Save money -- that is what the accountant told you today. So now what? You have looked at all your options, so now is the time to dig deeper. Maybe you hear about SIP, and wonder why and how SIP is good for small business.

SIP trunking comes with many benefits including reduced telecom costs, cloud functionality, and ease of capacity expansion. When paired with other communication solutions such as unified communications, businesses are able to seamlessly integrate those benefits with UC functionality such as desktop sharing or instant messaging. When looking at a UC solution with SIP trunking, you’ll be able to improve employee productivity, reduce costs, and harness the flexibility of the cloud. 

The Big Question - What is SIP Trunking?

SIP trunking is a way to deliver voice and media over the Internet. If your business phone system, or PBX, can connect to the Internet and use the SIP protocol to make calls over the Internet, then SIP trunking can be a means of delivering high quality, reliable digital voice services for your business without the cost of additional hardware. There are many reliable dial tone carriers that offer SIP trunking. 

Here are just four reasons why SIP trunking pairs perfectly with small business:

1. Same Office Experience for workers in Chico, and Sacramento

SIP trunking supports voice and media data so you can run your all communication efforts over the same network. By removing geographic barriers, you’ll be able to deliver a consistent experience across your different office locations and remote employees, and increase productivity by giving your employees access to the same systems and data. 

2. Improved Business Continuity

Carrier diversity and redundancy is a key benefit of SIP trunking. If an outage does occur, your business phone system will have access to multiple carriers through your SIP trunking provider’s network to ensure uptime. Top SIP trunking providers invest a great deal into their network to ensure automatic failovers that support disaster recovery needs. Plus, as your local vendor we will help manage all of the carrier relations and maintenance so you don’t have to. Less time and hassle for your small business staff.

3. Scalability when YOU need it!

When your business grows or if you have seasonal fluctuations in call volume, you’ll likely need to add phone lines to support those changes. With SIP trunking, your telecom connectivity can quickly scale as you need it to. Call capacity can be increased on-demand to support unlimited concurrent calls, while ensuring you never pay for more than you need. Instead of forecasting advance installations and incurring the associated costs, all you’ll have to do is contact your provider to increase the number of trunks.

4. Getting Ready for Cloud

SIP trunking is a great alternative if you’re considering the cloud but aren’t quite ready to make the leap. By combining onsite UC solutions with SIP trunking, you’ll be able to maintain the control of your onsite solution while gaining cloud benefits such as flexibility to grow and simplified management.

SIP trunking may be very new to you, but the industry is no longer young and new. It is tried and true. You can learn more by watching this video about SIP.  

Contact Gaynor today for a DEMO on a small business phone system that will use SIP. 

About Us

Gaynor Telesystems Inc. has been proudly serving the North State Communities of Chico, Yuba City, Marysville, Eureka, Arcata, Sacramento, Davis, Woodland, Redding, and Red Bluff for more than 40 years. We hope the information you found in this blog was useful. To learn more about how Gaynor Telesystems Inc. can help you install, maintain or service business communication solutions, please contact us at 877-Gaynor1.