BOSTON -- Broadwing Communications, LLC today announced availability of Voice over IP (VoIP) services over Broadwing’s Converged Network, an access network purpose-built to deliver on the concept of truly converged, plug-and-play communications. The availability of VoIP services over Broadwing’s Converged Network further expands the carrier’s telecom utility offering launched in June 2005 to meet the needs of VoIP carriers and multi-site enterprises with complex communications requirements.

Specific VoIP services newly available over the Broadwing Converged Network include PSTNConnect SIP and Enterprise SIP. Both services leverage the global Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) standard for enterprise and carrier network VoIP call control. In addition, Broadwing’s VoIP Integrated Access service, launched in June, now is delivered via the Broadwing Converged Network.

PSTNConnect SIP enables VoIP providers to offer enhanced local voice services to their end users in Broadwing’s 23 local markets via a single IP connection to Broadwing’s Converged Network. This Converged Network telecom utility enables VoIP carriers to focus on end-user services and to manage voice capacity with Broadwing on a nationwide basis.

Broadwing Enterprise SIP enables multi-location enterprises to create VoIP wide area networks (WANs) over their existing Converged Network data WANs, providing a single SIP interconnection between a customer's internal VoIP network and the PSTN (Public Service Telephone Network). This Converged Network telecom utility interfaces directly with existing IP PBX equipment to deliver full featured local and long distance calling, without the need for expensive PSTN gateways at enterprise locations.

Industry research firm In-Stat currently projects that IP PBXs will comprise 91% of PBX sales in 2009, growing from 9.5 million lines this year to 28.1 million. Enterprise SIP lowers the cost and complexity of this transformation for the enterprise by replacing multiple local providers and voice access lines with a single local/national VoIP platform.

“Broadwing customers now can use a single WAN connection to tap into carrier class, fully featured telephony services as a telecom utility, without the need for expensive gateways,” said Scott Widham, president of sales and marketing for Broadwing. “Just as electrical power ubiquitously enables utility of devices from toasters to electric cars, true telecom utility will enable the user to plug any application into an outlet and enable all kinds of communications.”

Broadwing Corp.