VoSky

VoSKY makes Skype-certified 'Exchanges' that integrate Skype into the phone systems (PBXs) that businesses already have. This gives Exchange users new flexibility for making, receiving and routing calls within their businesses and to the outside world. We've talked about VoSKY's Exchanges on Skype Gear before in this interview and this overview. I think two of the coolest features are the ability to add a single click-to-call Skype contact on a business website so incoming Skype calls gets routed to the best/most available person and the ability to link and transfer calls between international branch offices for free using the phones you already have.

Recently VoSKY put together a new bundle that will save businesses even more than what they'll save from solely implementing Skype. It's called the VoSKY Ultimate BizPak, and it's now available in the UK.

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I had a chat with Ian Robins from VoSKY Technologies this week, and he explained a little bit more about what businesses can get out of using his company's Vosky Exchange PBX-to-Skype gateways.

My immediate thoughts were naturally centred around the cost-savings that rolling out Skype in a controlled way to all of your employees can bring. However, as Ian explains, the benefits run far further than this including opening up a whole new audience of millions of customers, as well as enabling a totally new way of interacting with those customers. Full text of the interview after the break...

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So you set up your company a few years back, invested in a whole PBX infrastructure, state-of-the-art phones, switchboards, basically the whole nine yards. And then, just as you starting depreciating all that expensive kit, along came internet telephony with its cheap calls, low overheads, integration with chat, and general Web 2.0 loveliness. What to do?

Well, VoSky are a company who have already built a reputation allowing home users to use existing kit to make Skype calls. So it is a natural extension for them to use this expertise to put together a Skype PBX gateway which offers exactly the same benefits (plus a whole lot more) to larger companies. Fast forward to yesterday's announcement of a Skype-Vosky co-branded piece of kit available in the UK & Ireland initially which does just this, providing a one-stop Skype shop for any company looking to use Skype.

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Now, boxes that allow any standard home phone to be used for making Skype phones have been around for a while. Once in place, these allow you to make and receive calls via Skype from pretty much any old tone-dial phone (provided the PC's on) just by plugging the phone and the PC into the back of the box.

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