Stealth Communications said its annualized run-rate for its Voice Peering Fabric service reached more then 200 billion minutes on August 2, up from 100 billion minutes in October, 2006.
Voice Peering Fabric is a marketplace where service providers and enterprises can exchange voice and telephony-related services. This creates an economical traffic exchange environment that lets members connect directly with one another, thereby avoiding unnecessary delays and relays.
Stealth said in its announcement that the record growth in phone call peering is being driven by demand for methods of routing phone calls using VoIP
technology, and also by concerns about operating expenses associated with the use of legacy technologies in a very competitive telecommunications marketplace
“VoIP growth has been phenomenal this year, particularly consumer VoIP,” TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert said in a statement. “We project that consumer VoIP subscribers will grow more than 70 percent this year, and that VoIP traffic and termination will grow even faster.”
Shirhari Pandit, president and CEO of Stealth, boasted that no other peering network beside Voice Peering Fabric has demonstrated a stronger commitment to helping enterprises and carriers to efficiently route VoIP traffic.
“Beyond the billions of minutes, VPF
streamlines the interconnection process between organizations and provides an open marketplace with full control of security and quality,” Pandit said in a statement.
Voice Peering Fabric was launched in 2003 with a unique business model that Stealth said has changed the landscape of the telecom industry by allowing phone calls to be moved entirely into the IP
domain, bypassing both public phone systems and the public Internet.
Security and quality are two hallmarks of VPF. This is why many enterprises, government agencies and service providers have chosen to make VPF their platform for buying, selling and exchanging telephony-related services.
To learn more about Voice Peering Fabric, please visit Stealth’s TMCnet.com channel, Voice Peering.
Mae Kowalke previously wrote for Cleveland Magazine in Ohio and The Burlington Free Press in Vermont. To see more of her articles, please visit Mae Kowalke’s columnist page. Also check out her Wireless Mobility blog.
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