Qwest®
IP Voice 1+ Termination
Your Ideal IP Voice Termination
Provider
Qwest’s expertise in both broadband
and telephony make Qwest an ideal company to provide you with
Internet Protocol (IP) 1+ Voice Termination services. Qwest’s
IP Voice 1+ Termination service is a cost-effective way for
you to terminate telephone calls to over 250 countries while
taking advantage of IP technology. Qwest IP Voice 1+ Termination
service provides an IP-based connection for voice traffic
exchange with other service providers. Once connected to Qwest’s
OC-192 multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network, with
over 1,700 access points and over 16,000 routes, you will
benefit from soft switch technology that achieves quality
comparable to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
How It Works
Traditionally, long distance (LD) providers convert IP voice
traffic to time division multiplex (TDM) and hand the traffic
to their LD provider for termination. In many instances, the
LD provider then converts that traffic back to IP to traverse
their LD network, converts the traffic once again to TDM and
terminates the call. With Qwest IP Voice Termination, you can
hand your IP voice traffic directly to Qwest. Qwest will transport
the IP voice call streams across its OC-192 MPLS network and
terminate the calls to the PSTN. No longer will you need to
purchase or manage the gateways necessary to make these conversions
– Qwest does it all! First, your IP voice traffic traverses
the Qwest IP transport to the Session Border Controller (SBC).
The SBC provides the necessary firewall protection to give your
traffic an additional level of protection on Qwest’s IP
voice infrastructure. Qwest’s media gateways terminate
your IP voice calls to the TDM circuit-switched network. Calls
are terminated either domestically or internationally to the
PSTN via TDM.
Features
NEW! OCN-based, Tier-type pricing structures offer
facilities-based providers significant value opportunity through
granular routing and billing:
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Qwest can offer facilities-based providers
an extremely competitive rate with OCN-level granularity
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OCN-based pricing allows facilities-based
providers to better manage their network routing costs |
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Bill reconciliation is easier with a finer
level of detail on both the invoice summary and monthly
call detail records (CDRs) |
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Comprehensive North American LATA coverage
Benefits
Savings
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Reduce your capital expenditures by using
a scalable single point of access with Qwest Dedicated
Internet Access, or by delivering traffic across the public
Internet instead of using costly TDM trunks and managing
multiple IP/TDM gateways |
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Quality and Security
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Qwest’s IP voice infrastructure provides
quality and service levels comparable to the PSTN |
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24x7x365 network monitoring and management
enables real-time troubleshooting while enhancing network
uptime |
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Advanced network firewall protection using
the SBC to provide IP address security and fraud protection |
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Reach
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Qwest can terminate traffic in over 250
countries through both landline and mobile terminations |
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Ease of Use
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Qwest can be your single provider for
both traditional long distance as well as IP Voice 1+
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Service Technology
Connection types: Connect
to Qwest’s network using a DS-1 to OC-48 dedicated data
circuit. Providers collocated in a Qwest point of presence (PoP)
location may connect via an Ethernet cross-connect. Service
providers may also connect via the public Internet*
Protocol: SIP
Codec: G.711, G.729A and G.729AB FAX: Standard G.711 and T.38 RFC2833:
Supported
How to Get Started
For more information on IP Voice 1+ Termination service, call a Qwest
Sales Representative.
*Qwest
does not provide service level agreements or quality of service
guarantees for traffic connected across the public Internet.
The information contained herein does
not constitute an offer by Qwest to provide services, equipment
or materials. Any such services and items shall be provided
only pursuant to a fully executed Qwest Wholesale Services
Agreement, or similar agreement, between Qwest and Customer.
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