Tag: trunking – DIDcomms

DOD Considering Abandoning AS-SIP

Posted on May 15, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

With the ratification of SIPConnect 2.0, the Department of Defense (DoD) is seriously considering adopting commercial SIP for Voice & Video over IP trunking for unclassified networks. The current Unified Capabilities Requirements (UCR) technical specification requires vendors to adopt a DoD unique version of SIP known as Assured Service SIP, or AS-SIP, which was developed in 2010 to establish ...
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VoIP to replace ISDN

Posted on April 20, 2019May 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

After nearly 25 years of continuous service, ISDN channels are finally coming to their end of days. As more and more businesses migrate away from ISDN technologies we explore the reasons for the decline and the replacements on offer to businesses in more detail. So what is ISDN? ISDN stands for integrated services digital networks. It is a standard developed to cover a range of mediums like voi...
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What is the difference between VoIP and SIP?

Posted on February 16, 2019March 8, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

The differences between VoIP and SIP. VoIP calls are sent via SIP Trunks. VoIP and SIP work in conjunction with each other! Your telecoms supplier provides the SIP trunks as this is how all your VoIP calls, fax and data are transited. You cannot make a VoIP call or send a fax to another phone line without SIP trunks. Let’s say you’re in your office; when you make a call via...
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Which VoIP/SIP Codec Should You Use?

Posted on November 29, 2017May 15, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

How To Describe the Quality of a SIP Trunking Call “So clear, you can hear a pin drop!” Are you old enough to remember the very successful tag line for Sprint Communications' long distance service back in the ancient 1990’s? “Can you hear me now?” Or...Did you grow up remembering the equally (if not more) successful phrase that Verizon Wireless made part of our cultural reality in the new mi...
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It’s time to introduce your customers to SIP trunking as a better alternative to traditional telecoms

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Daniel Kobale

Moving your communications infrastructure to the cloud is easier than they may think! Traditional telecoms solutions are no longer the most effective option for your business communications. With the increase in demand for flexible working and the need for more responsive business communications, It’s time you introduced SIP trunking, a next-generation alternative to traditional ISDN or ISDN30 -...
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SIP Trunking

Posted on February 2, 2017June 18, 2017 by Daniel Kobale

A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to PSTN gateway may have trunks that are connected to different carriers. It is entirely reasonable for a SIP proxy to choose — based on factors not enumerated in this document — which carrier a call is sent to when it proxies a session setup request to the gateway. Since multiple carriers can transport a call to a particular phone number, the phone number itsel...
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What is SIP trunking?

Posted on January 22, 2017June 18, 2017 by Daniel Kobale

SIP trunking is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and streaming media service based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) by which Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs) deliver telephone services and unified communications to customers equipped with SIP-based private branch exchange (IP-PBX) and Unified
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What Is SIP Trunking & Will It Actually Save Your Business Money?

Posted on December 23, 2016June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Conventional analogue phone systems have dominated business communication for a century. But it’s been clear for some time that, when it comes to modern demands, they just don’t cut the mustard. Long distance, international calls continue to cost a fortune. The fact that a traditional copper-based phone line can only handle one call at a time means you’re constantly investing in a new trunk, ev...
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