CommPartners, which describes itself as a "next-generation VoIP Facilitator," announced its plans for a proprietary network for the transport of VoIP calls across the U.S. Currently, CommPartners' offers an "NFL city footprint" to its hosted VoIP customers. The company is deploying a "Super POP" network architecture with four strategically placed nodes containing routers, softswitching equipment, and session border controllers. The Company has chosen technology vendors Telica and BroadSoft to provide Class 4/5 switching and routing as well as advanced VoIP applications such as IP Centrex, hosted PBX and Conferencing. The Company also operates a Syndeo Syion softswitch that is PacketCable-compliant for the cable market. Acme Packet has been chosen to provide the session border control functionality in the network.
CommPartners will utilize Internap to carry its VoIP traffic between broadband end-users and CommPartners' Super POPs, where the determination is made as to whether to convert into traditional voice protocol or remain in VoIP format for delivery to the called party.
Because of Internap's multi-homed architecture, CommPartners said it has been able to engineer its network to avoid traversing public Internet peering points, which are inherent "log jams," placing traffic to the CommPartners network only one hop away from every major Internet backbone carrier. This proximity will eliminate the majority of the latency and jitter associated with calls moving across the public Internet.
By mid-2005, CommPartners will cover substantially all tier-1 through tier-4 population centers in the country, including Alaska and Hawaii, enabling access to over 8,500 local calling rate centers across the country. The company is filing for CLEC status in all fifty states. http://www.commpartners.us
- CommPartners is based in Las Vegas. The company is headed by David Clark, who previously served as an early member of the MGC Communications executive team (the predecessor to Mpower Communications).
