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Broadvox Communications

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Website
  
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Number of employees
  
100

Founded
  
2001

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Type
  
subsidiary of Onvoy LLC

Key people
  
Fritz Hendricks, CEO, Surendra Saboo, COO

Products
  
Telecommunications, SIP Trunking, VoIP

Headquarters
  
Dallas, Texas, United States

Motto
  
Enabling Your Communications

Profiles

Broadvox is a VoIP service provider for business telecommunications. It offers voice and data network solutions for telecommunications, cable, and wireless carriers, as well as ISPs, ITSPs, Over-the-top (OTT) service providers, MVNOs, and various other business partners. Broadvox operates its own nationwide competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) facilities.

Contents

Broadvox was founded in 2001 as a wholesale VoIP carrier and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with additional offices in Atlanta, GA and Dallas, TX. In 2003, Broadvox began offering SIP origination and termination, which increased the companies quality of the voice transmission and expanded service offerings. In 2007, Broadvox added retail SIP Trunking to its product offerings for SMB, enterprise and carrier customers. In 2015, Broadvox was acquired by Onvoy.

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Products

Broadvox provides a variety of business VoIP products and services. The products include:

  • Call origination services – toll free
  • Call termination services– toll free and A-Z termination
  • SMS
  • Local Routing Number (LRN) service
  • CNAM (caller ID) submission and dipping
  • e911
  • Voice peering
  • Network

    Broadvox has a 10G carrier-grade network that carries over 20 billion annual minutes of voice and data. The company uses high density hardware and technology from Sonus Networks, Juniper Networks, and Cisco Systems. It also has core switching centers in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta, Denver, Toronto and Seattle.

    It is a Tier 1 network that has coverage in the continental United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada. In addition to a large network, Broadvox provides U.S. based customer service—including 24/7 Tier I and II carrier support. Broadvox was the first carrier to have a customized online user portal for provisioning and requesting phone numbers as well as reviewing account info.

    Acquisitions and takeover

    On January 6, 2014, Fusion acquired the Broadvox cloud services business, including all cloud-based voice, unified communications and SIP trunking products, for $32.1 million.

    On September 3, 2015, Onvoy (which already operates as a CLEC and acquired asests of Vitelity) acquired the remaining Broadvox businesses.

    References

    Broadvox Communications Wikipedia