StarVox Releases VoIP Busines Trunking With VPN 2.5

May 29, 2002 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telephony network software provider StarVox Inc. (StarVox.com) announced on Tuesday that it has released StarVox VoIP Business Trunking with VPN 2.5, the latest version of the company’s IP telephony solution.

Among the features of the new solution, says StarVox, is support for carrier-based decision making of call routing, which provides Voice over IP carriers new opportunities for VoIP wholesaling, in addition to the retail services such as local and long distance calling that were supported in earlier releases of the product.

StarVox VoIP Business Trunking with VPN 2.5 employs Unicast Prefix-Based Routing, a new implementation of StarVox technology that directs calls through specific gatekeepers and gateways based on definable criteria such as call source or dialed number. The ability to discriminate in routing decisions, says StarVox, provides flexibility in multiple carrier call handling and allows service providers to support several business models on the same telephony platform.

"StarVox VoIP Business Trunking with VPN 2.5 represents a significant and unique value proposition for wholesale providers of VoIP services," says Al Wokas, President and CEO of StarVox, Inc. "They can put idle capacity to work in the wholesale market, grow into retail business services such as local and long distance calling, and do it all on the same technology platform. What’s more, this new version enables providers to sell transit services to both VoIP and traditional carriers with no change in infrastructure."

StarVox says the product’s Unicast Prefix-Based routing supports virtually any third-party VoIP gatekeeper, allowing users to execute toll bypass between any combination of VoIP and PSTN retail and wholesale carriers.

The StarVox VoIP Business Trunking with VPN 2.5 architecture incorporates a range of features, including HP’s OpenCall multiservice controller 1.2, PSTN gateway flexible routing, forced on-net, IP phone support, VoIP VPN virtual on-net and IP-based voice without a traditional class 5 switch.

StarVox says its solution offer easy transition to next-generation telephony for existing telephone carriers. Deploying a StarVox-based solution alongside an existing CO switch allows ILECs and CLECs to expand their networks with IP-based segments.

And according to the company, StarVox VoIP Business Trunking with VPN enables a service provider or carrier to handle incoming and outgoing calls as well as mandatory services like 911 and 411. The VPN component company branches, remote offices and telecommuters over a virtual private IP network.