A major component of a private stream-routing network is digitization. To understand the difference in an end-to-end digitized call, consider for a moment the wave of remastering of popular classic songs that is still in progress today. The songs were made clearer and more vibrant by going back to the original recordings and digitizing directly rather than the old copy-of-a-copy reproductions that were distributed originally. In a pure media call, there is no generational loss to cause distortion which makes it even better than a call that has traversed miles of old copper. With a private stream-routing network, not only audio, but also video streams can move unaltered from one party to another. QoStar’s private stream-routing networks are all part of the QoStar UltraPBX which is a retail customer of the old fashioned telephone network. When calls pass from the old network to ours, only one gateway to an Interconnected VoIP provider is involved, similar to a fresh digital master, creating the best sound when it is converted back to audio for our user.