PACKETEXCHANGE LAUNCHES VOXIMITY™ AND FACILITATES WORLD‘S FIRST NETWORKED VOICE EXCHANGE
2006-05-16
Stockholm, 16 May, 2006 – Wide area peering innovator, PacketExchange, has announced the creation of VoXimity™ – a leading, private IP backbone which is set to transform the interconnection of European VoIP traffic with all VoIP, fixed, mobile and wireless service providers worldwide.
The move, announced at this week‘s VON Europe event in Stockholm, will create unrivalled EU and trans-Atlantic voice peering opportunities and also see PacketExchange become a Registrar of the brand new SPIDER Registry, - the first and only neutral, secure, industry-managed Global Registry of VoIP numbers, which is underpinned by NetNum.
Made possible through the signing of first VoXimity customer, Arbinet-theexchange Inc – the leading US provider of solutions to simplify the exchange of digital communications, PacketExchange‘s Registrar status is set to offer distinct benefits to wider PacketExchange customers using VoXimity, as only Registrars are allowed to create and administer SPIDER accounts for service providers within the SPIDER Registry. In addition, the company will be able to provide account validation, support and usage billing for their customers.
In common with all PacketExchange products, VoXimity‘s ability to provide secure data communications with minimal delay, packet loss and jitter is down to the company‘s unique ability to bypass the ‘public‘ Internet and thus minimise the service quality compromises that can impact so heavily on the delivery of voice services. The service represents the latest example of PacketExchange‘s ability to prioritise real time media traffic over normal data streams.
VoXimity will be accessible from 45 points of presence (POPs) in Europe and connect to US service providers via a dedicated voice exchange in New York provided by Arbinet. Together the collaboration between the two companies is creating the world‘s first networked voice exchange.
Kieron O’Brien, CEO of PacketExchange commented:
“In a single move we are removing many of the existing geographic limitations of IP telephony and through our SPIDER Registrar status, breaking down the walled garden of number sharing. The rich peering opportunities created through this groundbreaking service and the voice exchange created, will enable more voice data to move between Europe and North America using PacketExchange‘s unique technology to bypass the public Internet. This will come as particular piece of mind for those concerned about the susceptibility of VoIP to automated voice spamming and DOS attacks. VoXimity stands to provide a whole new range of opportunities to the market and provide the QoS necessary to enable PSTN-quality calls.”
PacketExchange will provide the Transport from all current and future European PacketExchange POPs to and from the Arbinet core site in New York for Registry traffic, signalling traffic and the media traffic destined for Arbinet trading Members and for any conversion to TDM. The company will provide this Transport using its Ethernet private line family of products.
