BroadVoice
Encyclopedia
BroadVoice is a Voice over IP
(VoIP) telephone service provider that enables customers to conduct voice and video communications via a broadband Internet connection. Customers typically make and receive phone calls using an ordinary telephone
connected to an analog telephony adapter
or a digital SIP
-enabled wired (Ethernet
) or WiFi
phone. Devices are either provided by BroadVoice, or customers may use their own equipment on discounted rate plans. Calls can be made to any telephone number
in the US or internationally.
BroadVoice, a subsidiary of Convergent Networks, 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.
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...
(VoIP) telephone service provider that enables customers to conduct voice and video communications via a broadband Internet connection. Customers typically make and receive phone calls using an ordinary telephone
Telephone
The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...
connected to an analog telephony adapter
Analog telephony adapter
An analog telephony adapter, or analog telephone adapter, is a device used to connect one or more standard analog telephones to a digital telephone system or a non-standard telephone system....
or a digital SIP
Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol . The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party or multiparty sessions...
-enabled wired (Ethernet
Ethernet
Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
) or WiFi
WIFI
WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a brokered format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA, the station is currently operated by Florence Broadcasting Partners, LLC.This station was previously owned by Real Life Broadcasting...
phone. Devices are either provided by BroadVoice, or customers may use their own equipment on discounted rate plans. Calls can be made to any telephone number
Telephone number
A telephone number or phone number is a sequence of digits used to call from one telephone line to another in a public switched telephone network. When telephone numbers were invented, they were short — as few as one, two or three digits — and were given orally to a switchboard operator...
in the US or internationally.
BroadVoice, a subsidiary of Convergent Networks, was founded in December 2003 and is based in the Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica, Massachusetts
Billerica is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 40,243 at the 2010 census. It is the only town named Billerica in the United States and borrows its name from the town of Billericay in Essex, England.- History :...
area. Convergent has since been bought by Eastern Photonics, which itself is a subsidiary of Global NAPs, a CLEC.