Alan Percy is Director of Market Development at AudioCodes, a leading provider of Voice over IP Telephony enabling technology. In this role, Mr. Percy is responsible for identifying market trends and building relationships to foster new business opportunities. Mr. Percy joined AudioCodes in 2001 and brings over two decades of experience in the telecommunications, networking and wireless equipment industries. Mr. Percy is a frequent industry speaker and contributes to a number of industry journals and blogs.

Risk aversion, long-term contracts, features/functions and interoperability are just some of the factors keeping more users from adopting SIP Trunks.
It's a rare organization that completely cuts over to SIP trunks for 100% of their telephony services.
How do we break the almost infinite cycle of continuous interoperability testing?
Let's move past the technical issues and talk about a far more difficult challenge--the politics of SIP Interoperability.
The problem is that RFC 3261 that defines SIP has become "everything to everyone" and bloated in both size and in flexibility.
SIP trunks are not all created equal. There are some very significant differences in the way they are sold and the services they support.