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IntelePeer is a privately held company based in San Mateo, California,〔BusinessWeek. (Private Company Listing ). November 11, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2009.〕 which provides on-demand cloud-based IP communications and SIP trunking services for unified communications systems, contact centers, and enterprises.〔Carol Wilson, Telephony Online. “(Can You Still Market Voice to SMBs? )” February 29, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕〔Xchange Magazine. “(IntelePeer Raises New Funding ).” November 12, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕〔Fred Donovan, FierceEnterpriseCommunications. "(IntelePeer, BroadSoft, Taqua team to provide HD voice and video to VoIP customers )." January 31, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2013.〕〔Larry Hettick, Network World. "(Zeacom, IntelePeer Unveil UC Portfolio Enhancements )." July 9, 2013. Retrieved August 7, 2013.〕 The company is backed by venture capital firms VantagePoint Venture Partners, Kennet Partners, NorthCap Partners and EDF Ventures.〔Matt Marshall, VentureBeat. “(IntelePeer raises $18M for telephony-Web platform ).” November 11, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2009.〕 == Corporate history == IntelePeer 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.〔Kennet Partners. “(VoEx, Inc. Raises $12 Million of Preferred Equity Funding ).” July 12, 2006. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕 The company was originally based in Grand Rapids, Michigan.〔 In July 2006, the company completed a series B funding round for $12 million led by Kennet Partners.〔Link Silicon Valley. “(VoEX, Inc. Raises $12 Million of Preferred Equity Funding ).” July 12, 2006. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕 In September 2006, the company moved its global headquarters to Foster City, California.〔PR Web. “(VoEX Establishes New Global Headquarters in Foster City, California ).” September 20, 2006. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕 In October 2006, the company introduced its SuperRegistry,〔EDF Ventures. “(The VoEX SuperRegistry and peering solution disrupts the voice market with dramatic cost savings and global reach for member carriers and providers ).”〕 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.〔Rich Karpinski, Telephony Online. “(IntelePeer joins voice 2.0 parade ).” September 12, 2008. Retrieved July 10, 2009.〕 In October 2009, IntelePeer joined the Microsoft Partner Program〔Erik Linask, TMCnet. “(IntelePeer, Microsoft Drive CaaS in Web 2.0 World ).” October 27, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕 to integrate its platform with Windows Live applications.〔Telco 2.0 blog. “(IntelePeer: Reverse Engineering Telco 2.0 ).” February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕 In November 2008, IntelePeer completed a series C round of financing for $18 million.〔〔Om Malik, New York Times. “(Why IntelePeer Snagged $18 Million in Funding ).” November 11, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2009.〕 The financing was led by new investor VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California, with participation by existing investors.〔 In May 2011 the company initially filed to go public.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EDGAR Intelepeer S-1 )〕 In January 2012 the company withdrew its request to go public〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EDGAR Intelepeer RW )〕 and remains private at this time. In December 2013 IntelePeer sold its voice peering business to Peerless Network, Inc.〔http://article.wn.com/view/2013/12/02/PEERLESS_ACQUIRES_INTELEPEER_VOICE_PEERING_BUSINESS_Peerless/〕〔http://www.fcc.gov/document/comment-sought-domestic-214-transfer-intelepeer-peerless〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「IntelePeer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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