XO Communications in collaboration with TMCNet and BroadSoft, will host an interactive webinar on May 12th entitled, "Beyond SIP Trunking - Unify the Enterprise." The event will bring together several SIP trunking experts to discuss the latest industry trends and insights on how distributed enterprises can streamline their managed voice services.

Specifically, the hour-long session will cover topics such as the benefits of SIP trunking services and future trends, how to evaluate the return-on-investment of SIP, as well as things to consider when evaluating SIP trunk service providers. It will also offer an inside glimpse of various enterprise networks before and after SIP trunking was implemented.

The webinar will feature the insights and perspective of leading SIP trunking experts, including:

• Lisa Pierce, founder and president of Strategic Networks Group, a consultancy dedicated to improving the quality of emerging telecommunications and IT services, and the service experience that business customers receive from key suppliers. She brings a unique expertise in a wide range of network technology including SIP trunking, unified communications, broadband access, managed network services, among other things.
• Steve Carter, senior product manager at XO Communications, led the launch of the company's SIP trunking services, including XO Enterprise SIP, which won the INTERNET TELEPHONY Product of the Year Award in 2009.
• Alex Doyle, senior director of global solutions marketing at BroadSoft, has been intricately involved in the development of the BroadWorks application platform and has been responsible for product solution management of BroadSoft's business and consumer applications.
• Erin Harrison, senior editor of TMCnet, is a seasoned reporter and editor and covers IP communications, information technology and other related topics for TMCnet.

Webinar Details: Beyond SIP Trunking - Unify the Enterprise When: May 12th at 2:00 p.m. EDT Who Should Attend: Both technical and non-technical audiences from U.S.-based businesses Registrations: Complimentary Webinar - Click here to register for the webinar.

XO Enterprise SIP XO Communications is an industry leader in SIP trunking solutions for distributed enterprises. Its newest solution, XO Enterprise SIP, enables customers to utilize a centralized IP-PBX architecture in key locations to deliver VoIP services to branch locations across an existing wide area network or using the XO MPLS IP-VPN solution. Moreover, utilizing XO Enterprise SIP customers can achieve a number of benefits including:

• Lower Total Cost of Ownership by using a single or fewer IP-PBXs to support all locations;
• Reduced Operating Costs by not having to maintain costly PRI facilities or local voice trunks at each location, and eliminating the operating expense of managing separate voice and data networks;
• Greater Flexibility by allowing locations to burst above their normal call capacity and sharing idle voice trunk capacity from other locations across the enterprise;
• Increased Efficiency in network management through simplified and converged network operations, significantly less effort to connect new locations to the public switched telephone network;
• Business Continuity with redundant Enterprise SIP connections and the ability to automatically re-route calls to alternate locations;
• Extensive Nationwide Availability of XO VoIP services in all 50 states and more than 2,700 cities.