Services

Wholesale Telecommunications Services:

In order to accelerate the delivery of competitive telecommunications services, Windward Telecom acts as a carrier's carrier providing international bandwidth to:

• Domestic telecommunications concessionaires in Trinidad and Tobago
• Internet Service Providers (including VoIP)
• Mobile and Fixed Wireless Carriers
• Call Centre Operators
• Government and Educational Institutions, and
• Foreign Carriers seeking termination in the region.

Trinidad Offshore Fibre Electronics (TOFFE):

Windward Telecom's 700 km Trinidad Offshore Fibre Electronics (TOFFE) project has the following objectives

• To provide virtually unlimited telecommunications bandwidth to oil and gas companies operating in T&T and Venezuelan territorial waters to enable such entities to operate their facilities in an economically-efficient and environmentally-conscious manner;
• To provide bandwidth to Government agencies in Tobago seeking to enhance information-intensive development;
• To provide bandwidth to Government agencies monitoring national security and environmental affairs within T&T territorial waters;
• To provide bandwidth to alternative telecommunications carriers operating in Tobago and the more remote regions of southeastern Trinidad; and
• To provide transport services to international carriers from South America through the Galeota Point landing station.

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IDD Voice Termination:

Windward Telecom provides wholesale voice termination on a carrier-grade basis to Trinidad and Tobago for all wireline and wireless carriers including:

• Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) landline
• B-Mobile (TSTT Mobile)
• Digicel Trinidad
• Flow (Cable Trinidad)

All voice traffic traverses Windward Telecom's POP in Terremark's NAP of the Americas in Miami, over its private network to Windward Telecom's Network Operations Centre in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. This network architecture enables Windward Telecom to manage and monitor the undersea network between countries allowing control of facility usage, ensuring voice quality. Accepted methods of interconnection are SIP, SS7, ISDN PRI and MF.

Windward Telecom provides voice origination and aggregation services for a number of call centres and domestic internet service providers. Windward Telecoms service offering will expand in the second half of 2008 when Equal Access is introduced in Trinidad and Tobago.