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...

It’s easy for tech people to lapse into a false assumption, and that is that people we talk to have a similar understanding of the technologies we’re talking about at any given time.

When you work around other IT and/or communications technology people all the time, it becomes natural to think that “everybody” knows the acronyms, the underlying technology, and essentially how all this stuff works. More...

Delivered right before Christmas, the gift that will keep on giving for businesses  in this new year is SIP Toll Free Service, designed to control costs, boost capacity, and enhance control over inbound toll-free calls.

Sprint announced this latest tool in the SIP Trunking toolbox on December 20. It lets organizations leverage their SIP trunks and existing communication system to make their own routing decisions, as well as to share capacity across the enterprise and aggressively control costs. More...

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...

You can make all the arguments you want about how SIP Trunking and Unified Communications are about more than just reducing enterprise communication costs, but in this economy, it should come as no surprise what motivates organizations.

That rationale was validated once again in one of the latest white papers from Webtorials, titled UCC and SIP Drive Savings in Cost-Conscious Enterprises (registration required, but its free). It’s sponsored by a maker of UC equipment, but apart from the promotional aspects of the paper, it has some interesting information. More...

Polls can be useful, or they can be irritating. The useful polls help us determine trends that really have an impact on how we conduct business or conduct our lives. The irritating polls are those that ask people to offer opinions about things that they simply don’t have sufficient information to judge. More...

While enterprises have welcomed the cost savings that SIP Trunking enables immediately, there is an entire range of benefits waiting in the wings thanks to the technology, according to a new white paper from the analysts at Ovum.

This “second wave,” as Ovum calls it, offers the promise of integration, centralization, and deployment of UC in enterprise environments. We’ve talked many times here about SIP Trunking as the foundation for UC, and it’s always good to see this kind of validation of our position. More...