 5024 and the GXE 5028. Both are IP PBXs, the 5024 having 4 analog extensions while the 5028 has 8. Both designs allow for 100 registered VoIP accounts, 50 simultaneous calls (presumably dependent on bandwidth) and a 20 seat conference bridge. Flash memory storage is utilised for voicemail.

Further comment at tmcnet