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The Next Communications Network

The Next Communications Network is the private international network over which we deliver highest-quality international and domestic long distance voice and data telephony services at significant cost savings. In 2011, we transmitted more than 5 billion minutes of traffic over the network, growing our revenues to more than $140 million per annum. The Next Communications Network's architecture is scalable and proprietary. The Next Communications Network consists of four principal elements:

Points of Presence. Points of presence digitize voice signals into data, allowing transmission and retrieval over a broadband data network.

The Transmission Medium. This is the Internet, which is the backbone of the Next Communication Network.

The NxtGn Voice, Video and Data Platform. This is our proprietary software and switchless routing platform, which is the heart of the Next Communications Network. With high-throughput interface into the ASR 1006 switching fabric and interconnectivity through the ASR 9000 series router designed and built by our technology partner Cisco, NxtGn’s proprietary network design and software enable traditional IP voice, video, and data services as well as advanced applications such as NxtGn’s innovative new solution for providing HD video in per-minute billing increments. NxtGn’s call routing engines and integrated traffic monitoring, reporting, billing, and infrastructure management platforms deliver scalability, security, cost efficiency, and the best stability in the domestic and international long distance market. The platform ensures that bandwidth is available to support sessions before they begin, and facilitates per-session control and management of IP voice and multimedia traffic on standards-based protocols such as SIP and H.323. The system can scale to support more than 200,000 simultaneous sessions on a single chassis. Our NxtGn Voice, Video, and Data Platform is located within our Global Network Operations Center in Miami, Florida.

The Next Global Network Operations Center. This is the facility which houses our primary point of presence and the NxtGn Voice, Video, and Data Platform, and from which we monitor and manage the voice and data traffic transmitted through the network.