Voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, phone systems can provide a wealth of features and leverage the most current telephone technology to give your business a competitive edge. Proprietary business phone systems can be expensive to install and maintain. If you are technically proficient and want to save money, you can install your own phone system. Many types of business phone systems are available.
Choose your turnkey phone system and compatible VoIP telephones to be used as extensions. "Turnkey" means that all the required software comes preinstalled in the system and configured with the supplied hardware. The system merely needs to be physically connected with all the phone extension handsets to become fully functional.
Install additional data cables if needed. You can hire a professional data cable installer, or do this job yourself. Either way, for every telephone extension, you'll need a data port cabled from the extension to your phone system. Once the cabling and data ports are in place, plug in the telephone extension units using Cat 5 data patch cables.