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PAETEC and Stealth in VPF collaboration
TMCnet News
By Jessica Jones, Special to TMCnet
In a deal that brings together two communication players, PAETEC ( News - Alert) Communications and Stealth Communications have announced a collaboration that will see PAETEC connect itself to Stealth Communications’ Voice Peering Fabric (VPF  ).
VPF was launched in 2003 and within three years has become one of the world’s largest peering networks for voice communications and telephony services. Using a large and secure private distributed Ethernet network, VPF bridges the gap between service providers and enterprises distributing various applications or exchanging VoIP traffic in a secure, quality-of-service environment.
VPF is used by service providers and businesses or higher educational institutions. The use of VPF gives its members a way around the constant use of provision circuits each time a new connection is made. As VPF expands, it allows new subscribers the access of wider geographies through a single interconnection.
Announcing the news, Shrihari Pandit, president and CEO of Stealth Communications, said that the deal was beneficial for both parties. “We welcome PAETEC to the VPF Community. The VPF continues to play a key role in reducing operating costs for service providers by moving calls entirely into the IP domain”, he added.
One of the main advantages of the deal for PAETEC is that it can now offer its IP DID Origination services for all the VoIP providers located within the range of VPF. At present VPF is accessible for those residing in U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom.
PAETEC’s IP Termination services are also available within the U.S. while its IP Transit service can be used by any VPF subscriber.
Expressing his delight at the deal, EJ Butler, chief operating officer for PAETEC said, “VoIP providers and end users need the ability to exchange traffic via a quality interconnection infrastructure. Through the VPF, PAETEC can quickly and easily offer VPF members our quality products and services throughout an extensive and rapidly expanding footprint.”
Voice Peering Fabric (VPF) | X | | Imagine that your corporate ethernet LAN-Local Area Network and any other Fortune 500 company LAN can connect via a Voice Peering Facility-Fabric (www.thevpf.com) at 60 Hudson in New York City, 700 So...more |
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 |
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 |
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