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SIP Phones and the IP-PBX: Working Together

SIP Phones and the IP-PBX

SIP trunks through IP-PBX boxes are winning. The telecommunications industry is a fiercely competitive world these days, and new ideas are clashing, competing, and evolving every day; the winners of the most recent round of competition are the IP-based telephony systems. Internet Protocol-based Private Branch Exchange (IP-PBX) hardware has found a lifelong 'mate' in the service of SIP trunks provided by Internet Telephony Service providers (ITSPs), and the pair are stalking across the telecommunications savannah slaying every tech that tries to butt heads with them.

Their success is based on two overwhelming factors: low cost and incredible features.

The Predators

IP-PBX boxes are hardware units that get wired directly into your business' network backbone, providing advanced calling features that can be utilized over traditional phone lines and also wiring into your data network, allowing the system to forward voicemail to data-line electronics. The net result is that you can have an incoming call show up on your computer screen and be treated as a file rather than a recording. This opens the door to a huge host of highly flexible and robust options for manipulating communications.

SIP trunks are a service that allows your IP-PBX to connect to the outside world over the same kind of data lines that it uses inside your business -- very much like a standard Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system that you might already be using at home. SIP trunks, however, are industrial-strength business-class entities that can handle a small or medium business' phone needs without affecting the data stream to your other electronics.

Low Cost

The net effect of combining an IP-PBX with adequate SIP trunks is that you get phone calls -- incoming and outgoing -- that are essentially free. (You pay an initial cost to set up the IP-PBX and a monthly fee for the SIP trunks, but nothing for each individual call made or received.) The reduction in your communications budget can be moderate, or it might be very significant depending on the specific phone usage in your business -- the more use you generally put your phones to, the more you'll save.

Incredible Features

Most IP-PBX systems already have a variety of powerful features built in -- features like intelligent call routing, an automated attendant to answer calls and provide menus to help direct traffic, and of course voicemail boxes for every department and employee. SIP trunks add even more tools to the IP-PBX' arsenal, often including all of the tools that customers have come to expect as 'standard' on a phone line (call waiting, caller ID, multiparty calling) along with, potentially, advanced Unified Communications features like presence tracking and conferencing features.

It needs to be said that both the cost and the features of the powerful IP-PBX/SIP trunk combination can vary widely depending on the precise provider of your SIP trunks. IP-PBX technology is fairly standardized, but SIP trunking is still a fresh face on the savannah -- so shop carefully and find the best predator for your own business.

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