Modern business communication rarely happens within a single office or within a single PBX environment. Organizations today operate across multiple locations, departments, and tenants, making visibility into user availability increasingly important for efficient communication.

With Version 70 of the Vodia PBX, organizations and service providers can now share presence information externally between tenants and across individual PBX systems, helping teams stay connected across distributed communication environments.

External Presence Sharing in V70

V70 introduces the ability to share presence information between two tenants on the same PBX, or across different PBX servers in separate locations. The PBX systems must be able to reach each other through the internet for the exchange of presence information across environments. 

Once configured, the external account can be monitored through multiple interfaces. This feature extends BLF visibility beyond a single tenant or PBX system, creating new possibilities for organizations operating across multiple locations or managing distributed PBX deployments.

V70 also creates a path for external applications to push presence information through the REST API, enabling additional flexibility for custom integrations and communication workflows.

Designed for distributed communication environments

External Presence Sharing is extremely useful for organizations operating across multiple offices, separate PBX systems, or multi-tenant deployments.

Examples include:

• businesses with users distributed across multiple locations
• organizations operating separate PBX systems by department or office
• service providers managing multiple tenants
• teams that require visibility into extension availability across environments

By extending presence visibility beyond a single PBX environment, V70 helps organizations maintain clearer communication visibility across users and locations.

V70 improvements for modern PBX deployments

Version 70 of the Vodia PBX introduces major architectural and usability improvements designed for modern business communication environments.

In addition to External Presence Sharing, V70 also:

• introduces a completely refreshed admin interface built on new technology
• uses multiple CPU cores for media processing, enabling more than a thousand calls on a single server
• provides snapshot creation and restoration using a file system approach for rollback and recovery
• enables centralized remote provisioning
• supports cross-tenant BLF status sharing

For businesses and service providers managing larger deployments, these improvements provide greater operational flexibility, scalability, and visibility across multiple environments.

Requirements for External Presence Sharing

There are three requirements for External Presence Sharing in V70:

• both PBX systems must be running V70
• network connectivity between PBX servers must allow bidirectional communication
• firewall rules must permit presence subscription traffic

Once configured, presence information can be monitored across supported interfaces.

Documentation

For configuration examples, setup instructions, and additional technical information, please visit the External Presence Sharing documentation page.

If you’re looking for a flexible and scalable cloud phone system for distributed business communication, V70 of the Vodia PBX delivers new tools for visibility, administration, and multi-tenant collaboration.

If you have questions about V70 or External Presence Sharing, we’d love to talk to you - please contact us at sales@vodia.com or +1 (617) 861-3490.