The traditional phone system that once connected the East Coast to the West Coast at a crushing rate per minute is falling apart. Even the phone companies aren't making much of an effort to fix it. Some of the blame falls onto cellular phones. In America, around 95% of the population owns a cell phone. Smartphones almost always come with unlimited long distance. For businesses, though, the future lies with SIP phone services that route calls across the Internet. One of the big reasons is that VoIP technologies, like SIP, are all but future proof. Before we jump into why SIP is future proof, let's take a quick look at the essential of SIP. Let's go! What is SIP Phone? SIP or session initiation protocol is one way of connecting calls over the Internet. It's one kind of VoIP. …show more content…
While some of the switching gets done digitally now, the whole system still relies on wires connecting physical locations. When the wires get damaged, the system fails. Not a stunning endorsement for a technology invented over 140 years ago. Computer and internet technology continues to advance at a blistering pace. Fiber internet service promises to make home internet speeds ten times as fast or faster. Modems and routers that can take advantage of those speeds will flood the market. All of that hardware improvement will only make SIP more reliable and accessible. That's just the underlying technology that makes calling over the Internet feasible. SIP providers will do everything they can to improve their equipment. Barring that they'll license or buy equipment that takes advantage of those advancements. For example, faster speed and higher bandwidths will make it practical for a SIP system to offer more individual lines to an enterprise. Say the old system supported 6 individual lines in the building. Those improvements could make 12 or 18 lines a standard offering. Service