Only a month after launching its offering of tollfree numbers around the world, Voxbone (News - Alert), a provider of international VoIP origination services to carriers, ITSPs, calling card operators, call centers and other businesses, has joined Stealth Communications' Voice Peering Fabric. The partnership will allow Voxbone to exchange voice traffic directly with other VoIP providers. In turn, Voxbone’s participation in the VPF will enable any of its members to gain access to international markets quickly and securely.

As a VPF member, Voxbone can now interconnect with carriers and enterprise to buy, sell and peer DID/termination services across a private network. Additionally, through the use of the VPF ENUM Registry, Voxbone can now send and receive calls with VPF members directly, completely bypassing the public telephone network and the public Internet.

“We are committed to providing our customers with the highest levels of service quality combined with highly competitive pricing,” said Rodrigue Ullens, co-founder of Voxbone. “Joining the VPF is consistent with both of these goals.”

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.

Located in nine U.S. cities and London, the Voice Peering Fabric is an increasingly popular platform for service providers, enterprises and government agencies to buy, sell and peer VoIP traffic and telephony services. VPF is designed as a private voice Internet and functions as an exchange or meet-point for its members to establish peer-to-peer connections in a secure, quality-of-service environment. At current levels, traffic on the VPF is expected to surpass 100 billion minutes, up from 18 billion minutes in 2005.

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Cindy Waxer is a Toronto-based freelance journalist specializing in business and technology. She has written for publications including TIME, Fortune Small Business, Business 2.0, Computerworld, Canadian Business, and Workforce Management. To see more of her articles, please visit Cindy Waxer’s columnist page.