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...

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...