SIP Trunking Rolls On
Infonetics Research, a well-respected analyst organization, publicized an interesting survey on SIP trunking a couple of weeks ago. They had surveyed 92 PBX-using organizations of more than 100 employees, asking them about their use of SIP trunks, how they blend them with their existing infrastructure, and what savings they are seeing from SIP trunking. The Infonetics folks have prepared a full report based on that survey, although they only skimmed the surface of it in their news announcement.
What is most noteworthy about this survey is that it tracks a clear change in the traditional use of legacy TDM-based technologies for connecting to the public network. SIP trunking is now catching up with TDM – driven by a desire to reduce costs and by using native VoIP, introduce more efficiency into the business’ network, the survey says – although the pace of adoption is not as fast as it would be if technology upgrades weren’t on hold at so many companies.
A couple of notable points from the survey: So far, 39 percent of the responding companies have deployed SIP trunking, and by next year it will be the second most commonly deployed trunking type. Also, the survey respondents say they are deploying SIP trunks widely, across their organizations … not just trialing them at a limited number of sites. Third, there is serious money being spent in order to capitalize on the long term savings. The typical respondent spent between $100,000 and $500,000 on trunking alone!
This survey definitely proves the points we’ve been making about SIP trunking, and reflects that the convergence onto IP-based networks is real, it’s happening, and it’s ongoing. And why wouldn’t it? Sprint SIP Trunking alone allows organizations to put their voice, data, and video onto one network and save money at the same time, as they shed the local trunks they have to buy from ILECs all over the country.
SIP trunking is a key step toward mobile integration and Unified Communications, but even as a standalone strategy, it still makes a lot of financial sense. Companies can cut their total telecom expenditures by as much as half by moving to SIP trunking. Even more when used to solve historically inefficient voice deployments in situations like retail stores, sales offices, etc. Even better, SIP trunking allows you to save now, and jump to UC or mobile integration later … good strategy.
-Steve
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December 8th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
SIP trunking may be in vogue in North America but it’s not even available in Asia-Pacific. So claims by companies they have done it “enterprise-wide” or even “global” are highly doubtful. We tried several times to get SIP trunks for Microsoft OCS in Hong Kong from Sprint but to no avail. So one needs to differentiate a bit more before claiming SIP trunking is the way to go. Personally I’m convinced about the technology as such but availability in Asia is literally non-existant and most companies would need to revert to on-premise gateway solutions for the time being.