Podcast: Empirix Highlights Benefits of SIP Trunking in the Enterprise
January 14, 2010
By Stefania Viscusi, Assignment Desk Editor
As more and more enterprises make the transition to IP networks today, SIP trunking has become a particularly hot area of focus.
Along with significant cost savings and improved flexibility, SIP trunking technology offers businesses better integration and an improved infrastructure to manage and scale as needed.
Empirix (News - Alert), a Bedford, MA-based provider of service quality assurance solutions for IP communications, makes it possible for businesses to maintain quality of the user experience and as a result, increase revenues, reduce customer churn, and cut costs.
In a recent TMCnet podcast, Gordon Eddy (News - Alert), director of product management at Empirix, explained how SIP Trunks can help companies save on costs, as well as other benefits.
Gordon said that the real motivator of increased migration is the fact that SIP trunking provides tremendous cost savings over TDM and PRI lines.
The cost savings, Gordon said, “In the areas of both local and long distance calls are anywhere form 50-70 percent per trunk.”
In addition to these cost savings, SIP is also beneficial because it provides significant improvements over legacy IP and TDM protocols. This includes ease of integration, management, scalability, and the ability to rapidly develop new services.
For enterprises, Gordon said, SIP trunks makes it possible to tie business applications together and offer simplified access for remote employee and agents.
In addition, enterprises can better manage bandwidth usage and leverage a single network connection for services beyond voice including presence and IM as well as data and video – thereby easing the implementation and integration into Unified communications.
All of these capabilities provide increased employee and business efficiencies and ultimately also save enterprises money.
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Stefania Viscusi is an assignment editor for TMCnet, covering voice and Voice over IP technologies. She also oversees production of TMCnet's e-Newsletters in the areas of Internet telephony and speech technology. To read more of Stefania's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by Stefania Viscusi