
1. Look at reducing your call spend by getting free calls between sites anywhere in the world
2. Reduce your annual maintenance bill with zero maintenance costs.
3. Design your own bespoke, company business continuity plan with automatic and immediate re-routing of calls in case of circuit failure or office closure
4. Design your own bespoke, personal number business continuity plan with automatic and immediate re-routing of calls in case of circuit failure or office closure
5. Take control of your future telecoms spend with fixed costs per user
6. Implement a future proof solution
7. Offer your staff totally flexible and remote working options
8. Reduce your operating costs
9. Be contactable, any time, any place anywhere
10. Reduce your international call spend by installing a fixed cost solution in your suppliers premises
SIP, also known as Session Initiation Protocol is a signalling protocol that controls other programs being launched into IP based phone systems. These programs or applications can be anything that is multimedia or communications based, for example, a call between two people or a video conferencing call. Whatever form of communication it is, SIP provides features to help the different sessions work at the best possible standard. Elite Telecom is a SIP specialist and can help your company convert to a SIP phone system – just give us a call today for a free consultation!
BT Global Services is due to expand its SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) trunking service via its Onevoice service. Onevoice service is an end-to-end service for voice communications.
SIP trunking is a solution whereby calls travel over an IP data network rather than a public switched telephone network (PSTN). The main advantages of using a SIP trunk are the scalability of users and the fact that more applications can be used over a data network than a phone line. Along with BT’s Onevoice, SIP also provides presence-management.
BT has said that the next year will see its SIP trunking service extend to the United States, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
Networking giant Cisco has announced the release of a security advisory which deals with security flaws in two of its popular products – namely, Unified Communications Manager and Unified Presence Lines.
The Unified Communications Manager has flaws that could allow SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) denial of service attacks. The Unified Presence solution also has flaws that would allow SIP handling denial of service vulnerabilities.
The US Computer Emergency Response Team has urged IT administrators to install updates and patches as soon as possible to avoid the security risks.
US company CoreDial, a telecoms company that provides VoIP, hosted PBX and SIP trunking solutions, has teamed up with ECOMM Networks, provider of converged voice and data services.
Using CoreDial’s network service and software solutions, ECOMM Networks will be able to provide hosted VoIP and SIP trunking to customers throughout America. Like the UK, SIP trunking is becoming ever more widespread in the US, with more businesses beginning to appreciate its cost-effectiveness and simplicity.
With the rise in SIP (Session Initiation protocol) Trunking come concerns over the security of a service that is still in its nascent stages. Security concerns are par for the course with any technology but because SIP is still largely unknown outside of the telecoms industry, people are more cautious than usual. According to Steve Johnson of SIP-based security solutions provider Ingate Systems, with the right precautions, SIP can be completely secure. He says that VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) can be more secure than calls made on PSTN. SIP is set to be the next big thing so it’s good to know that we can count on it being secure!
Skype are to open up their SIP programme which launched in August as a closed beta. With the SIP programme from Skype users around the world can call businesses on Unified Communications (UC) systems and vice versa. In order to do this, companies need to create a Business Control Panel on Skype and configure it to work with their existing SIP communications system. The new SIP programme will have plenty of easy-to—use features that will unify communications while cutting costs. Skype have already had thousands of applications for the SIP programme.
A report conducted by Infonetics Research has discovered that SIP Trunking (Session Initiation Protocol) is becoming more widespread. On average, respondents spend up to $500,000 (around £305,717) on SIP Trunking although T1 lines still rule the roost at the minute.
39% of respondents have installed SIP Trunking solutions already which shows just how popular SIP is becoming. By 2010 the report states, SIP Trunking should be one of the most dominant trunking types around.
Get ready – because if you have a Toshiba phone system, or more specifically, a Strata CIX VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone system, then your day is about to get a whole lot better. Toshiba, in conjunction with another company, can now provide SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) Trunking on their phone systems. The service will allow Toshiba CIX phone systems to communicate over IP within the company but also outside the company. With a SIP Trunk, the traditional PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) lines will be replaced with PSTN connectivity for a better service – good news for Toshiba users!
Skype for SIP, launched earlier this year, is expanding its SIP-based IP-PBX solutions by merging it with Cisco Unified Communications – the 500 series for Small Business.
SMEs (small to medium sized enterprises) will be able to utilise features such as receiving inbound calls directly to a PBX system or directing outbound calls via Skype. Management and communications using Skype, SIP and Cisco has never been easier.