founder rodrigue ullens co founder fran ois strumann co founder headquarters brussels belgium key people itay rosenfeld ceo stef konings cfo gaetan brichet coo dries plasman vp of product management dirk hermans vp research and development anne valerie heuschen vp corporate affairs products voxdid vox800 voxfax voxsms and voxout number of employees 90 website www.voxbone.com voxbone is a cloud communications iaas company based in brussels belgium london united kingdom los angeles and san francisco california . voxbone enables telephony applications such as conferencing and contact centers to receive phone calls text messages and faxes in 55 countries . 1 the company s services are accessed through a web portal or rest api . 2 voxbone services are delivered over a private ip network that interconnects with local phone networks in the countries where it operates . 3 voxbone customers include deutsche telekom telefonica ntt level 3 orange and skype . 4 5 6 in 2011 the company launched a global capacity sharing model to tackle the complex tasks and costs associated with planning and managing global voice traffic . customers are charged according to their peak simultaneous sessions globally vs. total minute usage per country or geographical origin of calls in traditional models . 7 contents 1 history 2 services 3 applications 4 international networks 5 external links 6 references history edit voxbone was founded in brussels belgium in 2005 by rodrigue ullens and francois struman as voxbone sa nv . 8 as a consultant for telecom operators ullens noticed the growing demand for phone numbers from other countries and decided to create the business . 9 the founders mission was to offer simplified access to telephony resources through the cloud . 10 in august 2015 vitruvian partners llp vitruvian a leading independent european private equity firm announced that it has acquired a majority stake in voxbone sa . 11 services edit voxbone provides local geographical mobile and toll free phone numbers commonly known as direct inward dial numbers which telecommunication providers or enterprises use to extend the reach of their voice networks to international locations without requiring a local office network or license for each country . 12 voxbone also supports local number portability and offers the ability to port existing local telephone numbers from other local service providers to its network . 13 14 voxdid inbound sip trunking with local geographic mobile and non geographic telephone numbers . these are numbers from the country s regular telephone numbering plan . this service is available from 55 countries . 15 vox800 inbound sip trunking with local toll free numbers . this service is comparable to the international toll free service itfs . it does not charge per minute for the international transport of calls . 16 17 voxfax and voxsms voxbone s products for supporting inbound sms and faxes and fax to email on its sip trunks . 18 voxout voxbone does not offer voice call termination services with the exception of one destination local emergency numbers e.g. 112 in europe or 911 in north america . offering an end user the ability to dial 112 or 911 is a regulatory obligation . 19 as voice termination providers offer only the ability to dial regular geographical and mobile numbers voxbone introduced this service following requests of their customers . 20 webrtc in may 2014 voxbone announced the start of a beta phase of a webrtc service . voxbone routes webrtc calls over its global mpls data network to make webrtc calls less vulnerable to quality of service issues resulting from the congestion on the public internet . 21 22 applications edit voxbone did numbers and sip trunks can play a role in different types of applications cloud pbx and sip trunking companies get local telephone numbers from voxbone to make their ip based voice and unified communications uc services reachable from local pstn networks in many countries . examples of such companies include 8x8 inc. thinkingphones . 23 24 conferencing providers use voxbone s local numbers to offer their end users the ability to dial into a conferencing bridge from any country . examples of such companies include arkadin zoom speek loopup . 25 26 27 28 international calling companies which offer low cost international calling rates use voxbone s services to provide local dial in numbers to their customers . they also reserve call capacity on voxbone s voip backbone . such companies include skype and idt . 29 30 telecom api companies develop communication applications that developers can integrate into their own applications for example a website for appointment booking can integrate sms reminders and confirmations via these telecom api providers . examples of such companies include deutsche telekom s developer garden aculab . 31 contact centers multinational enterprise contact centers manage their own contact centers using voxbone s services to provide local numbers to their customers around the world . cloud contact centers integrate voxbone s local phone numbers into their systems to offer outsourcing options . examples of such companies include incontact and liveops . 32 international networks edit several decades ago the international telecommunication union itu created two new ranges in the global telephone numbering plan for international networks . international networks are telecommunication services that are not linked in any way to a geographical area ; hence 882 and 883 are country codes are not linked to any country . 882 numbers are to be used in conjunction with private networks e.g. global private atm networks while 883 numbers are intended for use with public telecommunications networks such as the internet . 33 34 35 voxbone received the 883 5510 number range in the 883 code from the itu . with this number range the company started an open source like initiative where service providers can obtain a sub range of these numbers and use them for communication between each other without the pstn . the initiative is called inum . the service operates on a sip server accessible from the internet hosted by voxbone and supports voice video and text messaging between networks . by the end of 2013 around 100 voip service providers had made use of inum numbers . google and skype route calls to inum numbers from their network as do several wholesale voice termination providers such as ibasis and bics . 36 in 2010 the itu created a new country code for the united nations . the number range 888 is intended to be used by the mobile disaster relief forces of the un ocha . voxbone operates these numbers on behalf of the united nations . 37 external links edit voxbone united nations ocha country code 888 international telecommunication union itu voxbone sa country code 883 5100 international telecommunication union itu references edit voxbone tweaks its network for webrtc . light reading . no jitter going global with sip and uc 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enhance its cloud meeting service . cloud call center . going global with sip and uc . no jitter . sprint alltel usc fined for missed e911 deadline . fiercewireless . emergency services in the voip world . emergency communications . voxbone promises webrtc plus qos . no jitter . webrtc infrastructure is tricky . no jitter . voxbone promises webrtc plus qos thinkingphones extends reach with voxbone s sip trunks . telecompaper . voxbone to provide global did numbers to aculab cloud based platform zoom to use voxbone toll free phone numbers to enhance its cloud meeting service . cloud call centre resource . speek selects voxbone loopup signs on for voxbone s newest conferencing service . tmcnet . voxbone promises webrtc plus qos voxbone to provide global did numbers to aculab cloud based platform voxbone to provide global did numbers to aculab cloud based platform voxbone promises webrtc plus qos international numbering resources database criteria and procedures for the reservation 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