IntelePeer
Encyclopedia
IntelePeer, Inc. is a privately held company based in San Mateo
, California
who provides on-demand cloud-based communications services to service providers and enterprises.
The company’s competitors include Ribbit
and Jajah
.
The company is backed by venture capital
firms VantagePoint Venture Partners
, Kennet Partners
, NorthCap Partners and EDF Ventures.
.
In July 2006, the company completed a series B funding round for $12 million led by Kennet Partners
.
In September 2006, the company moved its global headquarters to Foster City, California
.
In October 2006, the company introduced its SuperRegistry, 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.
VoEX changed its name to IntelePeer, Inc. in September 2007.
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.
In October 2009, IntelePeer joined the Microsoft
Partner Program to integrate its platform with Windows Live
applications.
In November 2008, IntelePeer, Inc. completed a series C round of financing for $18 million. The financing was led by new investor VantagePoint Venture Partners
of San Bruno, California
, with participation by existing investors.
In May 2011, IntelePeer filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering.
) model of software deployment
. 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.
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. The Media Peering Service uses the company’s hosted 10Gbps IP backbone network to provide direct digital connections between the more than 40 service provider
peering
partners. 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. IntelePeer delivers VoIP and SIP trunking
services that connect unified communications UC systems such as Microsoft Lync.
IntelePeer SuperRegistry Directory
IntelePeer offers a SuperRegistry directory, with more than 400 million telephone numbers and end point identifying addresses, that provides subscriber management and ENUM telephone number mapping capabilities to exchange IntelePeer-accessible numbers and route calls between IntelePeer global peering partners, including service providers and VoIP communities in a secure manner.
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. 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. The Telco 2.0 blog refers to this practice as “communications-enabled business processes, or CEBP.” 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.
San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. It covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula just south of San Francisco, and north of Santa Clara County. San Francisco International Airport is located at the northern end of the county, and...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
who provides on-demand cloud-based communications services to service providers and enterprises.
The company’s competitors include Ribbit
Ribbit (telecommunications company)
Ribbit is a telecommunications company based in Mountain View, California. It was acquired by BT Group on 2008-07-29 for $105 million.On August 10, 2011, Ribbit announced it was closing most of its external-facing operations and developer program within a couple of months.The company’s goal is to...
and Jajah
Jajah
Jajah is a VoIP provider, founded by Austrians Roman Scharf and Daniel Mattes in 2005. The Jajah headquarters are located in Mountain View, CA, USA, and Luxembourg. Jajah maintains a development centre in Israel...
.
The company is backed by venture capital
Venture capital
Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...
firms VantagePoint Venture Partners
VantagePoint Venture Partners
VantagePoint Capital Partners is a firm with investments in the cleantech, information technology and healthcare sectors.Founded in 1996, by Alan E. Salzman and Jim Marver, the firm has raised over $4 billion with more than $1 billion dedicated specifically to CleanTech...
, Kennet Partners
Kennet Partners
Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to information technology, Internet and business services companies in Europe and the US....
, NorthCap Partners and EDF Ventures.
Corporate History
IntelePeer, Inc. was founded as VoEX, Inc. in 2003 to provide core network VoIP services to large communications services providers, universities, large enterprises and VoIP applications developers. The company was originally based in Grand Rapids, MichiganMichigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
.
In July 2006, the company completed a series B funding round for $12 million led by Kennet Partners
Kennet Partners
Kennet Partners is a private equity investment firm that provides growth capital to information technology, Internet and business services companies in Europe and the US....
.
In September 2006, the company moved its global headquarters to Foster City, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
In October 2006, the company introduced its SuperRegistry, which combines interconnection call signaling and media translation, and ENUM
Enum
ENUM or enum may refer to:* E.164 NUmber Mapping, a suite of protocols to unify the telephone system with the Internet* An enumerated type, a data type consisting of a set of named values...
Telephone number mapping registry capabilities to allow peering
Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...
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.
VoEX changed its name to IntelePeer, Inc. in September 2007.
In September 2008, IntelePeer launched its AppWorx communications-enabling application development environment offering an application programming interface
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...
(API) based on Web standards like PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
and REST
Rest
Rest may refer to:* Leisure* Human relaxation* SleepRest may also refer to:* Rest , a pause in a piece of music* Rest , the relation between two observers* Rest , a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa...
to help service providers and application developers
Software developer
A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...
to voice-enable their applications.
In October 2009, IntelePeer joined the Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
Partner Program to integrate its platform with Windows Live
Windows Live
Windows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft, part of their software plus services platform. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require...
applications.
In November 2008, IntelePeer, Inc. completed a series C round of financing for $18 million. The financing was led by new investor VantagePoint Venture Partners
VantagePoint Venture Partners
VantagePoint Capital Partners is a firm with investments in the cleantech, information technology and healthcare sectors.Founded in 1996, by Alan E. Salzman and Jim Marver, the firm has raised over $4 billion with more than $1 billion dedicated specifically to CleanTech...
of San Bruno, California
San Bruno, California
San Bruno is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States. The population was 41,114 at the 2010 census.The city is adjacent to San Francisco International Airport and Golden Gate National Cemetery.-Geography:San Bruno is located at...
, with participation by existing investors.
In May 2011, IntelePeer filed with the SEC to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering.
Technology
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 (SaaSSaas
SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...
) model of software deployment
Software deployment
Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use.The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. These activities can occur at the producer site or at the consumer site or both...
. The CaaS model brings software development, cloud computing
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
, and communications together, providing cloud technologies that let users communicate via voice, text
Written language
A written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system. Written language is an invention in that it must be taught to children, who will instinctively learn or create spoken or gestural languages....
, and rich media on whatever device they prefer to use.
Products & Services
IntelePeer Media Peering Grid ServiceIntelePeer 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. The Media Peering Service uses the company’s hosted 10Gbps IP backbone network to provide direct digital connections between the more than 40 service provider
Service provider
A service provider is an entity that provides services to other entities. Usually, this refers to a business that provides subscription or web service to other businesses or individuals. Examples of these services include Internet access, Mobile phone operators, and web application hosting...
peering
Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...
partners. These peering partners provide the ability to complete calls on telephones connected to the public switched telephone network
Public switched telephone network
The public switched telephone network is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks. It consists of telephone lines, fiber optic cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks, communications satellites, and undersea telephone cables, all inter-connected by...
(PSTN) for reduced cost compared to traditional inter-carrier connections. IntelePeer delivers VoIP and SIP trunking
SIP Trunking
SIP trunking is a Voice over Internet Protocol service based on the Session Initiation Protocol by which Internet telephony service providers deliver telephone services and unified communication to customers equipped with private branch exchange facilities.-Domains:The architecture of SIP...
services that connect unified communications UC systems such as Microsoft Lync.
IntelePeer SuperRegistry Directory
IntelePeer offers a SuperRegistry directory, with more than 400 million telephone numbers and end point identifying addresses, that provides subscriber management and ENUM telephone number mapping capabilities to exchange IntelePeer-accessible numbers and route calls between IntelePeer global peering partners, including service providers and VoIP communities in a secure manner.
IntelePeer AppWorx Development Environment
The IntelePeer AppWorx development environment provides APIs based on Web standards like PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
and REST
Rest
Rest may refer to:* Leisure* Human relaxation* SleepRest may also refer to:* Rest , a pause in a piece of music* Rest , the relation between two observers* Rest , a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa...
to help service providers and application developers to communications-enable their applications. 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. The Telco 2.0 blog refers to this practice as “communications-enabled business processes, or CEBP.” 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
Time to market
In commerce, time to market is the length of time it takes from a product being conceived until its being available for sale. TTM is important in industries where products are outmoded quickly...
required to communications-enable their applications and processes.
Further reading
- IntelePeer web site
- IntelePeer SIP Trunking web site
- CaaS Global Online Community
- Xchange Magazine
- Telephony Online
- Larry Hettick and Steve Taylor, NetworkWorld. “Top 10 predictions for VoIP and convergence in 2009.” December 17, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
- Telco 2.0 Blog
- John Arnold’s 2.0 Blog
- Gary Kim’s IP Carrier Blog