BroadVoice
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| BroadVoice Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | December 2003 in Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Headquarters | Billerica, Massachusetts |
| Industry | Communications services |
| Products | Voice over IP |
| Website | www.broadvoice.com |
BroadVoice is a Voice over IP (VoIP) network that allows users to conduct voice communications via a broadband Internet connection. Customers can use their cable modem, DSL service, or other high-speed Internet link to make and receive phone calls using an ordinary telephone. Calls can be made to any telephone number. BroadVoice supplies analog telephone adapters, or customers may also bring their own Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) devices to use with the service. Examples of SIP devices include the Asterisk PBX, Cisco IP phones, and softphones such as CounterPath's eyeBeam and Xten.
An article in Wired Magazine's 2005 Test issue named BroadVoice as the Editors' Choice for best "full phone service" Voice over IP provider. BroadVoice has twice been named to the Pulver 100, a listing of top VoIP Industry companies.[1]
BroadVoice, a subsidiary of Convergent Networks[2] was founded in December, 2003 and is based in the Billerica, Massachusetts area. Convergent has since been bought by Eastern Photonics, which itself is a subsidiary of Global NAPs, a CLEC.[3]
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[edit] References
- Wired Test, October 25, 2005
- PC World, "Slash Your Phone Bills with BroadVoice," April 8, 2005 [3]
- eWeek, "BroadVoice Plan Offers Good Starting Point for VoIP," October 8, 2004 [4]
[edit] Footnoted references
- ^ [1] and [2]
- ^ Convergent Networks Investor Overview. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
- ^ Yahoo Finance: Industry Center profile of Covergent Networks, Inc. Retrieved 2006-11-24.
