The Straitshot Network - Built for Voice over IP
Straitshot's Communications' Intelligent Network Core is specifically built to meet the demanding requirements of VoIP. Our unique architecture allows you to take advantage of all of the applications and cost savings available today and ensures that you will have the ability to continue to deploy new applications in the future.Current solutions - predominantly Frame Relay and Internet VPNs are typically inadequate and unacceptable for VoIP. Straitshot's network ends the compromise between expensive legacy networks and unreliable Internet VPNs. When you deploy a Straitshot solution, it is VoIP ready. Whether you are running voice, video, data, or any combination, Straitshot custom-tailors each solution to meet your application needs.
The hard facts are, VPNs do not support quality of service (QoS) or class of service (CoS). Straitshot's private network allows companies to avoid the complexity and risks of the public Internet that are inherent in VPN solutions. There is no need for tunneling or encryption. The Straitshot network provides a much more elegant, secure solution that maintains performance within a private, converged network environment.
Even traditional networks fail to perform for VoIP applications. Most bandwidth guarantees range from 0% to 50%. On a Frame Relay network, you share capacity with other customers. You are paying for bandwidth that you may never get to use. Moreover, Frame Relay as a network protocol, was not designed for real time applications. This explains why users have difficulty running quality voice over Frame Relay. Legacy architectures lack the intelligence to read service headers and therefore cannot prioritize traffic based upon the application type. Their only way to combat increased latency or jitter is to add more bandwidth, costing you more money.
Quality of Service the Right Way: Maintaining Session Priority
Straitshot's network delivers QoS and CoS the right way, both within the network core and across the customer's last-mile connections. We don't oversubscribe or share bandwidth between customers. Each customer is given exclusive network capacity. Straitshot's patent-pending network architecture allows us to deliver QoS and CoS at both layer 2 and layer 3 levels.
Straitshot's network core is able to inspect all traffic on each site's links, both inbound and outbound. Each packet's service header is read to determine its type and the appropriate priority is then applied to ensure that class of service is enforced across the network. Therefore, voice calls are maintained at the highest throughput while bandwidth for lower priority data sessions is dynamically scaled back.
Guaranteed True Redundancy
Not only can Straitshot delver quality and class of service for VoIP, but with our exclusive redundancy option, our converged voice and data service can guarantee the reliability you expect from a traditional voice network. By combining multiple carrier connections and multiple last-mile access technologies at each customer site, we deliver the gold standard in voice network availability, 99.999%.
Unlike most traditional back-up network architectures, our redundancy option provides you with full use of available bandwidth and dynamic load-balancing on your back up circuit. You have total and dedicated use of both circuits at all times. If one carrier goes down, there is an automatic failover to the second carrier with no loss of service quality. No other network provider can do this for you.
Straitshot Delivers Where Others Fail
Voice communications are critical to the successful operation of your enterprise. No one is really sure how long it will take for the majority of network providers to get it right. One thing you're sure of is that your communications network can't wait any longer. Straitshot's network meets and exceeds the exacting demands of your voice applications now and into the future. The intelligent network core, end-to-end QoS and CoS enforcement and true redundancy all come together to create a converged IP telephony network environment like no other service available today.