2023 Workplace Collaboration MetriStar – SIP Trunking
Published on: August 15, 2023
Author: Irwin Lazar, President and Principal Analyst
Two providers earned Metrigy’s 2023 MetriStar Award for SIP Trunking. The value of the MetriStar Award is that it is based on both customer ratings of providers and quantitative metrics correlating the use of a vendor’s products and services with measurable business success.
Product Category
SIP Trunking: SIP trunking services provide public switched telephone network (PSTN) connectivity for on-premises as well as hosted and cloud unified communications platforms that support “bring your own carrier” (BYOC) services. Providers typically offer a mix of connectivity options, pricing, and support for existing enterprise-owned session border controllers (SBCs). They may also offer SBC functionally, hosted by the provider, as part of their SIP trunking offering. In addition, SIP trunking providers may offer APIs to support number provisioning and management. Additional options include integrated third-party tools for administration management, security capabilities such as toll-fraud detection and protection against SIP-based attacks, encryption, and performance management to guarantee voice quality.