ITXC Corp Chooses Cisco Systems

ITXC Corp announced today that it has chosen the Cisco AS5000 Universal Gateway and PGW 2200 Softswitch Voice Over IP (VoIP) offerings as the basis for the next generation of ITXC's worldwide ITXC.net ® inter-carrier voice network currently spanning over 175 countries. ITXC is one of the world's largest carriers in terms of minutes of international voice traffic carried and is, according to TeleGeography 2003, the market share leader in international VoIP. VoIP use in international calling is growing rapidly; TeleGeography estimates that it now accounts for 10% of international phone-to-phone calling, up from just 6% a year ago. 

"More and more often carriers use ITXC for all or part of their traffic," said ITXC Chairman and CEO Tom Evslin. "Carriers have found that simplifying their networks by relying on ITXC has resulted in lower cost of ownership and higher reliability than managing a multitude of vendors in a complex routing table. Similarly, ITXC has found that relying on Cisco for most of its equipment needs results in lower costs and higher reliability as well as multi-vendor interoperability, which is important to ITXC and its customers. Our purchasing and support relationship with Cisco helps us deliver the very high reliability our carrier customers require when our network is the only route for their traffic."

"We are pleased that ITXC has chosen Cisco as their vendor for the next generation of their network and proud to have helped ITXC achieve its current success," said Charlie Giancarlo, senior vice president of Cisco Systems, Inc. "ITXC's focus on quality and scale, combined with Cisco VoIP technology, provide carrier customers a highly reliable network for their voice traffic." 

ITXC is installing Cisco's Voice Infrastructure and Applications Solution (Cisco VIA) as it builds the next generation of ITXC.net. The robustness of the VIA solution and the SS7 capability offered by Cisco means that ITXC is able to dispense entirely with traditional telephony switches in its network yet maintain signaling compatibility with the switches used by its customers around the world