How Wholesale VoIP Works
Wholesale VoIP enables the bulk routing of voice traffic over IP networks between telecommunications carriers and service providers. Rather than maintaining physical circuit-switched connections, wholesale VoIP providers use SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) to establish, manage, and terminate voice sessions. Traffic is routed through media gateways and SBCs (Session Border Controllers) that convert between TDM and IP formats, apply codec transcoding, and enforce quality of service policies. This architecture dramatically reduces per-minute costs compared to traditional PSTN interconnections while enabling instant scalability.