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November 11, 2008

AireSpring Brings SIP Trunking to ShoreTel VoIP Customers

By Erik Linask, Group Managing Editor


Today, two factors weigh heavily on every business decision maker’s mind: budget and business process enhancement — and of course, the two are hardly mutually exclusive. Certainly cost cutting can stand alone, but improving business efficiency has both short- and long-term cost benefits in terms of resource allocation as well as customer relationships.

 
The cost benefit of VoIP has been an obvious driver in business adoption of IP-based telephony solutions, and it continues to be. But, businesses are also realizing the added benefits of Unified Communications solutions for their daily operations, including enabling mobile workforces to remain productive, increasing collaboration through conferencing and document and application sharing capabilities, and simplified access to information and people, to name a few.
 
So, the migration to VoIP phone systems is in full swing now, and businesses of all sizes are increasingly adopting such solution to meet both requirements — cost effectiveness and business process enhancement.
 
The size of the SMB market, in particular, has been widely reported, and has become a key area of focus for service providers and equipment makers alike. Thanks to the increased attention this space has garnered, companies like ShoreTel, which makes Unified Communications solutions for the SMB market have seen great success of late, not only because they offer cost effective solutions that engender productivity, but also because they are easily deployed by SMBs with limited resources. Namely, most SMB lack the on-site expertise to deploy and manage complex IP PBXs, and rely on companies like ShoreTel (News - Alert) to provide an alternative to high-end systems, without compromising functionality.
 
The increased adoption of VoIP has also allowed for the growth of SIP Trunking, which allows businesses to easily connect calls from their SIP-based VoIP systems to PSTN endpoints inexpensively (there’s more of the cost savings aspect).
 
To simplify deployment further, and to offer even greater return on their VoIP investments, ShoreTel customers now can enjoy integration with AireSpring’s Sip Trunking service, adding even greater costs savings above and beyond what they enjoy with the ShoreTel system. The integration also eliminates the need for searching for a SIP Trunking provider.
 
“With AireSpring’s (News - Alert) nationwide reach, their SIP Trunking product suite, and ShoreTel UC solutions, customers can quickly lower the overall TCO, and improve employee productivity with ShoreTel’s easy-to-use features,” said Kevin Gavin, vice president of marketing at ShoreTel.
 
In addition to providing IP-based communications within a business, the addition of AireSpring’s SIP Trunking capabilities extends the benefits of VoIP beyond the LAN and WAN, allowing customers to benefit from AireSpring’s LCR (Least Cost Routing) capability to achieve lower connection costs to PSTN endpoints. From the customer premises to AireSpring’s network, the connection is pure SIP, at which point AireSpring is able to provide the most cost effective termination path.
 
AireSpring’s SIP Trunking service also extends the benefits of collaboration and productivity to all calls — not just those within a business network, allowing customers to interact more efficiently with colleagues, partners, and customers. It also allows users to easily scale their solutions to meet new requirements as they grow, providing much needed investment protection.
 
“By ensuring the interoperability of AireSpring SIP Trunking products with ShoreTel UC solutions, customers can see potential cost savings of up to 40 percent over traditional platform routing,” explained Daniel Lonstein, chief operating officer for AireSpring.
 
The combination of ShoreTel’s UC solution and SIP Trunking from AireSpring allows SMBs to easily deploy and manage a SIP-based solution that offers the features they believe will help drive their businesses, while offering the cost savings any business needs today.  With this new certification, ShoreTel and AireSpring customers have access to proven SIP Trunking capabilities with cost-effective, feature-rich communications.
 

Erik Linask (News - Alert) is Group Managing Editor of TMCnet, which brings news and compelling feature articles, podcasts, and videos to nearly 3,000,000 visitors each month. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Erik Linask


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