2011 Touted the Best Year for SIP Trunking Says Leading Communication System Provider Tpad

Leading communications provider Tpad earlier announced its confidence that SIP trunking services will reach its all-time high demand in 2011.

It announced that with companies all over the world seeking to improve existing telephone systems, it is only a matter of time for SIP trunking to be integrated fully into the telecommunications industry and deployed in business enterprises worldwide. "We are positive that this new service we provide will become widely accepted, especially for companies that make and take calls from clients, local and international," says Tpad CEO Tahir Mohsan.



SIP Trunking is a telecommunications technology that allows convergence of voice and data into one single, merged line. The SIP trunk will serve as a converter that enables the data network to access voice traffic through Internet connectivity. With SIP Trunking, companies can enjoy local and long distance calls, video conference, E911, caller ID, and directory listing features with their current telephony systems without shelling out big investments. Calls are specifically routed through a VoIP network so call charges are significantly reduced. Tpad Marketing Manager Steven Johns adds, "This new technology allows enhanced use of our clients' existing IP or IP-PBX phones without the need for additional physical hardware like PSTN circuits to convert TDM to voice."

Tpad also announced that their SIP Trunking services come in a variety of packaging, offer varying budget options for companies large and small. "We aim to increase customer confidence in SIP technology, so we are offering our services at highly competitive prices to suit existing and potential clients' telephone solution needs," says Simon Jones, Sales Director of Tpad. "In fact, our clients will be pleasantly surprised to know that with just a small amount of investment, we can offer ROI in less than six months from initial deployment," Jones adds.



SIP Trunking is highly recommended for enterprises like BPO or multinational companies with highly-distributed network and a global clientele. SIP trunking can significantly decrease the cost of communications within and outside the business by utilizing better connectivity. As Tpad CEO puts it, "With the increased globalization of businesses worldwide and the trying economy, this technology will be widespread this year."

About Tpad
Tpad is a leading communications solutions provider in the UK. It has years of experience in offering only the most advanced telecom services to clients. It has recently partnered with Internet service provider Supanet to provide enhanced telephony systems integrated through network connectivity. Tpad offers a wide range of solutions including VoIP, IP-PBX, SIP Trunking, video conferencing, and other telephone solutions while delivering savings of as much as 65% over traditional telephone solutions.

For more information on Tpad telecom services and what SIP trunking can do to your business, you can visit Tpad's website at http://www.tpadbusiness.co.uk/ or call them at 0845 122 1746. Quotations and inquiries are guaranteed to be attended to within 48 hours. Deployment and installation of your SIP Trunk can happen in as short as 4 weeks. "We revolutionize your communication lines with your customers, contact us today."

Tpad and Supanet to Launch Premium SIP Trunking Services to SME's

What is Tpad SIP Trunking / What are Tpad SIP Trunks?

A SIP trunk is a service offered by a supplier such as Supanet that permits businesses that have a Telephone PBX to use Voice-over-IP (VoIP), outside the enterprise network by using the Internet connection. The SIP Trunk enables connection to the standard PSTN and Mobile telephone networks via Supanet or our partner Tpad, thus eliminating the need for expensive multiple ISDN lines and also benefiting from lower cost calls. A business would keep their existing phone system but look to gain benefit from a SIP Trunk, especially if they were making a large amount of phone calls on a month by month basis and/or their call spend was high.



SIP trunks can offer additional significant cost-savings for enterprises, eliminating the need for local PSTN gateways, costly ISDN BRIs (Basic Rate Interfaces) or PRIs (Primary Rate Interfaces).



Free Supanet SIP Trunking Offer
Supanet in partnership with Tpad are able to offer customers FREE SIP Trunking with some of our connectivity solutions. Thus if you are currently paying for a large number of lines e.g. using ISDN 30 you can switch to supanet and make great savings. Please ask our staff for details of this amazing offer.

Elements of SIP Trunk
There are three components necessary to successfully deploy SIP trunks: a PBX with a SIP-enabled trunk side, an enterprise edge device understanding SIP and an Internet telephony or SIP trunking service provider (such as Supanet with its partner Tpad).

The PBX
In most cases the PBX is an IP-based PBX, communicating with all endpoints over IP, but it may just as well be a traditional digital or analog PBX. The sole requirement is that an interface for SIP trunking connectivity is available.

The enterprise border element
The PBX on the LAN connects to the Service Provider via the enterprise border element. The enterprise edge component can either be a firewall with complete support for SIP or an edge device connected to the firewall, handling the traversal of the SIP traffic.



The Service Provider
On the Internet, Service Provider provides connectivity to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) for communication with mobile and fixed phones.

Call Handling via SIP Trunk
Once you get this service, your private telephone system (called PBX) will no longer be directly linked to the public telephone system (called PSTN). Instead, your PBX will be connected to a SIP softswitch which is also connected to the internet.

When you make a phone call, this softswitch will determine whether your call is for a PSTN number or another SIP enabled telephone system. After that, the softswitch will then route your call to wherever it is directed. The advantage here is that your phone call will not travel through the typical telephone lines used by the public telephone system - thus you will not need them and can save money.



A SIP / IAX Trunk can actually handle more than just one phone call at a given time. Because it uses the internet, it can handle as many phone calls as the bandwidth capacity allows. So if your company conducts a lot of phone calls every day, then getting a SIP trunk will surely lessen your bills.

Also, SIP trunking removes the complicated abundance of hardware and wirings just to support the flow of calls, because the only thing needed is to use the servers of the chosen Service Provider.

Features and benefits of Tpad SIP /IAX2 Trunking:

* Cost Reduction - costs can be dramatically reduced through the reduction of the number of lines required; and calls are free when they are made across the SIP Trunking links.
* Business Continuity - in the event that you can't access your telephone, automatic failover means that calls are automatically re-routed to an alternative location.
* Not Geographically tied - you can retain your existing number range and add other area code numbers as required.
* Flexibility - SIP / IAX2 Trunking can be quickly scaled up or down on a per line basis so you can easily meet peaks and troughs in demand.
* Central Management - you will no longer need a separate line to each of your locations using this virtualised technology, which means network infrastructure management will be simpler.

Supanet's SIP Trunking Solution

Most of our customers obtain two main benefits when using SIP Trunks.

1.The lines (channels) are virtual and can expand / contract as your business requirements demand. Your inbound numbers can be directed to a SIP Trunk away from an ISDN 2/ISDN 30 connection for which you are paying for each line irrelevant if the line is in use or not. Our SIP channel carries no recurring charge, only the cost of the call being routed over it. As long as you stay with Supanet there is no charge for these channels (lines).

2. Low cost IP call rates, due to the ability of our Group to negotiate the best rate card possible for your business we can deliver significant savings when compared to standard business rates from the more traditional providers.

Supanet currently has a special offer with FREE SIP Trunking with selected Connectivity Solutions. Call our staff for details.

Supanet & Tpad - Working Together

Supanet works with Tpad.com (www.tpad.com/business) when designing a communications platform for our clients. The linkages between the capabilities of a clients data infrastructure and being able to utilise this for Voice use is also where Tpad, as a specialist in this area, really make the difference for the benefit of your business.

Traditionally there has been a split between an organisations data and voice infrastructure. ISDN lines have been used for voice and separate data circuits (ADSL to Private Circuits) have been used solely for data use. These walls are now being broken down and more and more business are moving to what is called a 'converged' or 'shared' infrastructure.



The benefits of this being reduced price (1 network instead of 2) and moving to an IP based voice platform that both saves money on calls and delivers increased functionality like video, call recording and remote user inclusion.

Call 0845 122 1746 or visit http://www.tpadbusiness.co.uk or http://www.supanetbusiness.com or http://www.tpad.com

Tpad provides PM+M state-of-the-art Business Telephone System

In October 2010, PM+M Chartered Accountants were planning a move to new premises on Challenge Way, Blackburn (Lancashire). This move from Central Blackburn was in itself a significant project for the firm who were moving offices to more modern premises.

PM+M are one of the leading business advisory and accountancy firms in the North West of England and has grown steadily through natural growth and mergers with other firms to become a broad based provider of advice to businesses and individuals.

Due to their active participation in Praxity - a global alliance ofindependent firms, they are in a very strong position, enabling them toprovide services to the highest of international standards.



For PM+M communication is key, and a heavy reliance is put upon their IT infrastructure to deliver the highest standards for their clients and their own workforce.

The move presented several challenges, not least of which, was remaining fully functional for their clients. The move provided an ideal opportunity to improve their IT data connection and review their telephony requirements.



PM+M had a 70 user Cisco phone system which was at capacity and did not provide them with the features and functionality they required to move their business forward. In addition to this they were limited by a 2Mb private circuit and 16 ISDN lines.

Tpad Telephony Solution:

After meeting with Tpad and their solutions design team for a full communications review and audit, PM+M opted for the latest in IP telephone systems with integration to their in house CRM platform and door entry system. The Tpad solution offered technical compatibility aswell as attractive and commercial relationship.

The communications review and audit highlighted where PM+M were currently spending money, identified system inefficiencies and also provided the future plan for PM+M, taking into account the shape of what future success would look like for them.



After this review was conducted, a series of recommendations were presented to PM+M and they chose a Hosted Platform solution. This platform will ultimately service PM+M's second site in Burnley and also allows Home Workers / Field Workers to access the phone system remotely, with simple logins and security permissions.

PMM case study Commercially, the whole solution Tpad recommended was within budget and delivered an increased capacity of data services, which is not normally experienced at our new location. Based on the projected savings on calls and line rental alone, PM+M is expecting a return on investment within 12 to 18 months from the date of installation.

PM+M Feedback and Comments:

Stephen Anderson - Partner
" The design and installation of the system went very smoothly with Tpad providing a very responsive and focussed service before, during and after our physical move. Now that we are settled into our new environment, the system gives us cost certainty along with flexibility and the opportunity to grow without major capital investment. The support we receive from Tpad has continued to be responsive."

Colin Emmett - Director of IT Services
" The personal touch from the implementation team provided me with so much confidence during the installation and the initial live testing period, knowing that the Tpad Team understood our requirements and could deliver a tailored solution to our specification. The continued proactive approach from the Tpad team means that any refining we need to make or issues we encounter are efficiently and speedily resolved."



To get a FREE communications audit and FREE Telephone Quote then visit http://www.tpad.com/business or call (+44) 01254 122 1746 now.

Tpad To Make 1000 Business Telephone Systems Available Free to UK Business

Tpad, The Business Telephony Specialists are to introduce a new model for Business Telephone Sales in the UK market. Tpad Small Business Systems, up to 20 users, will be made available free to 1000 UK businesses in Phase 1 of the program. This will be done on a first register basis, and businesses will be urged to register on the tpad.com/business website in order to qualify, when the offer is launched.



In the past, state-of-the-art telephony features were previously only found in multi-million pound systems, and only afforded by large corporations. Recently, new technology has enabled such features to be accessed, for example as a service, at £30 per user, per month. However, Tpad has gone one step further and made these (and associated on-site telephony hardware) available FREE for small business, providing they switch their lines and broadband to Tpad. Furthermore, Tpad are providing a guarantee that users will not pay any more than their existing suppliers for the lines, broadband and calls (and in most cases will pay much less).Tpad already sells a wide range of advanced systems to large companies, and this offer has been made available to small business only, and is limited to 2 User, 4 User, 8 User, 12 User and 20 User systems.



Tpad Sales Director Simon Jones commented “Businesses can get the latest Business Telephone System, any size up to 20 users, which would normally cost up to £21,600 absolutely free, when they switch their broadband, lines and calls to us. Even this condition is a benefit to most businesses as instead of paying another supplier for the lines and broadband, they pay us, and in most cases they pay much less! There really is no catch in the deal, as we guarantee this”



He added “Many businesses want the next generation phone system that allows them to be more productive and delivers the latest features such as Call Recording, Fax-to-email and ability for staff to work from home, or indeed from anywhere whilst giving the impression they are in the office. Now, with Tpad they can have all of this free. There really is no reason for any business not to take up this offer”

The core of all the Tpad Small Business Telephone Solutions is the Colossus Advanced Telephone Platform. Colossus consists of clusters of very powerful computers hosted at Tpad data centres, that provide the ultimate, future-proof, scalable telephone platform. Now, using Tpad lines, small businesses can easily link to Colossus and benefit from features that were previously only available on multi-million pound corporate telephone systems.

John Free, Group Marketing Director commented “The features and benefits provided by Tpad’s Colossus Platform and the complete Tpad Small Business Telephone Solution can indeed be provided by other large telephone companies. The key difference is price. Tpad does not charge anything, as its model is based upon acquiring large numbers of small business customers that could purchase other IT services in the future. In contrast, other companies charge for the telephone platform and also for the telephone hardware at the customer site!”

About Tpad

Tpad is an International company which has its Headquarters in Jersey, and has service centres and presence in many countries including the UAE, India, Hong Kong, USA, UK and Canada.

In the UK, Tpad provides advanced telephony services for businesses, the public sector and corporates. Until recently the core product has been large IP PBX based business telephone systems (50 users to 500+ users and multiple sites). Tpad also has an International consumer arm providing low cost International Services to all major countries.

Over the past 3 years, Tpad has been investing in next generation telephone technology with the development of a powerful central telephone platform called Colossus that resides in Tpad data centres and that can be accessed from anywhere.

For further details please contact:

business@tpad.com or call 01254 867325