Future proof your business and start saving on calls

Key takeaways

• Line rental at up to 40% below BT standard rates for ISDN and analogue
• Call rates bespoke for your business’ specific call profiles and favourite call destinations
• Fast provision of service enables a seamless switch from your current provider
• All services managed and monitored in-house by our accredited Helpdesk Support Team
• Account Management of service for personal attention, regular review, advice and guidance
• Simple and easy to understand billing, with online access to all your monthly invoices and valuable extra features via our MyIntraLAN portal

With the massive growth in business Internet use, having best speed, resilience, stability and a high level of reliability has never been more mission critical to your business.

Now, with almost everyone in a company accessing cloud services, emails, applications, sending/receiving files, accessing video & security systems, can you afford to compromise your business efficiency by not having a ‘best of breed’ broadband service?

The following guidelines will help you decide upon the best Broadband to suit your needs:

ADSL 2 – Very small office / home – staff: 1–2 Sites: 1

• Requirements – keeping cost down, not always online
• Use of data – Website and surfing , email
• Speeds – up to 8Mps downstream and 448kbps upstream
• Usage – up to 100Gbps per month
• Available on any analogue line

Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) – Small office – staff: 2–5 Sites: 1

• Requirements – more complex data usage, multiple users, voice enabled services
• Use of data – Website and surfing , email, on-line docs, SaaS, Sage Pay, PayPal, Google Docs, MS 365 etc.
• Speeds – up to 80Mps downstream and 20Mps upstream
• Unlimited usage available
• Available on any analogue line

FTTC / GEA – Medium office – staff: 5–20 Sites: 1–2

• Requirements – homeworkers with online requirements, voice enables services
• Use of Data – Website and surfing, email, online docs, fil transfer, voice enabled services, SIP-service, Cloud services
• FTTC – up to 80Mbps, dedicated and symmetrical bandwidth, SLA, 24/7 monitor
• GEA – up to 80Mps, converged voice and data, SLA, 24/7 monitor

Generic Ethernet Access (GEA) / Fibre Ethernet Leased line – Medium to large office – staff: 20-200 Sites: multi

• Requirements – Heavy data use, business critical, High quality voice / video, managed services, security, resilience
• Use of Data – High speed internet access, large file transfer, In-house hosting, Video conferencing, Voice enabled services, SIP Service
• GEA – up to 80Mps down 20Mbps up, converged voice and data, SLA, 24/7 monitor
• Leased Line – up to 1Gbps, dedicated symmetric bandwidth, SLA six hours

SIP is rapidly becoming the telecoms protocol of choice for phone calls on data networks.

Session Initiation Protocol is the technology used for establishing a voice communication session on a data network (for example over the Internet). A SIP “session” might be a regular VoIP phone call between two participants or a multi-party conference call.

What Is SIP Trunking?

A SIP Trunk provides the same service you will receive from a traditional analog phone line. The difference is, instead of being a physical wire, a SIP Trunk is a “virtual” phone line which is provided by a SIP trunk.

Why Convert to SIP Trunking?

With SIP trunks there are no physical lines that need to be maintained and because of the lower price structure of VoIP, a SIP Trunk is considerably less expensive than ISDN.

Depending upon the types of calls, and quantity of calls you are making, SIP Trunking can save you 50%+ on your monthly bill.

Choosing SIP will significantly improve your business communications’ efficiency:

• SIP enables smaller businesses to compete with large corporations by enabling a much more professional presentation and presence of ‘scale’ than they actually are
• For larger business, one of the main advantages is being able to more easily maintain that local presence. Regardless of the size of the business itself
• Reduction in cost for the company’s overall expenses. This is particularly true for SIP VoIP services that are specifically designed for a businesses
• It offers lower cost calling, all on net calls are free
• It’s much easier to scale up or down than other options, making it very future proof
• SIP trunking makes moving locations easy, you can easily take your phone number with you while moving offices or even while traveling
• More resilient as network outages have much less impact, as incoming calls can easily be routed to other locations
• It’s ideal for any sized business with at least 10 physical phones
• SIP is the best choice for any business that has an international location

How Many SIP Trunks Do You Need?

The number of SIP Trunks is determined by a few factors.

1. Firstly decide how many concurrent calls does your business need? As a typical rule of thumb, you’ll need approximately one SIP trunk for each 2-3 users
2. Your Internet connection is an important consideration. SIP Trunks do consume bandwidth. Depending upon the quantity of phone calls and need for data bandwidth. We recommend that you have either FTTC or GEA (please refer to the Broadband tab for explanation). The IntraLAN team can advise on the best connectivity for your situation

How Much Will SIP Trunking Cost Me?

Please contact our sales team today to find out how you can benefit from SIP and the reduced cost as an alternative to ISDN.