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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:

• Qwest can offer facilities-based providers an extremely competitive rate with OCN-level granularity
• OCN-based pricing allows facilities-based providers to better manage their network routing costs
• Bill reconciliation is easier with a finer level of detail on both the invoice summary and monthly call detail records (CDRs)

Comprehensive North American LATA coverage

Benefits

Savings

• 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

Quality and Security

• Qwest’s IP voice infrastructure provides quality and service levels comparable to the PSTN
• 24x7x365 network monitoring and management enables real-time troubleshooting while enhancing network uptime
• Advanced network firewall protection using the SBC to provide IP address security and fraud protection

Reach

• Qwest can terminate traffic in over 250 countries through both landline and mobile terminations

Ease of Use

• Qwest can be your single provider for both traditional long distance as well as IP Voice 1+ Termination

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.