Web Hosting Provider XO Launches Service for VoIP Providers

XO Communications, Inc. (www.xo.com) today announced the availability of its termination service for service providers that offer voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to businesses and consumers.

"This service demonstrates our commitment to being a leading provider of VoIP services," said Ernie Ortega, president of carrier sales at XO Communications.

XO VoIP Termination allows service providers to terminate voice calls to domestic locations in the United States using softswitch technology deployed across the XO national IP network.

XO VoIP Termination is one of several new XOIP services that will leverage the company's national IP network and softswitch technology to offer business and carrier customers next-generation IP-based voice and data services.

XO VoIP Termination enables broadband telephony providers and cable companies to hand over their VoIP traffic directly to XO for termination to the public switched telephone network.

The traffic passes through an XO softswitch gateway and is carried across the XO IP network to an XO softswitch gateway nearest the final destination of the call. The traffic is then converted by an XO softswitch to a format accepted by the terminating local service provider.

XO has one of the industry's largest deployments of Sonus Networks softswitches, which provides an IP-based switching platform to support both traditional circuit-switched voice traffic and packet-based VoIP traffic.