Progress Telecom and Stealth Communications have allied to provide a voice-grade interconnection service for carriers and enterprise customers deploying VoIP technology. The solution allows companies to terminate calls directly to other VoIP networks, reducing — or even eliminating — termination fees found in traditional telephone environments.
Broadband service provider Progress is a Preferred Alliance Carrier to the Voice Peering Fabric (VPF), a VoIP minutes exchange owned and operated by Stealth. The agreement between the companies expands the availability of Stealth Communication's VPF and its associated VPF ENUM Registry using Progress Telecom's extensive fiber optic-based Ethernet network.
"Using Progress Telecom's fiber optic backbone, we can now address the demands of a much broader market," says Shrihari Pandit, CEO and founder of Stealth Communications. "Now, with a single Progress Telecom Voice Grade Ethernet circuit, members can access our exchange to establish peer-to-peer connections for their VoIP traffic without having to establish a physical collocation. But what's really exciting is that they will also have access to our VPF ENUM Registry, which represents the convergence of the public switched telephone network and the Internet. It maps telephone numbers to Internet addresses using a look-up architecture similar to DNS. Where calls are between two VoIP phones, the VPF ENUM Registry enables those calls to stay within the IP domain end-to-end, completely bypassing the PSTN. Today, the VPF ENUM Registry has over 2 million phone numbers and continues to grow at a rapid pace."
This service is now available at Progress Telecom's major points of presence and will be expanded to other national and international locations.
