The Vinculum Advantage
The overwhelming shift from circuit-based business phone networks to VoIP has prompted Vinculum to develop its global network using the Nextone MSW and Sansay (softswitch), which allows for VoIP interconnections with its customers and suppliers. Vinculum has rapidly developed a VoIP network with coverage in more than 200 countries. Vinculum provides service to more than 150 long distance carriers around the world, and the company partners with more than 200 vendors/suppliers who provide termination services in their respective countries.
About Softswitch
The Nextone MSW and Sansay offer the following advantages:
- Inter-operable with the most commonly used VoIP routers available, including Cisco, NuEra, Clarent, Quintum, VocalTel, and Lucent.
- Capable of H.323 and SIP signaling.
- May be integrated with the Fastlink billing and traffic reporting system used by Vinculum.
Our Billing System
Vinculum fully understands the importance of providing customers,
agents, and route partners with accurate billing statements, reports
and call records. Therefore, Vinculum has chosen the Fastlink System
for billing and traffic reporting for its ability to provide the
following information and benefits:
- Real-time traffic data and summaries
- Traffic summaries by country, customer and supplier
- Summaries for each destination, including call attempts, call completions, ASR percentages, total duration, average duration per call, total revenue, revenue per minute, total cost, cost per minute, total margin, and margin per minute
- Accurate, timely, and flexible billing
- Comprehensive history of all rates offered to all customers and from all vendors
- Accurate and flexible system for changing customer rates and sending rate change notifications
- A complete least-cost routing database
- Web-based system allows easy user name and password access to Vinculum customers, vendors and agents worldwide
VoIP Advantages
For Vinculum customers and international providers/partners, the advantages of a VoIP interconnection are many:
- Quick turn-up time for quicker revenue
- Quicker and easier augmentation to existing capacity
- Lower interconnection cost
- Lower direct or indirect operating costs
- Removes geographic boundaries by reaching carriers on a global basis—virtually anywhere Internet access is available
In summary, Vinculum’s state-of-the-art network and billing technology positions the company to be an impact player in the international wholesale marketplace.