BandTel stands alone in an ITSP market that makes many promises on transforming the way businesses structure their telecommunications networks. No other service provider today can successfully terminate VoIP to PSTN calls worldwide with the quality of a toll call - or more appropriately named, a Flawless BandTel Call. With unmatched architecture, failover, and echo cancellation, BandTel's Virtual Central Office (VCO) has gone where no other ITSP has gone before - to a QoS that can proudly rival legacy telecommunications. BandTel was founded in 2004 as a spin-off of CD Communications Service - a leader in providing Internet Voice Response (IVR) applications to shopping centers across the U.S. BandTel was launched in an effort to facilitate the integration of VoIP communication within large organizations.

As a leading global provider of next-generation VoIP termination to the PSTN, its solutions are uniquely designed for high volume telecom users worldwide such as Call Centers, Enterprise users, Teleconferencing Companies and Internet Voice Response (IVR) users. BandTel's Virtual Central Office provides large-scale, global organizations with the high quality, cost-effective telephony system needed to compete in today's ever-changing business technology landscape.

BandTel is dedicated to ensuring its customers and partners alike have access to the most reliable, end-to-end VoIP service available on the market today. BandTel guarantees uninterrupted service with its fault tolerant, state-of-the-art VoIP network and SIP Soft Switch technology. Its new N-Plus architecture was designed to solve the throughput and redundancy problems on high capacity SIP-based networks and eliminate any single point of failure. The company's unique ability to connect call systems via a trunk-to-trunk transfer, combined with the ability to cost-effectively terminate calls to and from any location in the world, instantly unites global businesses with multiple users in various locations.

What are the Benefits of SIP Trunking?

BandTel provides SIP trunking. SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol. SIP is a protocol (set of formal rules) that provides the basic signals used to initiate (hence session initiation protocol), manage, and terminate communications sessions.

Location Independence - Traditional voice is attached to a physical location - SIP VoIP flexibility allows call routing to any IP address worldwide including home offices and soft phones.

Pure IP connection - A SIP Trunk is a VoIP trunk that uses SIP for session control, creating a Pure IP connection. This is important for 3 reasons:

1. The VoIP trunk is now a SIP trunk, which can handle multi-media (voice data, video and mobile).
2. The circuit-switched hand-off to the PSTN is not needed; lowering costs:
   • Fewer hardware interfaces
   • Fewer PSTN circuits
   • Fewer hardware interfaces to maintain
3. Direct SIP trunking to IP PBXs and soft switches means no additional hardware to achieve end-to-end VoIP.

BandTel was selected because of the backbone of the network, excellent customer services and the willingness to work with Technalign partners and provide the services needed.