Enterprises more than doubled their SIP trunking investments in 2011 compared with 2010, but the room for further growth is almost unlimited.

According to the industry analyst firm Infonetics Research, SIP spending was up 128 percent last year, making it one of the fastest-growing telecom services in North America. But even with that kind of growth, SIP Trunking accounted for only one of 10 trunks deployed here. More...

As wise old Ben Franklin said, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Of course, a penny had a bit more buying power back in Ben’s day, but let’s not be too literal here. If you can leverage technology to save your company money, then the mere act of NOT spending it in the first place is the equivalent of generating additional revenue.

The technology in this case is SIP Trunking, and while it is a foundational building block for Unified Communications, the truth is, many companies really only look at SIP Trunking initially for the sake of potential savings. More...

The promises of SIP Trunking are many: cost savings, simplicity, and improved communications systems.  As projected by ABI Research’s Enterprise Communications Research Group, VoIP-based enterprise communications platforms and services will generate more than $4 billion in revenue by 2015 and this is largely due to the wide adoption of SIP Trunking. More...

Here at Seamless Enterprise, we’ve written a lot about SIP Trunking over the past year or so (such as SIP Trunking as the Foundation of UC, Second Generation SIP Trunking,  and the Sprint UC Story: Planning the Move), but maybe it’s time to take a step back, for the sake of readers who may not be as knowledgeable about the topic as they might like. More...

Nice post last week by Broadsoft's Alex Doyle, who discusses the evolution of SIP Trunking and why this is a big deal for business customers. He starts with a clever quote and description: Using an IP PBX with TDB PRI circuits was once "like driving a Ferrari on a dirt road." (CBeyond's CTO Chris Gatch).More...

Our announcement this week of Sprint’s integration of our Global MPLS network and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunking with Microsoft’s Office Communications Server 2007 Release 2 (OCS 2007 R2) is significant not just because Sprint is one of the first United States-based providers of SIP Trunking services qualified for use with Office Communications Server 2007 R2, but also for what it means to businesses and their unified communications deployments. More...

If you are looking to deploy IP trunking to your IP PBX, you face an array of challenging decisions. So much for the idea that things in IP are simpler than they were in the world of TDM voice. It is the benefits of IP that also create some of its biggest challenges.More...