[February 14, 2007] PortaOne, Voxbone Complete Interoperability Testing Tweet PortaOne, a leading global software infrastructure vendor for ITSPs, and Voxbone (News - Alert), a leading provider of international VoIP origination services to carriers, ITSPs, calling card operators, call centers and other businesses, today announced the completion of interoperability testing between their respective offerings. As a result of this certification, customers can safely select PortaOne’s PortaSwitch billing, provisioning and switching software solutions in combination with Voxbone’s high-quality call origination services and benefit from an easy-to-use, cost-effective solution for SIP trunking. According to Roman Khalenkov, sales and marketing director at PortaOne, “The completion of interoperability testing between PortaOne and Voxbone is another step forward in a constant process of helping our customers, the new generation carrier-grade service providers, to get to the market smoothly and fast while eliminating high capital requirements for telecommunication business infrastructure.” PortaOne’s flagship product PortaSwitch is an IP Multimedia Subsystem or a software-based communication services and subscriber management platform, allowing modern communication network providers to unify voice, data and fax traffic within a single network. A ready replacement for Class 5 switches, PortaSwitch consists of a soft-switch, billing and provisioning solution and unified messaging application. PortaSwitch is provided with unlimited perpetual license, source code, on-site training, and 6 months of 24/7 technical support and upgrades. More info can be found at http://portaone.com/products/portaswitch/overview/ Voxbone leases international VoIP virtual phone numbers and worldwide origination services via VoIP to organizations in North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific regions. It delivers high-quality call origination and provides the global infrastructure that enables its customers to expand to international markets quickly and efficiently. Using either direct inbound dial (DID) or virtual numbers from Voxbone, for example, customers may receive inexpensive, locally dialed phone calls from 50 countries and 4,000 cities throughout the world. According to Rodrigue Ullens, co-founder of Voxbone, “The integration between PortaOne’s and our offerings is great news for customers. Using our combined offerings, customers can easily and inexpensively establish an international presence virtually anywhere around the world.” About PortaOne (www.portaone.com) PortaOne is a leading global communications infrastructure vendor enabling Internet telephony service providers (ITSPs) and voice network operators to quickly and efficiently implement, manage and deliver a wide range of billing solutions for IP telephony services. The company's products provide a comprehensive range of applications, including Hosted PBX, IP Centrex, and Voice VPN. Established in 1997, PortaOne is a privately held company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada with sales, support, and development offices around the globe. About Voxbone (www.voxbone.com) Voxbone is the leading VoIP carrier providing centralized access to DID and toll-free numbers around the world. Headquarted in Brussels Belgium, it has expanded its VoIP backbone from Europe to America and recently to Asia. The Voxbone network covers more than 4,000 cities in roughly 50 countries and is expanding its coverage. The switchless architecture of the Voxbone network enables customers to realize the benefits of IP communications by rapidly deploying new services with local presence and simultaneously reducing costs. Voice over IP (VoIP) X A real-time communications system that converts voice into digital packets containing media and signaling data that travel over networks using Internet Protocol....more Private Branch Exchange (PBX) X Originally, telephone features were provided by telephone central office switching systems, often called CENTREX. PBX systems emerged as customers wanted to have more calling features and control over...more Internet Protocol (IP) X IP stands for Internet Protocol, a data-networking protocol developed throughout the 1980s. It is the established standard protocol for transmitting and receiving data in packets over the Internet. I...more Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) X SIP is the real-time communication protocol for VoIP. SIP is a signaling protocol for Internet conferencing, telephony, presence, events notification (emergency calling) and instant messaging. SIP...more Unified Messaging X One of the more interesting applications for multi-media messaging which has been around for almost a decade but not widely used is visual voice mail. This software allows the user to see their voi...more [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]