Internet Telephony

Local carriers and resellers purchase international routes from international exchange carriers. They mix and match these carriers to find the best prices to each given location at each time of the day. In order to have this option, they must be located near an international hub like London, Los Angeles or New York. If an international hub is not nearby, the carrier must lease dedicated circuits from their local switches to those hubs. This is called backhaul and is an added expense for the local carriers. To solve this dilemma, ITXC developed the SNARC program.

ITXC demands the utmost in platform reliability in order to offer their carrier and reseller customers around-the-clock access to the ITXC network. They selected Crystal Group's rugged, reliable and proven CS1000 chassis to power ITXC.net and to supply their customers with SNARCs.

"We chose Crystal because they are a reliable outsource partner with a reliable product," added Bozzo. "The Crystal team has worked with ITXC as its global network has grown by warehousing, configuring, testing and shipping SNARCs to our customers around the world. They have made it easy for us to grow to have the largest global IP Internet telephony footprint."

ITXC is one of the world's leading carriers based on minutes of international voice traffic carried. It operates one of the world's largest voice networks, ITXC.net®. The company sells long distance transport to retail telephone companies and every day carries millions of international long distance minutes worldwide.

ITXC uses the public Internet to transport the calls, thereby affording its customers better profit margins and providing the company with a revolutionary cost structure. It has no net debt and ended 2002 with over $95 million of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. Government owned phone companies in emerging countries and new carriers gain immediate access to international and domestic long distance with very little capital expenditure when they work with ITXC.

ITXC's patented intelligent routing technology provides carrier quality voice services on the Internet to customers worldwide. ITXC.net has more points of presence in more countries than any other network of its kind. It is the most cost-effective network in the world for transporting voice calls.