IP Exchange wins ITSPA innovation award

ITSPA, the UK's industry body for internet telephony service providers, has voted BT Wholesale’s IP Exchange “the most innovative VoIP product of the year”.

The award was made at a ceremony at the House of Lords in December. It followed a month of rigorous independent testing by ITSPA of all the products entered for its 2009 competition to check robustness and stability.

Lee Hollis, BT Wholesale’s head of Product Management, said: “It’s great to receive this public recognition of a product we’re really proud of. It’s a costly and complex task to deliver IP interoperability. IP Exchange takes the pain away for VoIP service providers by letting them ‘pay as you grow’. It saves them from having to make capital investments ahead of knowing how fast they will grow. And it spares them the hassle of negotiating and managing agreements with literally hundreds of network providers.”

The IP Exchange platform is the ideal solution for providers who have their own soft switch but who need a high-quality, carrier-grade VoIP or TDM gateway to deliver calls to fixed line, mobile and next generation network numbers as ‘native VoIP’.