If you're not too proud to admit that there's still a lot you could learn about SIP trunking and SIP session management, we've got a suggestion for your reading list.

It's a new pair of those "... for Dummies" books that are designed to provide the basics of a complex topic. These books were all the rage a few years back, but then we hadn't heard too much about them lately. However, when we heard that SIP Trunking for Dummies and Session Management for Dummies had been published – a joint effort between the publisher and a maker of session border controllers – we figured it would be worth mentioning. More...

When you've been talking about SIP Trunking as long as we have around here, it's hard to think of the technology and the adoption of it as being in the "early stages." But that is the assessment contained in a new report on the state of the SIP union.

The Webtorials report, authored primarily by Steven Taylor, is based on a survey of 300 enterprise IT professionals, who were queried about their perspective and deployment status of SIP Trunking and SBCs, session border controllers. 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...

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...

We love a good debate. Since you can’t get them when it comes to political candidates anymore (everybody’s too worried about each answer containing a good sound bite and one of two or three talking points), a good place to turn might be NoJitter.

There’s an interesting back-and-forth exchange between consultant Marty Parker and NoJitter Editor Eric Krapf about SIP Trunking. It will be clear which of the two of them we side with, but both have good points to make. Marty’s side is here, and Eric’s is here. More...