At this point, many business owners have heard of SIP trunking;
however, they may not fully understand what the technology entails. That means
they may not know if their business can benefit from it.
So, what is SIP exactly? SIP, or Session Initiation Protocol, is
fundamental technology for signaling and controlling multimedia communications.
To this end, a SIP trunk is not all too different from a traditional phone
line. The biggest difference is that a SIP trunk eliminates the need for a
physical wire, instead allowing businesses to operate using “virtual” phone
lines provided by a SIP trunk provider. This provider uses a company’s data
circuit (i.e. T1, cable, DSL) to connect its phone system back to their
network.
Ultimate Scalability
With legacy telephony, increasing capacity requires you to
purchase additional physical lines from the phone company, which is expensive
and often time-consuming. To protect against having to scale up this way,
businesses often purchase enough lines to handle peak capacity, which means
resources are wasted when traffic is slower. Because SIP trunks are virtual
lines, the infrastructure necessary to capacity when and where you need is
already in place. In other words, you only pay for what you use.
Significant Cost Savings
When you add SIP trunks to a high-quality PBX service you can
drastically reduce expenses in several ways. First, you eliminate monthly
charges from a service provider. Second, with SIP trunks every call becomes
local, so your long distance calling expenses are slashed as well. You can also
save money by paying for one service for communications, rather than a separate
voice and data plan. Finally, as was mentioned above, SIP trunks make it easy
to scale your system without adding physical phone lines, which always come at
a cost.
Greater Reliability
SIP trunks are extremely stable, because as virtual lines they are
not susceptible to local power outages resulting from weather events or
equipment failure. The technology also allows call to be routed to
pre-determined locations if a primary office location goes offline for any
reason. Considering even a few minutes of downtime can cost a business
thousands of dollars, business continuity is a major advantage of SIP trunking.
Compatibility with IP-PBX
Phone Systems
SIP trunks can be seamlessly integrated with SIP based
communications like the 3CX Phone System for Windows. Our system—which includes
a variety of features like mobile clients, unified communications etc.—replaces
an entire legacy phone system, with the SIP trunk taking the place of old style
phone lines.
Overall
Investing in a SIP trunk provider an offer quick and considerable
savings for many organizations. In most cases, this system can provide a rapid
return on investment. SIP not only offers VoIP calling, but this system
provides many other useful features. The best aspect of implementing SIP
trunking is the amount of savings. Moreover, these savings can come from many
different areas and help organizations of many different types and sizes.
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