Vendor Spotlight on Pulsar360


Pulsar360: strategic partners with the TAS industry

Pulsar360, Inc. is a Colorado-based company, with origins dating back to 2001. It’s one of the oldest VoIP service companies in the United States and Canada and an early proponent of cloud technology for the communications industry. Today, as an established unified-communication-as-a-service (UCaaS) provider, Pulsar360 delivers a comprehensive set of offerings including:

  • a cloud-based enterprise class IP PBX,
  • premise-based IP PBX,
  • session initiation protocol (SIP) trunking,
  • business continuity disaster recovery solutions,
  • T.38 faxing that meets HIPAA, GLBA, and other industry compliance regulations, and
  • carrier services.

Unparalleled Experience and Expertise

Pulsar360’s top-notch leadership team has years of experience serving the telecommunication needs of business customers, as well as building and managing enterprises of significant scale in the telecommunications industry. They understand that long-term customer relationships are earned, and customers will not be acquired and retained based on price and technology alone.

They require their team and their authorized partners to spend the appropriate time upfront to validate the integrity of the customers’ network. This is followed by a consultative sales process to develop customized solutions for their clients, as opposed to selling a packaged solution.

Once awarded the business, an in-depth implementation process is used to guarantee that design and features meet the customer’s requirements and expectations. The resulting smooth transition to the new services, responsive communication, and resolution of issues are paramount in establishing these long-term relationships.

As an employee-owned company, everyone has a personal stake in customer satisfaction and the company’s success. One testament to their customer satisfaction is that an outside industry consultancy (Franklin Court Partners) reported that Pulsar360 has the lowest attrition rate in the industry. They’re continually focused on providing an excellent customer experience, as well as expanding and enhancing their suite of service offerings.

99.99 Percent Reliability

Pulsar360 is one of a handful of providers with facilities and networks in both the United States and Canada. They have been perfecting their platform and network for over seventeen years. Their operating platforms are some of the most advanced in North America.

They currently operate four data centers (three in the US and one in Canada), each with redundant infrastructure for all their service offerings. In addition, they have a presence in five additional geographically dispersed data centers.

Pulsar360 provides services to hundreds of call centers and telephone answering service customers. Understanding the special requirements of this industry, they have made a significant investment in their network infrastructure and solutions.

National Network Redundancy

Each Pulsar360 datacenter has connectivity to several national networks. If there is a problem with quality or service issues with one network, calls route to another. With tier II access, Pulsar360 can re-route customer traffic away from regional carrier issues.

Trunk Redundancy

They provision each SIP trunk to two of their geographically dispersed data centers. If there is a data center issue, carrier issue at the data center, or other problem, the other data center takes over for all trunks and DIDs associated with those trunks.

Trunk Bursting

Pulsar360 provides 20 percent burstable trunking to call center and answering service clients at no additional charge. This can be adjusted even higher on the fly for seasonal needs.

Toll-Free Number Redundancy

All toll-free numbers are provisioned with two national carriers. In the event of a major failure at one carrier, all the customer’s toll-free numbers are directed to the secondary carrier.

Customer Administration Portal

This feature provides instant activation of DIDs and toll-free numbers, administrative management for all services and features, and multiple reports.

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions

Pulsar360 provides several automatic failover alternatives, from simple automatic failover to secondary and tertiary internet connections, to automatic failover to a hot stand-by cloud business continuity and disaster recovery system.

If the customer’s premise or cloud system goes down, calls automatically failover and are delivered directly to operator desktops via softphones. Calling party ID and customer name or account number are delivered to the operator. It also includes a cloud-based IVR with multiple call queues, skills-based routing, and more when in failover mode. These options are flexible and customizable based on the customer’s unique requirements.

Quality of Service

With Pulsar’s SD-WAN offering they can provide quality of service (QoS) over the internet to their data centers. This—coupled with their 24/7 internet quality of service monitoring and issue alerting that includes scheduled VoIP quality tests with archived test results—insures they deliver the reliability to meet and exceed their customer’s expectations.

Carrier Partnerships

Pulsar360 has wholesale arrangements with numerous global carriers and competitive local exchange carriers. In addition to offering competitive rates and to alleviate finger pointing, the network services can be in Pulsar360’s name. They will receive issue notification by their circuit monitoring and will interact directly with carriers. They also interact directly with the customer’s system provider on issues. This provides one point of responsibility for their customers.

Pulsar360: strategic partners with the TAS industry

Over the years Pulsar360 has received numerous awards and recognitions. They recently received the 2020 Internet Telephony “Product of the Year Award” and the “Hosted VoIP Excellence Award” before that. They were also named a “Top 10 Cloud Communications Company” by Cloud Technology Insights.