AstraQom

Last updated
AstraQom International
TypePrivately held company
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded2008
Headquarters Ottawa (Canada)
San Jose (US)
Number of locations
24
Area served
Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Key people
Jonathan Sowah, CEO
ProductsHosted PBX
Virtual Numbers
Virtual Office
SIP Trunking
Number of employees
813
Subsidiaries AstraQom Algeria
AstraQom Andorra
AstraQom Angola
AstraQom Anguilla
AstraQom Argentina
AstraQom Armenia
AstraQom Australia
AstraQom Austria
AstraQom Bahrain
AstraQom Belarus
AstraQom Belgium
AstraQom Benin
AstraQom Botswana
AstraQom Brazil
AstraQom Bulgaria
AstraQom Canada
AstraQom Chile
AstraQom China
AstraQom Colombia
AstraQom Congo
AstraQom Costa Rica
AstraQom Cote D'ivoire
AstraQom Croatia
AstraQom Cyprus
AstraQom Czech Republic
AstraQom Denmark
AstraQom Dominican Republic
AstraQom Egypt
AstraQom El Salvador
AstraQom Estonia
AstraQom Fiji
AstraQom Finland
AstraQom France
AstraQom Georgia
AstraQom Germany
AstraQom Ghana
AstraQom Greece
AstraQom Guatemala
AstraQom Honduras
AstraQom Hong Kong
AstraQom Hungary
AstraQom Iceland
AstraQom India
AstraQom Indonesia
AstraQom Iran
AstraQom Iraq
AstraQom Ireland
AstraQom Israel
AstraQom Italy
AstraQom Jamaica
AstraQom Japan
AstraQom Kazakhstan
AstraQom Kenya
AstraQom Kuwait
AstraQom Latvia
AstraQom Liberia
AstraQom Lithuania
AstraQom Luxembourg
AstraQom Malaysia
AstraQom Malta
AstraQom Mexico
AstraQom Morocco
AstraQom Netherlands
AstraQom New Caledonia
AstraQom New Zealand
AstraQom Nicaragua
AstraQom Nigeria
AstraQom Norway
AstraQom Panama
AstraQom Papua New Guinea
AstraQom Peru
AstraQom Philippines
AstraQom Poland
AstraQom Portugal
AstraQom Puerto Rico
AstraQom Reunion Island
AstraQom Romania
AstraQom Russia
AstraQom Saudi Arabaia
AstraQom Seychelles Island
AstraQom Singapore
AstraQom Slovakia
AstraQom Slovenia
AstraQom South Africa
AstraQom South Korea
AstraQom Spain
AstraQom Sweden
AstraQom Switzerland
AstraQom Tajikistan
AstraQom Thailand
AstraQom Tonga
AstraQom Turkey
AstraQom Turks and Caicos Islands
AstraQom Uganda
AstraQom Ukraine
AstraQom United Kingdom
AstraQom USA
AstraQom USVI
AstraQom Venezuela
AstraQom Vietnam
SIP Trunking
Website AstraQom's Official Web Page

AstraQomInternational is a multi-national holding company that serves the telecommunications sector. The company is a provider of VoIP services and integrated communication solutions.[ buzzword ]

Contents

AstraQom currently provides VoIP services in more than 100 countries, covering 4 major regions: the Americas, Asia-Pacific, and the Europe, Middle East and Africa Region.

Background

AstraQom was founded in 2008 as AstraQom Corporation. In 2009, AstraQom Corp amalgamated with Aon Communications (Canada) Inc., a network development provider based in Ottawa. [1]

In August 2011, the company moved its headquarters to Ottawa, Ontario to consolidate its Canadian offices and establish a headquarters. [2] In early 2012, the first subsidiary was created as a Canadian VoIP business provider – AstraQom Canada Corporation – a Federal Canadian corporation with main offices in Ottawa, Ontario. That same year, AstraQom's Immersion in Promoting Industry Peers won the 2011 Kamailio (OpenSER) Award. [3]

In April 2012, AstraQom expanded their Hosted PBX client services with the addition of a Virtual Receptionist service. A virtual receptionist service provides a live answering option to small businesses that cannot afford, or do not need, a full-time receptionist. The service uses a toll-free number that is answered by agents who act as receptionists for various companies. [4]

AstraQom Canada, AstraQom International's subsidiary, expanded in December 2013 by acquiring Shi Lian Telecom, a business telephone service provider targeting Chinese-owned businesses in Canada and the United States. [5]

In May 2014, AstraQom moved its global headquarters to Silicon Valley and opened an office in San Jose, California. [6]

Early in 2015, AstraQom Canada moved its headquarters to the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), opening its second Canadian office and 6th international office. The company's Ottawa office now serves as its main network hub. It also started supporting immigrant entrepreneurs, small businesses and diversity initiatives. [7]

Global expansion of AstraQom has included the opening of offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand in 2015, followed by the Philippines [8] and Brazil, [9] in 2016, followed by a move of the company's headquarters to Campbell California. [10]

Services

AstraQom provides a variety of telecom-related services including: Hosted PBX, E-Fax (incoming faxes at no charge), Virtual telephone numbers (over 100 countries covered), Virtual office, A-Z Termination, Vanity Numbers, SIP Trunking.

Its Computer telephony integrations solutions[ buzzword ] include CRM, Hotel and Call Center software integrated with AstraQom's Hosted PBX.

Coverage

AstraQom offers Voice over IP and a range of integrated solutions[ buzzword ] to the following regions and countries:

AstraQom Americas
ArgentinaBrazilCanada
ChileEl SalvadorMexico
PanamaPeruPuerto Rico
USAVenezuelaColombia
Costa RicaJamaicaUSVI
Puerto Rico
AstraQom Asia-Pacific
AustraliaNew ZealandSingapore
PhilippinesJapanMalaysia
ChinaHong KongIndia
IndonesiaKazakhstanChina
TongaVietnamThailand
New CaledoniaSouth Korea
AstraQom Europe, Middle East and Africa
AustriaBelgiumBulgaria
CyprusDenmarkEstonia
FinlandFranceKenya
GermanyGreeceIreland
IsraelItalyLatvia
LithuaniaLuxembourgMalta
NorwayPortugalRomania
SlovakiaSloveniaSpain
SwedenSwitzerlandSouth Africa
UK

Projects and partnerships

In June 2012, AstraQom partnered with Bios Technologies, a provider of computer and network hardware and services serving the West Quebec and Ottawa areas. Bios became the provider of IP communications solutions[ buzzword ] to federal and provincial public functions, hospitals and businesses, as a re-seller for AstraQom products and services. [11] Following this, AstraQom expanded its Channel Partner program and currently has hundreds of carefully selected resellers around the world.

See also

Related Research Articles

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for voice calls, the delivery of voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mitel</span> Canadian telecommunications company

Mitel Networks Corporation is a Canadian telecommunications company. The company previously produced TDM PBX systems and applications, but after a change in ownership in 2001, now focuses almost entirely on Voice-over-IP (VoIP), unified communications, collaboration and contact center products. Mitel is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with offices, partners and resellers worldwide.

Vonage is an American cloud communications provider operating as a subsidiary of Ericsson. Headquartered in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, the organization was founded in 1998 as Min-X as a provider of residential telecommunications services based on voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). In 2001, the organization changed its name to Vonage.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Business telephone system</span> Multiline telephone system typically used in business environments

A business telephone system is a multiline telephone system typically used in business environments, encompassing systems ranging in technology from the key telephone system (KTS) to the private branch exchange (PBX).

Broadvoice is a privately owned company headquartered in Northridge, California. They provide Voice over IP (VOIP) cloud-based telecommunications services to small, medium and enterprise businesses in the United States. Broadvoice offers telephone services, unified communications as a service (UCaaS), SIP Trunking, telecommunications network and security, along with virtual call centers so business customers can use voice and video communications via a broadband Internet connection or cellular phone.

net2phone is a Cloud Communications provider offering cloud based telephony services to businesses worldwide. The company is a subsidiary of IDT Corporation.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Radvision</span> Israeli telecommunication company

Radvision was a provider of video conferencing solution and enabling products for IP communication developers based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Radvision was acquired by Avaya in June 2012. Spirent Communications acquired Radvision's Technology Business Unit from Avaya in July 2014, to become Spirent Developer Tools Business Unit.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Deltathree</span>

Deltathree Inc. is an American company engaged in the business of voice over IP telephony services. The company was one of the first in the world to offer a telephony service over the internet, reducing the cost of international calls by over 90 percent.

Iristel is a Canadian provider of telecommunication services that is a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC). The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Markham, Ontario.

A virtual number, also known as direct inward dialing (DID) or access numbers, is a telephone number without a directly associated telephone line. Usually, these numbers are programmed to forward incoming calls to one of the pre-set telephone numbers, chosen by the client: fixed, mobile or VoIP. A virtual number can work like a gateway between traditional calls (PSTN) and VoIP.

SunComm Technology is a Taiwan multinational computer technology and GSM Voice over IP gateway manufacturer. The main products in 2010 focused on GSM VoIP gateways & IP surveillance camera devices. Core members have been engaging in the communication & networks industry since 1977.

AireSpring is a super-carrier operating worldwide and nationwide managed services that provides cloud communications and managed connectivity services to businesses. Headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, the company provides managed services including unified communications, voice, data, security, failover, network management, and IP services to around 14,000 small, medium-sized, and multi-location enterprises in more than 80 major metropolitan markets across the United States.

Voiceserve Inc. is a Delaware, USA telecommunications and softswitch company headquartered in Middlesex, United Kingdom and incorporated December 9, 2005. The company offers Voice Over IP (VoIP), mobility, and IP-PBX software with management, administration, billing, mobility, hosted IP-PBX, and softphone functionality found among its services, VoipSwitch, Call-to-PBX, and Vippie.

Ingate Systems AB is a Swedish company that sells data network security and telecommunication equipment. The company primarily provides SIP Trunking of IP PBX:s on the US market. It is associated with sister company Intertex Data AB.

Dialexia Communications, Inc. is a privately held Canadian corporation headquartered in Montréal, Quebec, that develops, manufactures, and sells VoIP-based Telecommunication products and services.

Dial-Office IP-PBX is a SIP-based IP-PBX business phone system, first released in 2003 by Canadian telecommunications software provider Dialexia. The software allows users to connect multiple phones, share lines among several phones and implement business PBX telephone phone features such as voicemail, caller ID, call forwarding & call recording into their system. Dial-Office is also suitable for multi-office connections, connecting branches which are geographically distant from each other. Dialexia Communications, Inc. released the latest version of Dial-Office IP-PBX (4.1) in 2013. On June 3, 2014, the company's development team announced in a client newsletter that support for Dial-Office versions 3.9 and earlier would cease effective September 1, 2014.

HERO Hosted PBX is a SIP-based hosted IP-PBX business phone system, first released in 2008 by Canadian telecommunications software provider Dialexia. The HERO software allows users to connect multiple phones, share lines among several phones and implement business PBX telephone phone features such as voicemail, caller ID, call forwarding & call recording into their virtual PBX. The software is also suitable for multi-office connections, connecting branches which are geographically distant from each other. Dialexia Communications, Inc. released the latest version of HERO Hosted PBX (4.3) in 2013.

Ribbon Communications Inc. is a public company that makes software, IP and optical networking solutions for service providers, enterprises and critical infrastructure sectors. The company was formed in 2017, following the merger of Genband and Sonus Networks and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

References

  1. "Atlanta Strategic Marketing Consultancy | eVolve Brand Marketing".
  2. http://www.voip-catalog.com/news_item2773.html Archived August 12, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "AstraQom's Immersion in Promoting Industry Peers Wins Kamailio 2011 Award".
  4. "AstraQom Adds to its Cloud-based Communications Service".
  5. "Shi Lian Telecom's Acquisition". CB Insights. Retrieved 2020-01-20.
  6. http://www.i-newswire.com/astraqom-international-moves-into/267720
  7. "Canadian VoIP Provider AstraQom Featured at In-Tac Expo" . Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  8. "AstraQom International Launches AstraQom Philippines & 20 Top-Class Scholarships". finance.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2016-12-20.
  9. "AstraQom Expansion Bolsters Brazilian Business VoIP".
  10. "AstraQom International Confirms Move to Larger Global Headquarters within Silicon Valley".
  11. "Bios Technologies, Inc. Partners with AstraQom for Growing SMB IP Communications and Technology Demand". Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2014-08-14.