At Last – Phone Services Designed Specifically for Your Small Business

For the small business owner, phone systems and related voice and data services can be synonymous with frustration. From purchase and setup to the waiting and cost for "someone else" to perform service changes, the entire process is fraught with excessive cost, delay, and confusion. BluArc offers services that businesses can easily manage for themselves, and save money doing it.

Taking the Complexity Out of Communicating
Built to replace aging key systems and PBX's, BluArc Concourse delivers a powerful suite of communication services designed specifically to address the needs of small and mid-sized businesses. Concourse is a software-based services platform that provides the same features as traditional phone systems, without being physically located at your site. Hosted in BluArc’s network and securely shared by many businesses, Concourse enables a more cost-effective and robust communication service.

Stay on the Technology Curve without Ongoing Capital Acquisition

Concourse provides all the features that small to mid-sized businesses use, without the extensive up-front capital cost and the ongoing maintenance expenses inherent in owning a traditional phone system. Instead, this simple to use functionality is delivered as a “pay as you grow” service that will adapt to your changing business needs.

A Full Complement of Voice Services

BluArc is a local voice service provider. As such, you can keep your existing phone numbers allowing you to benefit from the advanced features of BluArc’s Concourse service some of which include:

• Local numbers and calling,
• Unlimited long distance calling in North America*
• Toll free numbers
• Extremely competitive rates for international calling
• Full number portability (keep your existing numbers)
• Complete routing of individual telephone numbers (Direct Inward Dial Numbers)
• Local Number Portability for all DIDs
• Calling groups (hunt groups, broadcast groups, etc.)
• Time-of-day Auto Attendant for answering and distributing calls
• Customized call coverage
• Directories and click-to-dial functionality
• Features for usage analysis and accounting
• Voicemail and Unified Mailbox
• Up to 1000 minutes of long distance per business across Canada & the US

Save More with BluArc’s Integrated Internet Service

BluArc also bundles broadband Internet service with your hosted phone system, over one or more T1 or DSL circuits. Bandwidth is allocated dynamically across your broadband circuit, ensuring that you are always taking maximum advantage of your total available bandwidth. By integrating your Internet and voice services over the same connection, the savings to your business are maximized even further.

"Cost reduction, customer control and reliability were the motivating reasons why we chose BluArc," states Linda Giles, office administrator at Brophy Financial Planning, an Ottawa based company. "We wanted to simplify our lives by reducing the number of vendors and our dependencies on them. BluArc's customer self-serve web portal allows us to make any changes such as adding users or services when we need to without any penalties or service charges"