If your business is still running on PRI or analog lines, now is the time to start researching what a virtual SIP trunk can do for you. SIP trunking offers a number of benefits over legacy, non-virtual solutions such as cost savings, increased flexibility and added business continuity. By running everything over the Internet, you’re able to gain cloud benefits with your current onsite phone system and increase operational efficiency. As communications solutions evolve, modernizing your connectivity as well will be essential to ensuring the call quality your organization needs.
Keep in mind the following things as you research different SIP providers:
Performance with Other Communications Solutions
Knowing how your SIP trunking solution will perform with your other communications solutions is critical to ensure clear call quality and dependable uptime. Older connectivity solutions aren’t optimized to work with modern UC solutions so the connectivity may not perform as well as it could. Make sure your SIP provider is aware of your current communications solutions so you are properly configured for success.
Complexity, Maintenance & Effort Required
As you evaluate virtual trunks, keep in mind the amount of time you spend maintaining your current solution. Determine how much goes into scaling, configuring and budgeting for your hard lines. With traditional, non-virtual trunks, scaling requires adding new physical lines which means time and money to order and install them. With virtual trunks, all you have to do is contact your provider and you can scale instantly.
Support for Future Needs & Growth
Virtual SIP trunks offer cloud benefits such as on-demand scalability and improved business continuity, letting you keep and extend the control provided by your onsite phone system. If your business is expecting growth or you experience seasonal fluctuations in call volume, SIP trunking is a great way to save time and money. With SIP trunking, you can add trunks as needed so you’re able to manage resources more efficiently. SIP trunking also improves business continuity by delivering built-in redundancy and automatic failover destinations. With legacy connectivity solutions, if something happens to your hard lines, you likely don’t have multiple carriers at your fingertips for backup. Virtual trunks work with multiple carriers to ensure uptime.
The pros of SIP trunking are plentiful and the switch is simple. As long as your PBX supports SIP connectivity, you’ll be able to gain these benefits with your current phone system. So, what are you waiting for?
