Your Guide to Business Telephony
SIP vs ISDN - Your Guide to Business Telephony Many industry experts are predicting the decline of ISDN business telephony and the rise of SIP over the next few years. Most businesses have been using ISDN telephony since 1988 - the system used by your normal phone and carried through traditional telephone lines. It's now seen as quite an antiquated system and will soon be taken over by new technology. Digital is everywhere and analogue no longer has the appeal that it used to. What is SIP? With the rise in broadband speed, ever greater Wi-Fi connectivity and many regions switching to SIP enabled public branch exchanges, this method of making telephone calls is becoming the platform of choice for many businesses and that trend is set to increase. SIP stands for session initiation protocol and it offers voice systems over the internet as opposed to the telephone lines used by ISDN. It has a number of benefits over its more archaic relation, chief amongst which are the