Viper Networks, Inc. provides voice over internet protocol telephony services, including the transmission of voice and data traffic for communications carriers and provision of enhanced web-based communication services to businesses and institutions. Voice over internet protocol telephony is the real time transmission of voice communications in the form of digitized ""packets"" of information over the internet or a private network, similar to the way in which e-mail and other data is transmitted. The company was founded in September 2000 and is headquartered in Troy, MI.