How to Simplify Your Telecom with SIP Trunking

WSI Comandix on June 1, 2017

If your business is looking to simplify its phone management, SIP trunking might be the relief you’re looking for. By eliminating the need for maintenance and installations, your teams will have to spend less time managing telecom issues and more time focusing on core business matters.

Fast Implementation

A new SIP trunking solution can be deployed within 30-60 days, or even a few weeks depending on the scope of the project. Because SIP trunking installation is handled behind the scenes, primarily by your SIP trunking provider, you will be able to get up and running without any disruption to your business. There is nothing additional to configure at your end, provided you have a strong connection to the Internet and a SIP-compatible business phone system.

No Maintenance

Once you’re up and running, increasing capacity is as simple as contacting your provider. No more hard wires or installations required – all you have to do is request additional trunks to scale your solution. Your SIP provider will also manage the network and disaster recovery so you don’t have to. With a reliable vendor, redundancy is automatically baked in and your provider will handle all of the failover destinations if a hardware or carrier issue should occur.

Single Vendor

Many SIP trunking providers offer other communications solutions as well. If your provider does, you’ll have one point of contact for all of your communication needs. No more pointing fingers or needing to call multiple vendors to determine the source of the issue. Instead, you’ll have one call to make to get to the root of the problem. By having one vendor, you’ll be able to save time and provider a seamless experience across all of your communications solutions.

Remove Geographic Barriers

With SIP trunking, you can integrate with local PSTNs to streamline interactions between employees in multiple locations. Because remote locations can be added easily to the same network and enjoy access to the same communications applications as workers at headquarters, both regional and international offices benefit.

Support for Growth

As your business grows, you currently have to forecast adding new lines in advance to prevent capacity issues, plus invest a lot of time and money into physical space and installation management required to turn up additional lines. With SIP trunking, call capacity can be increased on-demand to support unlimited concurrent calls. Hence, you don’t have to spend time installing additional lines when business demands change or get caught in a bind if unexpected seasonality occurs. Plus, you won’t have to account for future grow and overpay for lines you aren’t using.

4 Reasons Why SIP Trunking is the Perfect Match for UC Solutions

WSI Comandix on June 27, 2016

SIP trunking comes with many benefits – reduced telecom costs, cloud functionality and ease of capacity expansion are just a few. When paired with other communications solutions such as unified communications, businesses are able to seamlessly integrate those benefits with UC functionality such as desktop sharing or instant messaging. By extending your onsite UC solution with SIP trunking, you’ll be able to improve employee productivity, reduce costs and harness the flexibility of the cloud.

What is SIP Trunking?

SIP Trunking is a way to deliver voice and media over the Internet. If your business phone system, or PBX, can connect to the Internet and use the SIP protocol to make calls over the Internet, then SIP trunking can be a means of delivering high quality, reliable digital voice services for your business without the cost of additional hardware.

There are many benefits associated with SIP Trunking, but here are our top four reasons why SIP trunking and UC are the perfect pair:

  1. Consistent Experience Across Offices

SIP trunking supports voice and media data so you can run your all communications efforts over the same network. By removing geographic barriers, you’ll be able to deliver a consistent experience across your different office locations and remote employees, and increase productivity by giving your employees access to the same systems and data.

  1. Improved Business Continuity

Carrier diversity and redundancy is a key benefit of SIP trunking. If an outage does occur, your business phone system will have access to multiple carriers through your SIP trunking provider’s network to ensure uptime. Top SIP trunking providers invest a great deal into their network to ensure automatic failovers that support disaster recovery needs. Plus, your vendor will manage all of the carrier relations and maintenance so you don’t have to.

  1. On-Demand Scalability

When your business grows or if you have seasonal fluctuations in call volume, you’ll likely need to add phone lines to support those changes. With SIP trunking, your telecom connectivity can quickly scale as you need it to. Call capacity can be increased on-demand to support unlimited concurrent calls, while ensuring you never pay for more than you need. Instead of forecasting advance installations and incurring the associated costs, all you’ll have to do is contact your provider to increase the number of trunks.

  1. Stepping Stone to Cloud

SIP trunking is a great alternative if you’re considering the cloud but aren’t quite ready to make the leap. By combining onsite UC solutions with SIP trunking, you’ll be able to maintain the control of your onsite solution while gaining cloud benefits such as flexibility to grow and simplified management.

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