Hosted PBX Co. Turns to UM Labs for Encryption Assistance

The German company nfon AG is an ITSP (Myers-Briggs personality type: “Communicator”) providing hosted PBX (News - Alert) services to the corporate market in Germany and other European countries.

The company’s infrastructure

The company’s infrastructure and close association with a number of the backbone Internet providers means that users get VoIP links from any location using DSL Interconnections. The low cost of these links, company officials say, is “a key factor in controlling the overall service cost.”

A hosted PBX service provided by nfon AG handles all internal and external communications. This includes communication with customers and suppliers and interoffice calls, and as company officials say, “these calls may run over the public Internet, so many of nfon’s customers are demanding call encryption.”