Bandwidth.com is an Internet-based company that provides Internet and telephone service primarily to business and government users. Currently providing automated real-time pricing and procurement of business-class Internet connectivity through various carriers

Carrier system

In telecommunication, a carrier system is a multichannel telecommunications system in which a number of individual channels are multiplexed for transmission...

, it also offers hosted VoIP, SIP

Session Initiation Protocol

The Session Initiation Protocol is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol . The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party or multiparty sessions...

 trunking and bulk origination and termination services.

Bandwidth.com offers four families of products:

• Data / Internet services
• Voice / VoIP services
• Managed network services
• Wireless Mobile services
• Enterprise services

The company is focused on providing small and medium businesses with voice and data services. It has recently made huge inroads into servicing the IP-PBX market space, becoming the preferred VoIP service provider for some of the top private branch exchange (PBX) manufacturers, including Mitel

Mitel

Mitel Networks, is a high-tech company providing unified communications solutions for business. 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 products.Mitel is headquartered in Ottawa,...

 and ShoreTel

ShoreTel

ShoreTel is a company based in Sunnyvale, CA. They are a provider of commercial, closed-source VoIP products. Current implementations of ShoreTel systems include telephone handsets, as well as voicemail servers, switching hardware, analog phone outputs, and other telecommunications-related...

.

History

Originally formed in 1999, Bandwidth.com began as a home office

Small office/home office

Small office/home office, or SOHO, refers to the category of business or cottage industry which involves from 1 to 10 workers. SOHO can also stand for single office/home office....

 start-up company in a spare bedroom of co-founder David Morken's Park City, Utah

Park City, Utah

Park City is a town in Summit and Wasatch counties in the U.S. state of Utah. It is considered to be part of the Wasatch Back. The city is southeast of downtown Salt Lake City and from Salt Lake City's east edge of Sugar House along Interstate 80. The population was 7,558 at the 2010 census...

 home. His goal was to form a telecommunications procurement company that focused on three key points of quality: selection, savings, and service. The company's rapid growth led him to relocate the business to Cary, North Carolina

Cary, North Carolina

Cary is a large town and suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina in Wake and Chatham counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located almost entirely in Wake County, it is the second largest municipality in that county and the third largest municipality in The Triangle after Raleigh and Durham...

. As of January 5, 2009, Bandwidth.com maintains a workforce

Workforce

The workforce is the labour pool in employment. It is generally used to describe those working for a single company or industry, but can also apply to a geographic region like a city, country, state, etc. The term generally excludes the employers or management, and implies those involved in...

 of over 150 employees, and had reported 2009 revenues in excess of US $87 million.

Partnership

In July 2011, Bandwidth.com started working with Alabama's 911 centers to allow people to send text messages, pictures and videos to 911 in 2012.