Global Crossing this morning threw its hat into the VoIP peering ring, launching VoIP Community Peering, which brings its end-to-end IP connectivity to service providers.

The competitive carrier has been offering service to enterprise customers since June but is now moving into the carrier arena, promising to provide a lower, more predictable cost structure to service providers that are offering VoIP and converged IP services.

“Through Carrier VoIP Community Peering, Global Crossing is taking a step toward direct peering arrangements that will deliver high-performance, end-to-end IP connectivity,” said Anthony Christie, Global Crossing's chief marketing officer, in a prepared statement. This service also establishes a perfect starting point for customers to begin developing an industrywide VoIP peering solution.”

The service allows carrier customers to consolidate all incoming voice traffic from their customers and set all VoIP outbound calls to the Global Crossing network, where any calls that Global Crossing terminates on its VoIP Local Service will avoid per-minute charges and included instead in a flat-rate monthly recurring charge.

By having a single end-to-end connection, service providers get feature transparency as well as predictable costs that are lower than access costs. Peering services serve to link VoIP islands and avoid converting and reconverting IP-based calls to traverse the PSTN. An all-IP call flow also enables support of advanced SIP-based features.

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