SIP Trunking Gets a Boost

The SIP Forum just announced the "SIPconnect Compliant" program to certify SIP-based products as being compliant with the forum's SIPconnect standards.  According to the press release, several vendors have already been certified including Acme Packet, BroadSoft, Cbeyond, Digium, Ingate, and McLeodUSA.

The goal of the program is to make adoption of SIP trunking services easier by certifying that both enterprise VOIP products and carrier SIP trunking platforms will easily interoperate.  I've already heard some concerns about interoperability challenges from several enterprises and service provider. 

SIP trunking is growing in interest as it presents enterprises with the ability to virutalize in-bound calls as well as reduce costly PSTN trunks.  It's an area we'll be looking at closely in our conversations with enterprises over the next several months.

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