Voxbone (News - Alert) has announced support for Inter-Asterisk (News - Alert) exchange protocol (IAX) trunking services at the Astricon 2006 conference. The IAX signaling protocol, from Digium (News - Alert), enables VoIP connections among Asterisk servers and between servers and clients that also use the IAX protocol.

 

Voxbone offers international VoIP origination services to carriers, ITSPs, calling card operators, call centers and other businesses. The company already supports SIP trunking services, which offer customers a choice of standards to meet their international needs. Voxbone leases international VoIP virtual phone numbers and worldwide origination services through VoIP to organizations in both North and South America, Europe and the Asia/Pacific regions.

 

In addition to delivering high-quality call origination services, Voxbone offers global infrastructure to enable customers to expand international markets quickly. Customer may use either direct inbound dial (DID) or virtual numbers from Voxbone to receive inexpensive, locally dialed phone calls from up to 50 countries and 4,000 cities around the world. The company offers a switches architecture to enable customers to benefit from IP communications through rapid rollout of new services along with local presence and the opportunity to simultaneously reduce costs.

 

"In adding support for IAX, we are responding to strong demand from customers,” said Rodrigue Ullens, co-founder of Voxbone. “IAX is completely plug and play, and optimized for Asterisk platforms. It also offers integrated security and consumes less bandwidth while offering the same high quality as SIP. Customers now have a choice of two popular standards from which they can choose."

 

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