| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | San Mateo, CA |
| Key people |
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| Website | http://www.intelepeer.com |
IntelePeer, Inc. is a privately held company based in San Mateo, California[2] who provides on-demand cloud-based communications services to service providers and enterprises.[3][4]
The company’s competitors include Ribbit[5] and Jajah.[6]
The company is backed by venture capital firms VantagePoint Venture Partners, Kennet Partners, NorthCap Partners and EDF Ventures.[5]
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IntelePeer, Inc. was founded as VoEX, Inc. in 2003[5] to provide core network VoIP services to large communications services providers, universities, large enterprises and VoIP applications developers.[7] The company was originally based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.[7]
In July 2006, the company completed a series B funding round for $12 million led by Kennet Partners.[8]
In September 2006, the company moved its global headquarters to Foster City, California.[9]
In October 2006, the company introduced its SuperRegistry,[10] which combines interconnection call signaling and media translation, and ENUM Telephone number mapping registry capabilities to allow peering partners who participated in the SuperRegistry to complete calls with each other through direct digital connections to reduce long distance and international call expenses for customers.[10]
VoEX changed its name to IntelePeer, Inc. in September 2007.[2]
In September 2008, IntelePeer launched its AppWorx communications-enabling application development environment offering an application programming interface (API) based on Web standards like PHP and REST to help service providers and application developers to voice-enable their applications.[11]
In October 2009, IntelePeer joined the Microsoft Partner Program[12] to integrate its platform with Windows Live applications.[13]
In November 2008, IntelePeer, Inc. completed a series C round of financing for $18 million.[5][6] The financing was led by new investor VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California, with participation by existing investors.[5]
In May 2011, IntelePeer filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering.[14]
IntelePeer offers voice and multimedia services through what the company calls the “Communications as a Service” (CaaS) on-demand platform for adding communications capabilities to applications and services without upfront capital costs that works in a manner similar to the Software as a Service (SaaS) model of software deployment.[15][16] The CaaS model brings software development, cloud computing, and communications together, providing cloud technologies that let users communicate via voice, text, and rich media on whatever device they prefer to use.[15][16]
IntelePeer Media Peering Grid Service IntelePeer offers a Media Peering Grid service which provides any-to-any connection capabilities and allows service providers and enterprises to cost-effectively interconnect and transport communications traffic, at a rate of more than 20 billion minutes annually based on Q1 2011 traffic.[17] The Media Peering Service uses the company’s hosted 10Gbit/s IP backbone network to provide direct digital connections between the more than 40 service provider peering partners.[11][13][18] These peering partners provide the ability to complete calls on telephones connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) for reduced cost compared to traditional inter-carrier connections.[11][13] IntelePeer delivers VoIP and SIP trunking services that connect unified communications UC systems such as Microsoft Lync.[19][20]
IntelePeer SuperRegistry Directory IntelePeer offers a SuperRegistry directory, with more than 400 million telephone numbers and end point identifying addresses,[17] that provides subscriber management and ENUM telephone number mapping capabilities[11] to exchange IntelePeer-accessible numbers and route calls between IntelePeer global peering partners, including service providers and VoIP communities in a secure manner.[11][13]
IntelePeer AppWorx Development Environment The IntelePeer AppWorx development environment provides APIs based on Web standards like PHP and REST to help service providers and application developers to communications-enable their applications.[11][13] The APIs serve as an interface between IntelePeer’s infrastructure and voice peering network, allowing developers to add voice features without having to tap into low level network protocols and application program interfaces.[11][13] The Telco 2.0 blog refers to this practice as “communications-enabled business processes, or CEBP.”[21][22] By providing familiar, standards-based APIs for developers, AppWorx environment and toolsets allow service providers and enterprises to reduce the development time and related time to market required to communications-enable their applications and processes.[11][13][23]