Research: Interoperability issues still hold back SIP trunking adoption

New research suggests that interoperability issues and a lack of standardization limit the overall adoption of SIP trunking. A study from Research and Markets said that while SIP trunking has seen steady adoption over the past five years, the adoption rate has not met predictions, hamstringing service providers from gaining deeper market penetration.

Infonetics Research, earlier this month, projected a 52 percent compound annual growth rate for SIP trunking between 2011 and 2015, saying it, along with hosted business VoIP, would help drive the VoIP services market to grow some 17 percent in 2011 alone.

But Research and Markets contends that while industry organizations like the SIP Forum and SIP Connect eventually will eliminate the need for multiple certifications on different platforms; service providers, in the meantime, would have to engage in costly and time consuming interoperability testing with platform vendors.

Still, channel partners are beginning to push SIP trunking to their customers more aggressively as they become more familiar with the technology, helping them to offer a more comprehensive package of services and solutions.

As technology and SIP trunking services reach the mass market because of their value proposition, service providers are continuously simplifying and automating the provisioning process to alleviate the cost and hassle of SIP trunking implementations. Improvements in service management and billing capabilities also are helping boost adoption.

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