Flowroute

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Flowroute is the leading provider of cloud-based communications and is based in Seattle, Washington. Flowroute was founded by Bayan Towfiq, Jordan Levy, and Sean Hsieh in Irvine, California in 2007.

Flowroute's services include SIP trunking, local DIDs and toll-free numbers, outbound termination, and network services such as E911, CNAM Lookup, CNAM Storage, and local number portability. Flowroute is also a provider for Voxbone's iNum initiative and is a CLEC.

In 2013, Flowroute was listed as one of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States by Inc. magazine. It was also included on Deloitte's 2013 Technology Fast 500 list.

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Company

Founding

Founders Bayan Towfiq, Jordan Levy, and Sean Hsieh met while studying computer science at University of California, Irvine. It was during this time that Towfiq, who was also working as a telecom consultant, uncovered major vulnerabilities in open-source telecommunication software.

After college, Towfiq and Levy began working on Flowroute, with Hsieh joining a few months later. The company was bootstrapped, having raised no angel or venture capital investment. Towfiq and Levy often slept on friends' couches and relied on family for food. Recounting the experience, Towfiq said, "Nine or ten months passed before we had a prototype of Flowroute and had our first customers."

History

In February 2013, Flowroute relocated from Irvine, California to Seattle, Washington.

On June 24, 2013, Flowroute's SIP trunking services were used to enable interoperability between WebRTC endpoints and the PSTN during the launch of FreeSWITCH's WebRTC module. This extended PBX services to WebRTC portals on FreeSWITCH-based telephony platforms for the first time.

In August 2013, Flowroute was listed on Inc. magazine's annual list of the 5,000 fastest-growing private companies in the United States. Flowroute was noted for its 411 percent revenue growth over the prior three years. In November 2013, Flowroute placed in position 70 on Deloitte's 2013 Technology Fast 500 list which includes both public and private companies.

In 2015, Flowroute's CEO, Bayan Towfiq, became a Pacific Northwest semi-finalist for Ernst & Young's 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

On September 15, 2015, Flowroute announced they have become the first pure SIP provider to become a certificated carrier in the United States.

On September 30, 2015, Flowroute announced the availability of its beta API which provides developers with tools to apply calling and messaging capabilities to their apps and services.

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Features

Flowroute provides customizable voice and messaging services for Cloud PBX providers.

Inbound Calling

Inbound calls to a customer's Flowroute account can be routed via SIP URI, host, or phone number. Depending on their choice of subscription plan, customers can choose to have either unlimited inbound call channels and pay only for the minutes used, or have a fixed number of inbound channels but receive unlimited minutes at a more predictable rate.

Outbound Calling

Flowroute uses their own carrier platform to ensure that the outbound call audio is delivered over the shortest path possible. Outbound SIP trunking channels are unlimited.

Text Messaging

Flowroute enables enterprises and developers to integrate text messaging functionality from a single toll-free or long code phone number into their applications and services.

Toll-free numbers

Customers can purchase US/CAN toll-free numbers, as well as special order vanity numbers.

Local phone numbers

Customers can purchase or port in local phone numbers from rate centers across the US and Canada.

Toll-fraud protection

Flowroute provides real-time customizable toll-fraud protections. Customers can restrict destinations, limit rates, block external IPs, and more from their account manager.

Additional Services

Additional services include CNAM Storage, CNAM Lookup, and E911.

Flowroute API

Access the API at the Flowroute Developer portal to obtain resources like technical documentation, sample source code, and reference guides to create new and innovative applications.