SIP Trunks

SIP Trunks - make no mistake, SIP trunks, no matter what anyone says, are the future of telecommunications. And the current in fact.

SIP makes Geography Irrelevant!

SIP makes flexibility Instant!

We have 25 years experience in business and telecommunications so we have seen alot of things come and go. Analogue was replaced by digital. Now SIP is poised to replace digital  - ISDN in other words.

It will not happen instantly.

Now SIP is problem free (when we install it correctly - this is not always the case with our competitors!), SIP trunks will start to replace ISDN in the mainstream.

What is SIP? SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol. That means nothing to you and I does it?

There are 2 sides to SIP. SIP trunks and SIP extensions. Please see the dedicated pages on this site for a full explanation of SIP trunks and SIP extensions as it is important to have an understanding.

Basically SIP trunks are phone lines delivered on an internet connection. Normally, such an internet connection for small businesses will be a broadband connection.

There are many advantages of SIP trunks - please see the dedicated pages on this site - advantages of SIP. SIP extensions are slightly different and at the time of writing this, are not so prevalent. Again see the pages on this site dedicated to SIP extensions.

The main thing to grasp is that SIP is an international standard in telecommunications. A common language if you will. All the telephone system manufacturers are making sure their telephone system platforms support SIP so you can be sure it is important.

For SIP trunks to work, there are two critical things that must be considered as follows:

  1. The connectivity must be correct - in other words the internet connection. There must be enough bandwidth. Furthermore, that bandwidth should ideally be delivered by the SIP trunk provider.
  2. The telephone system manufacturer must have tested their system with the SIP trunks from the SIP trunk provider. If this is not in place, good luck! We doubt it will work.

The main reason for businesses being unhappy with SIP is that one of these critical requirements has been ignored by the supplier, sales person or whoever.

 

''SIP will replace digital ISDN lines.....make no mistake!''

The most frequent problem we find is that SIP trunks do not work as they have been bought because it is cheaper than ISDN.

Whilst this may be the case, there are alot of sales people trying to sell SIP trunks as they appear cheaper - whilst it is now cheaper, this is only a recent occurence which is due to the better internet connection speeds being available throughout the UK.

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Call us now for advice

01892 676000

 and ask for Nick Brandon or Paul Berry.

 

siptrunks-uk is operated by First Office Systems Ltd, 14-16a Albion Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 2NH