· AVOP is designed for VoIP/FoIP providers seeking relief from vanishing long-diatance wholesale margins .

· At once, AVOP offers its members an opportunity to gain more minutes by terminating traffic and take advantage of least cost VoIP/FoIP routing .

· Members can sign up with AVOP as either an originating or a terminating gateway or as both .

· There is no membership fee .

· No deposit is required for members acting solely as seller .

· AVOP reduces service providers dependence on Tier 1-2 carriers .

· AVOP eliminates a service provider's need to negotiate multiple bilateral agreements or to make upfront financial commitments in order to secure favorable routes and rates .

· By leveraging the power of AVOP's global network and existing infrastructure, sellers and buyers can also avoid the expense of co-locating servers at remote locations or building managed private IP networks .

As a Buyer    

· Preserves and enhance VoIP and FoIP margins .

· Lowers startup cost; reduces infrastructure investment; eliminates need to negotiate bilateral agreement with other service providers .

· Easy integrating with billing system .

· AVOP is vendor neutral . Use of AVOP gateways and gatekeepers is not required, which enables Buyers and Sellers to leverage existing Cisco, Lucent, and other hardware .

· AVOP synchronizes call authorization and routing databases among members .

As a Seller    

· Provides ongoing revenues to seller; guaranteed compensation for delivering fax and voice messages .

· Provides Call Detail Records (CDR) for tracking and billing purposes .

· Routes calls automatically to the best terminating gateway .

· Seller offering the best rates on specific routes gain new sources of traffic and revenue to earn a higher return on their investment .

Payment and settlements

As calls are released, AVOP collects CDRs that detail usage reports from the seller . The CDRs are then assembled, reconciled and rated . They can be downloaded and imported into billing applications as comma-separated value text files or provided as RADIUS account records and returned directly to the originating device for real-time reconciliation, rating, and billing .

AVOP acts as a single point of contact, posting the rate each carrier charges to terminate calls in its country and then offers those rates to all other carriers who wish to terminate the calls .

By joining AVOP, carriers and service providers will be able to avoid the time and expense of negotiating and managing one-time agreements with other carriers or telecom providers .

AVOP handles routing management, settlements, billing and administration, allowing carriers to save on staff and administration costs .

AVOP authorizes, routes, and rates each call between originating and terminating Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and Fax-over-IP (FoIP) gateways, thereby allowing end-to-end operation, transfer, and mediation of VoIP and FoIP calls over the internet .

AVOP purchased from one seller and sell it to the buyer . AVOP is a mechanism that enables sellers and buyers to buy and sell traffic and complete transaction between an Originating Gateway and Terminating Gateway . AVOP takes care of the administrative functions of each transation .