SIP Trunking

Chapter 11. Deployment Steps and Best Practices

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Deployment steps

• Best practices

You might already have decided that you want to or should use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunking on your network. Maybe you have read some reports in the industry that indicate that enterprises can save costs by moving from traditional Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) to SIP trunking, but they often fail to provide the details necessary to determine exactly how this might be calculated or estimated. You might have a directive in your organization to determine if SIP trunking should be deployed, and if yes, how and when—be it for the purposes of technological transformation or cost savings ...