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SIP Trunking

Connect your PBX to Africa's network.

Replace expensive legacy PSTN lines with HOVA's elastic SIP trunks. Connect your existing Cisco, Avaya, FreePBX, or any SIP-compliant PBX — and gain access to direct carrier connections across 18+ African markets.

60%
Cost reduction vs PSTN
18+
African markets covered
99.99%
Uptime SLA
Elastic channel capacity
Features

Everything you need.

Any SIP PBX supported

Works with Cisco Unified CM, Avaya, 3CX, FreePBX, Asterisk, Microsoft Teams Direct Routing, and any RFC 3261-compliant PBX.

Pan-African DID numbers

Provision local Direct Inward Dial (DID) numbers across 18+ countries — virtual local presence without a physical office.

Elastic capacity

Channels scale up and down with demand. No capacity planning. Pay only for concurrent call channels you actually use.

IP authentication & TLS/SRTP

Secure your trunks with IP allowlisting, TLS signaling encryption, and SRTP media encryption — enterprise-grade security.

Failover & redundancy

Active-active failover with multiple PoPs across Africa. Automatic rerouting on link failure — zero downtime for your call centre.

Call routing rules

Configure time-of-day routing, least-cost routing by destination, and carrier failover rules — all from the HOVA dashboard.

Emergency services (E911/E112)

Compliant emergency calling with location-based routing for businesses operating physical offices across Africa.

CDR & cost reporting

Per-call detail records, real-time cost visibility, and department-level billing split — all in the HOVA dashboard.

Developer-first

Live in minutes.

Simple REST API with SDKs for Node.js, Python, PHP, Go, and Java. Production-ready in minutes.

Webhooks for delivery receipts
99.9% uptime SLA
Global sandbox for testing
Detailed API reference docs
SIP Trunk configuration (FreePBX example)
# HOVA SIP Trunk settings for FreePBX / Asterisk

[hova-trunk]
type=peer
host=sip.hova.africa
port=5060
username=YOUR_TRUNK_USERNAME
secret=YOUR_TRUNK_SECRET
fromuser=YOUR_TRUNK_USERNAME
fromdomain=sip.hova.africa
insecure=port,invite
qualify=yes
nat=yes
transport=tls        ; TLS signaling
encryption=yes       ; SRTP media encryption
context=from-trunk
dtmfmode=rfc2833

; Outbound route pattern: match all international calls
; Prefix HOVA trunk on outbound: _X. via hova-trunk
Use cases

Built for every industry.

Enterprise

Call centre migration

Replace legacy ISDN/PRI lines with elastic SIP channels — reduce line costs by up to 60% with zero hardware change.

Enterprise

Microsoft Teams Direct Routing

Connect Teams Phone to HOVA's PSTN carrier network across Africa — no separate telephony system needed.

Pan-African

Multi-country DID presence

Give each market a local phone number — customers in Lagos, Accra, and Nairobi all call a local number.

Finance

Disaster recovery

HOVA SIP as failover for on-premise PSTN — if your primary circuit drops, calls automatically route via SIP.

Enterprise

Remote & hybrid work

Extend your office PBX to remote employees using a SIP client — same number, same features, anywhere.

BPO

Contact centre scaling

Burst capacity during peak periods without procuring physical lines — SIP channels scale in real time.

Replace your PSTN lines today

SIP trunk provisioning in under 15 minutes. No hardware required.

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