Let’s start with basics: What can SIP trunking do for you?
SIP trunking capabilities offer growing businesses the ability to scale their telecom systems faster and more cost-effectively than they can with traditional phone lines.
“As long as each switch has an IP address, communication can be made from one point to the other,” according to a recently published report from REDCOM (News - Alert) , a provider of SIP trunking services.
With proper network assessment planning and implementation, SIP trunks can deliver high quality and reliable service with cost savings, according to the company.
SIP trunking also provides a good opportunity for service providers to implement advanced telephony applications at a lower cost than they might be used to. Generally migrating to VoIP is relatively easy, with such products as either the TRANSip-equipped REDCOM HDX or SLICE 2100, which works with a company’s current infrastructure to convert existing customers to IP customers.
SIP itself is a signaling protocol that assists in originating, managing, and terminating VoIP telephone calls, REDCOM officials said, adding that it “represents a complete break with traditional telephony protocols.”
It’s considered a generalized protocol for allowing “user agent” clients and servers to associate, which means that when communication is desired, it allows them to exchange capabilities, make media choices and finally establish communication sessions between them – which is all you really care about in the first place.
So the surprise isn’t that more and more service providers are turning to SIP trunking to secure cost savings and enhance service offerings, given what REDCOM officials describe as the “rapid return on investment and increased network efficiencies that come from SIP trunking.”
Using products such as the SIP trunking capabilities of REDCOM’s TRANSip-powered HDX and SLICE 2100 softswitches, service providers can reduce or terminate altogether their use of expensive BRIs, PRIs and other legacy circuits. This, in turn, helps them reduce costly telecom expenses and their Total Cost of Ownership.
David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.
Edited by Marisa Torrieri