VIP PBXTM Features
Designed for K-12 and scalable to support multi-site districts VIP PBX simplifies the process of switching from Traditional to IP Telephony services. VIP PBX offers a comprehensive set of communications services including voice, switchboard, call distribution, voicemail, unified messaging and advanced collaboration services.

The VIP PBX runs on a common SIP based IP Communications platform which provides a common subscriber database and presence information for all the communications Applications. Today, VIP Tone offers IP Telephony, IP Messaging, IP Conferencing and IP Contact Center applications. VIP Tone's Convergence Center client acts as the dash board for users providing access to IP Telephony, IP Messaging, and IP Conferencing applications. The VIP PBX solution runs on a Linux based commercial platform designed for large-scale enterprise-wide IP telephony service.
IP Telephony Module
The IP Telephony Module contains an extensive list of calling features including:
- Operator or Auto-attendant Answer
- Extension Management and Grouping
- Group Staged Calling or ACD
- Automated Directory Search
- Intelligent Call Routing
- Web-based Administration
- Unified Voice Messaging (web, email, phone)
- Professional Greeting Services
- CLASS PBX Services (Caller ID, Call Waiting etc.)
IP Messaging Module
Extremely flexible, the IP Messaging module provides many standard features for voice, fax, and email messaging including:
Voice Mail - IP voicemail system lowers costs while providing seamless migration from legacy voicemail systems.
Find Me/Follow Me - Find me/follow me services enable enterprise users to personalize the way and the device on which they receive calls, greatly enhancing their productivity and increasing customer satisfaction.
Unified Messaging - Unified messaging services enable users to integrate voice mail and fax mail into the e-mail messaging system, letting enterprises configure a single in-box for fax mails and giving users the flexibility to reroute faxes to e-mail, a local fax machine, or printer.
In addition to traditional phone access or dialing, the VIP PBX service can be accessed from your PC with our convergence client. The convergence client uses the computer sound card, microphone and speakers in your PC to transmit voice over IP to any destination number of your choice. In addition to the PBX features described above, our PC based client offers instant messaging, video conferencing, web collaboration, desktop sharing, contact center and caller queuing to improve communications within your user community.
What Makes VIP PBX Unique?
With many options for deploying VoIP services in the market today, VIP Tone has continued to focus on the needs of the K-12 market in delivering a unique solution with the following key features for our customers:
- Immediate emergency access. Combine your current telephony system and Internet protocol network into a single, reliable IP network infrastructure, integrated with PSTN services from local carriers to bring you continued access to 911 emergency call response services.
- Software as a service. Keeps hardware costs low - and eliminates software costs, integration and maintenance services. Pay for communications services - not equipment and software.
- Innovative K-12 Convergence Solutions. VIP PBX can be integrated with your school's SIS and HR systems, delivering a true convergence solution. IP Phones can securely access or capture school data, while the school management system can integrate seamless voice communications to all stakeholders.
- Affordability. Our low-cost Starter Bundle includes the pre-provisioned plug-and-play IP Phones and Edge Servers, and you pay monthly for the service.
- Open Standards. Unlike the competition, VIP PBX technology is based on the open Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard, allowing schools to preserve their current investment in any SIP-enabled IP access devices. Schools can also leverage their investment in PC-based Soft Phones.
- Reliability. Multiple layers of network and system redundancy offer failover resilience and high availability.
- Scalable. Scale up from a single school with 25 extensions to an entire school district with over 10,000 extensions-all hosted on a single VIP PBX system.
- Total Cost of Ownership. Reduce your Total Cost of Ownership and generate a Return on Investment that you could put back into teaching and learning.
- Starter Bundles. Minimize your risk by taking advantage of a 30-day trial program and low-cost Starter Bundles, which include plug-and-play IP Phones and Edge Servers, in lieu of a bigger investment in a new system purchase that may or may not work for you.
Education Specific Applications
In addition to offering the expected features of VoIP telephony we will provide a safe and secure environment for collaboration among trusted members of the educational community through our educational portal. We also incorporate educational specific enhanced services that leverage the convergence of voice, data and content over the IP network. These enhanced applications include:
- Electronic Hall Pass
- Homework Hotline Service
- Automated parent notification for attendance and emergency messages
- Unified messaging in a safe environment
- Wireless IM campus support
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