Wholesale service provider Voxbone says it is giving carriers more flexibility and control by throwing open its switches to customers, allowing them to “actually change the way our switches behave,” CEO François Struman said in a statement.
Along with international transport, Brussels-based Voxbone provides direct-inward dial numbers, which allow organizations to run a small set of dedicated phone lines and from those give each person or workstation in the PBX direct individual phone numbers. The new browser-based configuration tools allow carrier customers to customize their solutions in terms of cost-versus-voice-quality, choosing primary and back-up SIP endpoints, routing incoming traffic, balancing loads, and so on.
The new features are designed to maximize carriers’ ability to offer cost-effective and highly targeted DID services.
To date, Voxbone has bucked the recession that is pummeling telecom companies worldwide. In 2008, the six-year-old company says, its revenue grew by 70 percent year-over-year, thanks mainly to increasing demand for local calling service in foreign markets and cheap international transport.
Voxbone also led the charge at the International Telecommunications Union for creating a new “iNum” code for international IP calls, allowing VoIP subscribers to reach other subscribers anywhere in the world by dialing the 883 prefix rather than a traditional country code.
