Voice Peering

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In a move to deliver low-cost, high-quality VoIP exchange for its customers, Sprint (News - Alert) announced last month, a new Partner Interexchange Network, or “PIN,” that company officials said will offer “a cost-effective alternative for those companies looking to lower long-distance fees.”

 

“As more companies adopt VoIP and migrate away from traditional TDM voice services, there is a definite need for affordable, scalable technologies to securely exchange voice traffic,” Dan Dooley, president of Sprint Wholesale Solutions said.

 

With the new PIN offering, partners of the Sprint community can directly exchange VoIP service between one another - gaining business-to-business wholesale exchange of voice traffic and lowering access termination fees as well as lowering or eliminating LEC tandem fees.

 

Communications network expert Hunter Newby (News - Alert), recently blogged about the key highlights of this “big move for Sprint and VoIP Peering (News - Alert)”  as a major US carrier is endorsing VoIP peering.

 

Voice peering solutions are beneficial because they make it possible to bypass the public switched telephone network or, “PSTN,” and instead use VoIP to forward calls directly to other provider networks.

 

“Major IXC's have been peering VoIP traffic for several years now, but even with that there remains some skepticism of VoIP Peering being a real service. Maybe this announcement will put an end to that,” Newby wrote.