XO Communications is a telecommunications company owned by XO Holdings, Inc . XO provides voice, data and IP services to small and medium-sized business, large enterprises, government, cable TV companies, content providers, telecommunications companies and wireless service providers in more than 75 major metropolitan markets across the United States.

Network

XO is a facilities-based backbone provider in the U.S. and operates a nationwide multi-10 Gigabit transit-free network (sometimes marketed as a Tier 1 network

Tier 1 network

A tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol network that participates in the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection, also known as settlement-free peering.-Definition:...

) and owns significant fiber optic network assets, including an 18,000 route-mile inter-city network and over 9,000 route-miles within 40 major metropolitan markets. XO currently carries more than 15 billion minutes of Voice over IP

Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...

 (VoIP) traffic across its network each year.

Services

The company offers a broad range of services to businesses and its wholesale customers. These services include:

• Local and Long Distance Voice services
• Dedicated Internet Access services
• MPLS IP-VPN
• Hosted PBX/Enterprise Cloud Communications
• Enterprise Cloud Security
• VPLS
• IP PBX
• SIP
• SIP trunking
• Enterprise SIP
• Ethernet
• VoIP
• Private Line services
• Wavelength services
• IP Transit
• VoIP Origination
• VoIP Termination
• Colocation services
• Managed Services (hardware, voice and data packages)
• Wireless Ethernet and Private Line Access
• Web Hosting
• Web Development
• Web Design

XO Network

XO has a wealth of network assets that are well positioned for the convergence of voice and data IP services. The high capacity XO IP network has the highest levels of performance and reliability. A suite of world-class tools that facilitate the communication of customer information and continuous network monitoring set the XO network apart from its rivals.

High capacity IP network with a multi-terabit routing core provides speed, capacity and flexibility today while allowing XO to offer services that take advantage of future IP and Voice over IP technological evolutions. Advanced transport network with terabit capacity deployed nationwide enables XO to provision services faster and provide a broad range of high-speed network transport services.

Peering infrastructure to the Internet with extensive peering relationships, XO provides direct paths to all other major Network Service Providers. Internet Access access POPs in the local markets. The extensive XO footprint ensures controlled connectivity costs.

Distribution Channels

XO sells its services through three channels: the direct sales channel, the indirect sales channel

Sales outsourcing

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, and the wholesale division.

2010 Top Channel Partners

Rank	Agency
1	Intelisys Communications
2	CNSG
3	PlanetOne Communications
4	World Telecom Group
5	Microcorp
6	X4 Solutions
7	CDW Direct
8	Simplify
9	Telarus Telarus Telarus, Inc. is a national sales agency that holds contracts with many commercial telecommunication carriers. Telarus consolidates the sales volume of hundreds of independent sales agents. As a master agent Telarus functions as the top layer in the 2-tier distribution model that is prevelent in...
10	Telecom Brokerage Inc.

External links

• XO Communications official website
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