Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are continually looking for ways to increase profit margins while keeping up with technology and efficiently communicating within their infrastructure and with suppliers, partners and customers. SIP trunking is an attractive and viable cost-saving move because it offers several tangible opportunities to increase profits. The reduction in communication cost-per-minute gives an almost immediate return on investment when compared to traditional TDM delivery. For example, the cost of one SIP trunk is about $20 per month as compared to the typical analog line which is usually twice that.
For all companies, there is a need to remain in communication with remote offices, suppliers, customers, distributors or business partners. With SIP trunking, the cost of this is virtually eliminated. Depending on the company, there may also be local loop costs resulting from separate connectivity to ISPs, ILECs and CLECs which can be reduced by deploying it for business communications.
When deployed an immediate savings of up to 70% over the cost of traditional communications networks can be realized. SMBs can also receive a reduction in hardware costs by collapsing LAN and WAN infrastructures and implementing SIP trunking through existing resources. IM, video and presence are becoming more widespread and these services employed individually can be costly. The trunking provides a converged services architecture, supporting multiple forms of real-time communication.
Historically, changing phone service can take weeks to implement, whereas Broadvox SIP Trunking can be deployed in a matter of hours, enabling savings in labor costs. Disaster recovery options are available along with scalability, offering the continuity needed during periods of growth.
SIP trunking is not an either-or solution. The flexibility of keeping some TDM lines for redundancy is an option to provide additional disaster recovery protection while maximizing use of previously-installed equipment. Through a gateway, trunking benefits can still be leveraged by companies with legacy CPE without purchasing or upgrading to new equipment.
Managing configuration changes when trunking is employed takes less time. Moves, Adds and Changes (MACs) are performed through online portals, saving both time and manpower. In addition to the savings in hardware and labor, the convenience and efficiency of the solution can bring a reduction in administrative costs.
Summing up, SMBs can realize cost-savings and profit-margin increases while reducing man hours and improving efficiency and effectiveness of communications by implementing SIP trunking.
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