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Neutral Tandem, Inc. provides tandem interconnection services to competitive telecommunications carriers, including wireless, wireline, cable, and broadband telephony companies in the United States. Its patented tandem services allow competitive carriers to exchange traffic between their networks without using an incumbent local exchange carrier Class 4 telephone switch or establishing direct connections. Unlike the ILEC Class 4 tandem switches which only operate using conventional time-division multiplexing or TDM protocal, Neutral Tandem's network utilizes multilayer switches which automatically switch Internet protocol (IP)-originated or TDM traffic to terminating carriers, using either protocol. The company supports IP-to-IP, IP-to-TDM, TDM-to-IP, and TDM-to-TDM traffic with protocol conversion and gateway functionality. As of December 31, 2007, its network connected 891 competitive carrier switches, creating approximately 792,990 switch-to-switch routes serving 255 million telephone numbers assigned to these carriers. Neutral Tandem was founded in 2001 by Jim Hynes, the founder of Colt Telecom Group, and Ron Gavillet, who created the concept for the company and authored the Company's initial patents. Funded by New Enterprise Associates}}, [[Mesirow Financial, and Doll Capital Management, Neutral Tandem went public on the NASDAQ on November 1, 2007 under the symbol TNDM. Neutral Tandem is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Today, Neutral Tandem is used by nearly every national and regional wireless carrier, cable, CLEC and VoIP provider in the markets it serves; and its network carries over four billion minutes of traffic per month.