Small Business Phone Systems

Additional Talkswitch Extensions Added

2007-10-21T21:35:00.000-04:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch Reseller, announces that Talkswitch, with the 4.10 software release, now has additional capabilities. On any Talkswitch box running 4.10 and having a ethernet port, you can now license an additional 8 IP extensions. So, a 48-CA or 480VS for example can have 8 analog or IP extensions just like before, PLUS, an additional 8 IP extensions for a total of 16 extensions on one box. Cost for the license is $474.05. You do need to download and install at least version 4.10 of the Talkswitch software to take advantage of the license. This makes for some interesting inexpensive systems, for example, a 244VS model. If you use 4 VOIP phone lines, plug 2 analog phone lines (or 2 VOIP phones lines plus an adapter), and, license the 8 additional IP extensions, this makes a single 244VS capable of 6 phone lines, and, 12 extensions. Power Systems has always been at the forefront of secure online payments on our web site. Google Checkout complements our other methods of payment, including Paypal, Secure eBill to pay via online banking, and all the standard credit cards.

For your Talkswitch needs, contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521 for details on this offer. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders. Also, see a discussion of analog vs IP phones.

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Now Accepting Google Checkout

2007-04-03T20:56:00.000-04:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch Reseller, announces that it is now accepting payments via Google Checkout. Power Systems has always been at the forefront of secure online payments. Google Checkout complements our other methods of payment, including Paypal, Secure eBill, and all the standard credit cards.

For your Talkswitch needs, contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521 for details on this offer. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Talkswitch Upgrade Promotion

2007-03-09T12:46:00.000-05:00

Until April 15 2007, you can upgrade your Talkswitch 24 (not the CA), LS, or 48-NLS models to a Talkswitch 480VS or a Talkswitch 484VS. Take advantage of special pricing and the latest features of Talkswitch phone systems. There is a lot of functionality that has been added since the older models, such a VOIP, IP extensions, emails to voicemail, integrated music on hold, more remote extensions, and much much more. The offer applies only to previously unused serial #'s, i.e., the same Talkswitch can't be upgraded more than once.

Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521 for details on this offer. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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New Talkswitch 244VS

2007-03-01T11:55:00.000-05:00

Talkswitch 244VS complements the existing analog/IP hybrid models which previously were the 284VS and 484VS. The Talkswitch 244VS has ports for 2 incoming analog phone lines, 4 VOIP trunk lines, and, up to 4 local extensions. Like all VS models, you can hook up to 4 Talkswitch models together to form a larger phone system. So, two 244VS hooked together provides 4 analog phone lines, 8 VOIP phone lines, up to 8 local extensions (analog or IP), and, up to 20 remote extensions. It is also a good model to use if you want to add VOIP capability to an existing Talkswitch system.

Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Talkswitch 24-CA On Sale Now!

2007-03-01T11:38:00.000-05:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, is announcing a Talkswitch 24-CA Sale! The 24-CA has been replaced by the 240VS. The main differences are the 240VS can use IP extensions, has a network port, and can use emailed voicemail. The 24-CA is now priced at $565.25 as is a great buy for a home office or very small office.

Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Announcing Talkswitch 240VS

2007-03-01T11:34:00.000-05:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, is announcing the availability of the Talkswitch 240VS. This new models completes the changeover to the VS line of products. The VS line is a modular system, with flexible configuration. The 240VS will replace the existing 24-CA. Talkswitch 240VS has 2 analog CO line ports, and, up to 4 analog or IP extensions. It can be expanded into a 244VS, or, a 280VS.

Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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New Talkswitch 244VS

2007-01-31T22:09:00.000-05:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, is announcing the availability of the Talkswitch 244VS. This new model lowers the entry point pricing for VOIP hybrid models. The Talkswitch 244VS complements the existing analog/IP hybrid models which previously were the 284VS and 484VS. The Talkswitch 244VS has ports for 2 incoming analog phone lines, 4 VOIP trunk lines, and, up to 4 local extensions. Like all VS models, you can hook up to 4 Talkswitch models together to form a larger phone system. So, two 244VS hooked together provides 4 analog phone lines, 8 VOIP phone lines, up to 8 local extensions (analog or IP), and, up to 20 remote extensions. It is also a good model to use if you want to add VOIP capability to an existing Talkswitch system.

Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Talkswitch Models on Sale!

2006-12-13T11:20:00.000-05:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, is announcing a sale for existing stock of the Talkswitch 48-CA and 48-CVA. These models have been replaced by the 480VS and 484VS. Essentially, the only difference is the new models are missing the serial port since most PCs do not have serial ports any more anyway. Check out the sale prices on our web site. While supplies last!

Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Talkswitch Software version 4.0 Released!

2006-11-07T17:08:00.000-05:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, is announcing the availability of software version 4.0 for Talkswitch systems. Any existing 24-CA, 48-CA, or 48-CVA can upgrade to V4.0 at no cost by downloading from the Talkswitch web site. New features include: emailed voicemail (except for 24-CA as it has no network port), analog or SIP local extensions (no SIP on a 24-CA), holiday mode (with calendar) for special call handling during holidays, the ability to secure phones and require an access code to dial out on, and more. The features added are the most common requested features by our customers. We have been testing 4.0 for several weeks and are using it on our live systems. We can load 4.0 on new 24 and 48 model systems if you so desire, systems from Talkswitch do not come pre-loaded with 4.0 at this time.

Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Announcing Secure eBIll Payments

2006-10-28T21:30:00.000-04:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, is announcing the availability of a new payment method, Secure-eBill. Do you pay your bills through your bank's secure bill pay Web site? If yes, now you can shop at Power Systems and pay the same way! No sign-up is equired and no personal or financial information is ever exchanged. Learn more about SECURE-eBill at Power Systems today! Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Talkswitch to Expand Product

2006-10-28T21:29:00.000-04:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, says a new release of Talkswitch software will be coming out that adds a number of features such a SIP extensions. We are currently testing this release, software updates as always are free to download from talkswitch.com. As details become public, we will notify you via this blog. Some new phones will also be coming out to expand the capabilities of the product line. There will be some very exciting announcements!

Power Systems recently attended the Talkswitch rewards program at the
Talkswitch headquarters in Ottawa. Awards were presented to the top
Talkswitch resellers, of which we (Power Systems Direct) are one of
them. Talkswitch believes in a close and personal relationship with
their partners and we do appreciate that.

Many of our customers continue to have success with Broadvoice and the
Talkswitch 48-CVA. It is a very powerful combination.

Thank you for your continued patronage. We look forward to doubling our
sales again this coming year! Contact Power Systems via email, at our web site, or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Announcing Extended Talkswitch Warranties

2006-05-04T17:16:00.000-04:00

Power Systems, a Platinum Talkswitch dealer at www.powersystemsdirect.com, is announcing the availability of extended Talkswitch warranties for Talkswitch systems purchased from them. These warranties extend the 1 year Talkswitch warranty to 3 years. Contact Power Systems via email or at 877-774-1521. Shopping at Power Systems is easy, secure, and convenient, and you get same day shipment for most all items and orders.

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Talkswitch 48-CVA Hybrid PBX

2006-04-13T11:08:00.000-04:00

Using a Talkswitch 48-CVA with a VOIP provider. The Talkswitch 48-CVA has the ability to connect to 4 analog phone lines, in addition to 4 VOIP trunk lines from certain providers, for a total of 8 incoming lines. Those providers currently include Broadvoice, CBeyond, Proximiti, Rubicon, and Callserve. By hooking up to 4 CVAs together, you could have a maximum in one system of 16 incoming VOIP lines, 16 incoming analog lines, 32 local extensions, and 32 remote extensions.

Cbeyond is a provider that has a lot of value in the cities they provide service in. They provide you with a T-1 line, voice service, Internet service, and more in one low price. For many small businesses, it can be cheaper to use them than have say 5-6 analog lines coming in along with separate Internet. Combined with Talkswitch integration, it can be a very cost effective solution.

If you don't need that level of service or are smaller, consider the other VOIP providers that the CVA supports. The CVA also provides another level of VOIP service - multi branch. If you are multiple locations, and want to communicate between them, a CVA is a great system. Between locations, communication can be established using VOIP and NO broadband phone company, for $0. So, say you have 5 franchise stores, and, spend a lot of time talking between them. You are likely currently using phone lines that could otherwise be used for customer calls. Say you spend 6 hours per day per store talking to other stores. That is essentially 1 phone line per store. By using a CVA in each location, you can eliminate one phone line per location and it's monthly cost.

Finally, the Talkswitch 48 CVA can also be used to communicate with remote workers using VOIP or certain VOIP gateways. We have many customers for example with remote workers in India providing tech support to US callers. Check out the Talkswitch 48-CVA if any of these needs applies to your business, and ask us about it.

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Remote Workers

2006-04-12T14:49:00.000-04:00

Power Systems is your authorized Platinum Talkswitch dealer. Many small companies these days are really work at home companies, or perhaps a company with a very small office. If that is your company, a phone system that can integrate those people into the system is a very good thing! We have customers that use Talkswitch in a variety of ways with remote workers. One example is a company, perhaps a landscape company. Obviously, most of the time, workers will be in the field. Instead of giving out multiple numbers to customers, you can have an integrated system where they still call the office number only. From the office, a person could transfer the caller to the remote worker if need be, or, if the caller knew their extension or used dial by name, they could reach them directly. This avoids giving out your cell phone or home phone number, and, also provides a more integrated solution instead of a hodgepodge of phone numbers.

We have customers using this capability with Vonage. Using Vonage, they use the Vonage call transfer feature which allows the call to be disconnected from the office once the call is transferred. This is good for you as this means the customer can continue to talk to the remote worker, and not use any of your incoming phone lines. In a company such as we are discussing here, this can be a tremendous savings as now you might have 4 remote people talking to customers, and, zero incoming phone lines actually busy, saving phone lines and therefoire monthly cost. The same can be done with many phone companies as well, they call this feaure something like transfer and clear.

Talkswitch provides many features for companies with remote workers, there are numerous ways of setting these up, many variations including VOIP. Talk to us about your needs.

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New Talkswitch Software Version 3.24

2006-04-12T02:00:00.000-04:00

Talkswitch version 3.24 adds a number of new features to the full Talkswitch product line, Talkswitch 24-CA, Talkswitch 48-CA, and, Talkswitch 48-CVA. New features include Automatic Route Selection, Call Block, VOIP Trunk connection with no adapter to Broadvoice, Cbeyond, Proximiti, Callserve. Call logging is also improved. This is a great new release building on previous releases which added features such as ability to play music on hold from memory without any external player. Remember to visit Power Systems for all your small business phone system needs!

Power Systems also includes with all shipments a CD full of training, phone setup guides, VOIP info, useful message on hold recordings and more. Power Systems is one of the largest Talkswitch dealers in the world. Our website should prove to you we know a lot about these systems.

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Small Business Phone Systems

2005-10-13T14:39:00.000-04:00

When you hear the term Small Business Phone System. it can mean a variety of things. Traditional vendors use it to mean a scaled down version of their larger phone system. Yet, they find it difficult to even imagine a company with perhaps only one employee, the owner! So, when they say they have a small business phone system, it isn't. Then, you have other products that claim to be phone systems, but, are nothing more than glorified multi-line phones. Finally, you have the all VOIP players (voice over IP), which is beyond the ability of most small businesses without technical experience. Also, VOIP while of acceptable performance in some areas of the country, is just awful in others. We personally don't think it wise to be saying "can you repeat that" to a customer, or a potential customer. It wastes their time, and yours. Actually, there is one more category, those run on a PC, sometimes, a Linux pc. These are suitable for some techno-savvy small businesses, but not useful for the masses. Anyone who uses a PC knows what it means to have another box you have to manage. I personally have been a PC admin for many years in the past, working with multiple OSes. While not a problem for me, believe me, it is for the majority of small businesses in this country.

So, are there phone systems made specifically for small businesses, as small a one person even? Yes. There are a number that can actually work for small businesses or home based businesses. We sell the at least 4 major players in this market, Talkswitch, Bizfon, Venture IP, Intellitouch ITC-420 KSUless system, and others. There really isn't any decent competition for these systems. The Talkswitch scales from 2 line in 4 local phone box, to, 16 lines in and 32 local phones. Bizfon scales from 6 line in and 8 local phones, to 24 lines in with 32 local phones. Venture IP scales from 1 t- 40 lines in, and, 1-200 extension. Talkswitch also adds the ability to use VOIP in a multi-location environment. While we still believe VOIP is *far* from ready for prime time, it is clear this will not always be that way. For now, we see no reason why multi-branch type calls cannot be services from VOIP if at all of an acceptable quality. It's not the same as exposing customers to break ups and jitter. Venture IP uses VOIP for all local phone traffic, this is a great use of VOIP. The ITC-420 doesn't have any central system at all, so, is naturally the easiest of all. It can handle up to 15 lines and 12 stations with a fair amount of functionality.

These phone systems differ in numerous ways. But, they have one thing in common - they are stand-alone boxes who don't take any effort to keep running. Any phone system has to be set up, but, these are the least painful systems on the market.

So, if you are one of the millions of small buisinesses in this country, checkout these fully functional phone systems. See Talkswitch, Bizfon, Venture IP, Intellitouch ITC-420 KSU-Less, and Help with Picking a System. Fully loaded with features a really small business needs, like, the ability to connect our cell or home phone to the phone system for the convenience of your customers. And contact us if you have any additional thoughts or needs.

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October 13, 2005 - Power Systems is now a platinum level dealer with Talkswitch, their highest dealer rating! We also now carry a simple KSU-less phone system with no central box if you do not need a lot of features in your phone system. Finally, our Intellitouch On Hold Plus music on hold series has gone down in price. Talkswitch has come out with a new software version available for download from their web site. They typically come out with new features at least twice a year. Software version 3.21 new features include auto line calibration to optimize incoming line settings, the ability to load from a wav file for voicemail greetings, firmware updates over IP, USB support, "0" options for voicemail, "call waiting" which is similar to call queue for local extension, the ability to light any phones voicemail light for any mailbox, the ability to disable the "one moment please" prompt, separate notification settings for voicemail via modes, and more. This update will not work with the old NLS or old Talkswitch 24 models as they have no more memory available. However, it works with all CA and CVA models.