Centrex Prime

Focus on Your Business and Let Centrex Prime Handle Your Business Communications

It goes without saying that paying for unnecessary features and functions in your business communication system does not make fiscal sense. Centrex Prime lets you tailor a system to your specific needs with its suite of advanced, central-office-based data and voice communications services that can serve as your primary business communications system or as a cost-effective addition to your PBX. It's a powerful solution that fully incorporates digital technology into its platform, allowing you to use it for virtually any communications task—from analog phone service to a 129 Kbps digital connection for Internet connectivity. And because all hardware and software lives at a CenturyLink central office, your space and energy resources are freed up so you can focus on your core business.

Centrex Prime Standard Features (Selection)

• Caller ID Name and Number
• Call Forwarding - Don't Answer, Busy, Variable
• Call Waiting
• Direct Inward Dialing
• Distinctive Ringing/Distinctive Call Waiting
• GUI Web-Based Feature Management - Moves, Adds and Changes
• Hunting
• Intrasystem Calling
• Last Number Redial
• Line Restrictions
• Message Waiting
• Outgoing Trunk Queuing
• Speed Calling
• Station Message Detail Recording

Centrex Prime Optional Features (Selection)

• Automatic Route Selection
• Custom Local Area Signaling Services (CLASS) Features—Call Trace, Selective Call Forwarding, Selective Call Rejection
• Direct Inward System Access (DISA)
• Electronic Key Station Service
• Private Facility Terminations—Paging, DS-1, ISDN-PRI
• Uniform Call Distribution

Centrex PRIME Benefits

• Minimize capital and operational costs
• Leverage speed and power for integration of data and voice
• Extend the life of your existing equipment
• Add a wide variety of voice and data features
• Build virtual key systems, share ISDN lines, and explore multimedia applications
• Enjoy 24/7 monitoring, continual maintenance, and automatic technical upgrades

How Centrex PRIME Business Communications Works

Centrex PRIME delivers telecommunications features and service from CenturyLink's digital Class 5 central office switching system via advanced network connections to your premises. CenturyLink's central offices are access controlled for security and engineered with redundant switching components and back-up power providing 99.999 percent availability. Customers connect to Centrex PRIME service using a variety of customer premises equipment (CPE) options that allow for single line, multi-line, and attendant console applications. CPE may be purchased from CenturyLink or a variety of quality providers. CenturyLink uses secure and redundantly engineered application server arrangements to provide customer management capabilities for moves, adds, and changes, as well as call management.