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Listen Before You Leap – Get a Free SIP Trunk Trial
The benefits of SIP trunking for business are significant. Some customers are able to cut their communication costs by as much as 60%. In addition, businesses enjoy greater flexibility and easier maintenance. You may have heard great things about it from peers and friends. You may also have heard terrible things about it from peers…
Read MoreSIP Trunking A-Z: Key Terms and Acronyms
It is almost impossible to have a conversation about SIP trunking without relying on a vocabulary that probably sounds pretty foreign to people who aren’t involved in telecommunications on a regular basis. SIP itself is an acronym, so right off the bat, we’re throwing out lingo. If you are a reader of this blog, you…
Read MoreThe SIP Forum Updates Technical Recommendations for Interoperability
If you’ve visited our blog very often, you know that we try to talk about SIP trunking, VoIP, and unified communications in a fairly non-technical way that makes sense to folks who aren’t immersed in telecommunications details every day. (In other words, people not like us.) We think that most businesses can benefit from SIP…
Read MoreTop 7 Questions About SIP Trunking
Businesses of all sizes are starting to make the switch from traditional telephone lines and their expensive, inflexible carrier contracts to the modern, digital approach of SIP trunking. In fact, the market for SIP trunks is expected to be more than ten billion dollars next year. Although SIP trunking has been around for more than…
Read MoreSIP Trunking vs. the PSTN: The Evolution of Today’s Communication Systems
The public switched telephone network (PSTN) includes all the world’s circuit-switched telephone networks operated by local, regional, or national telecommunications carriers. It is the basis for all public telecommunications. PSTN comprises telephone lines, transmission links, telephone cables, cellular networks, and more, enabling any telephone in the world to call any other. Given all that, you…
Read MoreThe 12 Joys of SIP Trunking
If you are looking for the perfect gift for your business this holiday season, you’ve come to the right place. Making the move to SIP trunks is the gift that will keep on giving for years to come. Here are twelve reasons that SIP trunking will keep a smile on your face long after the…
Read MoreSIP Trunk Pricing Explained
People turn to SIP trunking to reduce business communications costs, eliminate long-term carrier contracts, and make monthly costs more predictable. The first step to determining whether the move to SIP will have a positive ROI for your business is understanding all of your current communications costs. The next is determining the ongoing and upfront costs associated…
Read MoreUsing SIP with a Free, Open Source PBX
A study by The Eastern Management Group found that by 2018, 42% of all businesses will send their toll traffic on SIP trunks. Why? Because people have figured out that SIP is an effective way to significantly lower communications cost while still getting reliable, flexible service. SIP trunks provide connectivity to the PSTN (Public Switched…
Read MoreWhy Startups and Small Businesses Love SIP Trunking
The demands on small business owners and startup founders are intense. Success requires careful attention to every detail and good decisions about how every hour is used and every dollar is spent. That’s why so many look for innovative ways to keep costs down while still providing the basic infrastructure necessary to get business done.…
Read MoreBandwidth Triage. There’s an App for That.
Imagine what it would be like if hospital emergency rooms operated on a strictly first-come-first-served basis. The guy with the gunshot wound would sit in the corner while the teenager who broke her finger playing basketball got taped up. That would be insane and people would suffer needlessly. Of course, that’s not how emergency rooms…
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