ITXC, one of the world’s largest carriers in terms of minutes of international voice traffic carried over IP, selected the Cisco AS5000 Universal Gateway and the Cisco PGW 2200 Softswitch VoIP platform to upgrade its existing network. ITXC’s legacy switches and older equipment from other vendors currently part of the existing network footprint are being taken out of service and replaced with equipment from Cisco. ITXC.net will originate and terminate voice and fax traffic using the Cisco AS5000 Universal Gateways. The Cisco Softswitch enables SS7 interconnect worldwide. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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- ITXC.net connects over 175 countries. It has three SuperPoPs, located in London, Los Angeles, and Jersey City, NJ, that serve as call traffic aggregation hubs with switches, hundreds of IP telephony gateways, and connections to multiple IP backbones and PSTNs. ITXC collocates its equipment on the premises of major carrier customers to connect them to ITXC.net. The network also features a dynamic routing and quality monitoring mechanism that can automatically detect problems such as congestion and reroute traffic across the public Internet in mid-call. ITXC’s capital expenditures for 2002 was expected to be in the $25 to $30 million range.
- For comparison, iBasis reported carrying 748 million minutes of voice traffic over its international IP network during Q4 2002.
- In December 2002, Global Crossing said it is now carrying one billion minutes per month on its VoIP network. For all of Q3 2002, Global Crossing carried 2.3 billion minutes of VoIP.