Virtutone Networks has introduced its Simple Network Access Portal (SNAP!), saying that it allows Virtutone customers and resellers to quickly provision and manage voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) lines from any Internet connection in the world.

Jason Allen, president and CEO of Virtutone, said that the development of SNAP! will help Virtutone to advance its position as a global provider of VoIP and fax over Internet protocol (FoIP) to the drilling segment of the oil and gas market, as well as open up new markets that need a simple way to activate and deactivate lines and telephony features.

Allen said that SNAP! is an “extremely” advanced provisioning tool for the VoIP industry today, which allows the company’s customers to activate new voice or fax lines in almost any area code or exchange in North America, Australia, United Kingdom and in over 60 other countries.

This is especially important to companies who supply communication packages to oil and gas drilling rigs in North America, Allen said, adding that a drilling rig may be in one state for several weeks and then quickly move to another.

Noting that each move requires new telephone numbers, Allen said that while it takes other VoIP providers days, or even weeks, to provision a new telephone number, Virtutone's customers can provision voice lines themselves in just minutes, providing them a significant advantage.

A technology company based in Sherwood Park, Virtutone Networks is a supplier of managed telecommunication services. It offers VoIP, FoIP, Hosted PBX (News - Alert) services, DSL and T1 data circuits, wireless solutions for mobile work forces and SCADA networks, and network management and IT-related products.

The company is said to have taken a leadership role in the development of Web-based provisioning tools for VoIP services, allowing its customers to activate new lines within minutes instead of days or weeks.

SNAP! enables Virtutone's customers to provision session initiation protocol (SIP) lines – voice or fax – from more than 9,000 local exchanges in North America, any exchange in Australia, United Kingdom, and in over other 60 countries worldwide.

In October 2011, the company acquired certain assets of Transcendent Global Networks LLC (TGN).

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