saw a broader adoption of SIP as a phone standard and for good reason. Whether you are based in Michigan or have offices nationally or internationally, cost continues to be a primary driver for change in any enterprise, and SIP offers businesses large and small an opportunity to achieve significant cost savings in their monthly communications bill. These costs savings are a direct result of lowering long-distance, maintenance, support and administrative costs.
Once an IP telephony system is in place, the costs for adds, moves, and changes may also drop.
What is SIP?
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is an IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) defined signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). Put slightly differently, a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) connection is a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) that connects a company’s private branch exchange (PBX) telephone system to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) via the Internet.
Scalability & Cost Benefits
SIP Trunking has the benefit of easily expanding your network and system as your needs change. For example, with an IP PBX installed at your main office, there is no need to incur additional cost of installing an additional PBX when you open a secondary location. There is also no need for additional wiring and other installation costs. All you need to do is add phones and terminals and you are able to make both internal and external phone calls through the PBX located at the main office.
Additional Benefits
In addition to considerable cost savings and scalability, SIP provides other benefits for the business telephone user, including:
— Simultaneous ringing with a smartphone and your desk set phone
— Transfer of calls between a smartphone and a desk phone
— Smartphone Apps (such as the Bria App for iPhone and SIPDroid for the Android) that lets you do VOIP (no per minute charges)
— Find-me functionality
— Audio messages delivered as a WAV file directly to your email
SIP is quickly becoming recognized as the leading standard for voice and video. Hosted VoIP telephony is a solution favored by companies because it uses a broadband connection at high speed for transmitting voice and data over an IP platform, is cost-effective and is very scalable with little effort required. It also possesses ancillary benefits that improve the business process and makes doing business more efficient.