If SIP Trunking looks so good on paper – and it does – as you run the numbers on it for cost savings and productivity gains, why do many enterprises seem so half-hearted about it?

Sorell Slaymaker, writing at NoJitter, has some thoughts on that, with some interesting insight into why it is that, as he says, some 70 percent of organizations have SIP trunks in their network environment, but only five percent have fully migrated. More...

 The whole idea behind SIP Trunking is to enable flexibility and return on investment for enterprises, to give them an option of moving to SIP trunks when and how they want to, while reaping the financial benefits of a converged network. Whether their main motivation is to save money over the local telco trunks alternative or to begin building a foundation for the future or Unified Communications, SIP Trunking gives them freedom of choice. More...

There are two ways to look at the benefits of optimizing the bandwidth on your company’s wide area network, and it depends on how you spend your workday.More...

It’s partly our fault for not speaking up sooner, but Sprint has gotten tagged with the reputation of a company that just isn’t serious about its wireline business. This is so far off the mark that it would almost be funny, if we weren’t the butt of the joke. More...

We talked last time about ILEC special access charges and the pain they impose on an enterprise that uses T1 and other dedicated services. Until the day when (we hope) the FCC remedies this situation, it is up to enterprises to find ways to relieve the financial burden caused by excessive ILEC rates. More...

Special access charges are a lot like the Terminator (in the first movie, that is). They get seemingly more insidious and just won’t die, short of plunging them into a vat of molten steel. Maybe we should try that. More...