On-premise business phone systems swap old equipment for new thinking.

Designed from the ground up to streamline the work of administrators and end users alike, the built-in unified communications (UC) capabilities of ShoreTel's business phone systems are transforming the way people work.

ShoreTel integrates communication features such as video conferencing, IM, mobility and online collaboration into a single easy-to-use IP PBX solution. Eliminating separate tools is only one way that ShoreTel's brilliantly simple VoIP phone systems help boost productivity and reduce costs.

Learn more about ShoreTel's on-premises IP PBX phone system features below.  

Virtualized Deployments.

ShoreTel applications, including call control, contact center, collaboration and system administration, can be installed on physical and/or virtual servers residing in a data center or on-premises. Centralized or distributed – ShoreTel customers can leverage the IP PBX deployment model that best suits their specific IT environment.

Built to leverage the power of VoIP telephony.

Thanks to its ingenious purpose-built single-image architecture, your premise-based ShoreTel IP phone system scales and grows across as many sites, or as many continents, as you need. From ShoreTel Director, a single browser-based interface, IT staff can manage the entire VoIP  phone system with plug-and-play ease. And because it is an open system, it integrates with popular business applications, enabling you to get more out of your most valuable assets: people and information.

Ease is built-in, too.

End users don't just get new phones on their desks: they get a brilliantly simple new way to approach their work and team collaboration: ShoreTel Communicator, an intuitive application designed to streamline communication management. Not in the office? No problem. A ShoreTel IP phone system allows users to use VoIP phones, mobile phones, or any phone connected to the public phone network as if it were their own extension, enabling them to work when, where, and how they want.

99.999% availability for 100% peace of mind.

The ShoreTel distributed architecture is incorporated into a unique on-site, appliance-based, IP PBX platform with no single point of failure: each switch and site functions as an independent call processor. In the event of wide area network (WAN) failure, the phone system continues to place and receive calls on the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).

The lowest TCO in the industry.

Our total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis tool can show you why ShoreTel's on-premises IP PBX phone system offers the lowest TCO in the industry. Many customers report a return of investment within a year. Over the long term, the unified communications tools of a ShoreTel business VoIP telephone system reduce costs company-wide by streamlining business processes, putting critical information in reach, and eliminating both missed calls and the need for expensive third-party conference services.