ITXC has begun offering a “VoIPLink” service that help carriers establish and maintain VoIP-to-VoIP network interconnections. The VoIPLink service helps to bridge traffic between carriers by providing interoperability between otherwise incompatible VoIP gateways, softswitches, and customer-premise equipment. ITXC currently supports pre-engineered interfaces with ten different SIP or H.323 VoIP infrastructure vendors and dozens of different equipment, software and network configurations.
The VoIPLink service has been in development with increasing amounts of production traffic for several months. ITXC said approximately 160 carriers are already directly connected through its VoIPLink. http://www.itxc.com
- In August 2003, NexTone Communications announced that ITXC had deployed its Multiprotocol Session Controller in the ITXC global VoIP network. The NexTone equipment enables secure and flexible interconnection between VoIP networks regardless of a network’s call control protocol, equipment vendor, or internal architecture. The Multiprotocol Session Controller on the border of ITXC.net serves as an intermediary to affiliate VoIP networks, providing dynamic call-admission control, SIP/H.323 signaling interworking and network address translation (NAT) capabilities. The NexTone solution also eliminates many of the T.38 fax interoperability issues that are common among different equipment vendors’ VoIP gateways. NexTone Communications is based in Germantown, Maryland.
- In Q4 2003, ITXC carried over one billion minutes of international voice traffic over its IP network.