SignalWire raises $30M to grow its distributed communications network
SignalWire, a software-defined telecom that uses distributed infrastructure that runs in the cloud, today announced that it raised $30 million. The company says the funds will be put toward expanding its workforce and supporting product R&D.
SignalWire, which was founded in 2017, offers an elastic cloud network that lets companies integrate messaging and video capabilities into their apps or infrastructure. SignalWire’s cloud messaging platform supports programmable SMS that can be used to reach customers on their preferred channel, or to embed chat experiences without having to reconfigure network policies.
“SignalWire was born in open-source, our core founding team developed the most widely deployed open-source communications platform in the world, the de-facto standard for software-defined communications products and services, FreeSWITCH,” COO Sean Heiney told VentureBeat via email. “SignalWire was founded to democratize this powerful open-source technology platform via an elastic cloud network and developer-friendly APIs.”
SignalWire’s network of 15 datacenters is designed as a centralized system, with nodes that are containerized, cache-equipped, and optimized to run across public and private cloud providers across the globe. The company says that its network can intelligently route traffic like voice calls to the closest appropriate server, endpoint, or public switched telephone network providers, ostensibly reducing latency and data access times.
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