The winner of the 2011 Best International Business Award is EcoCarrier Inc.! EcoCarrier Incorporated is a private Canadian corporation which is supported by partners who are leading technology providers, service providers, carriers, and network operators who have achieved years of profitable growth and successful ground breaking work in telecom products and services and are currently carrying monthly 10 billion minutes of call traffic over packet-switched network. The VoIP network deployed is non-PC based and is developed on Lucent’s open-ended industry standard architecture in order to produce the most reliable and scalable enhanced VoIP solution that exists today. It is a carrier class VoIP network that uses hybrid soft-switch architecture to optimally balance intelligence between the edge and center of the network. It is dedicated to open VoIP standards and supports the H.323, MGCP, H248/MEGACO, and SIP signalling protocols. It transports VoIP and PSTN traffic from any industry standard source. It supports multiple digital signalling standards, such as SS7, ISUP, and most variants of ISDN. Feature Group D/B is also supported with both MFR1 and DTMF digits. It delivers toll quality voice with or without compression – currently its US traffic is not compressed It delivers the highest quality of service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year via a network designed to bypass all public Internet exchange points.