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MetaSwitch Surpasses Century Mark With Fast-Growing CLEC Customer Base
Competitive Carriers Continue to Choose Powerful MetaSwitch Infrastructure and Applications to Build Differentiated Services and Drive Revenue
| Source: MetaSwitch
DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - October 9, 2007) - COMPTEL PLUS -- More than 100 Competitive Local
Exchange Carriers (CLECs) are now among the customers of MetaSwitch, a
leading vendor of carrier-class softswitch and applications solutions.
CLECs have selected the company's softswitch architecture and associated
products to deploy advanced services and maintain a competitive edge in the
market.
Recent MetaSwitch customers who helped the softswitch innovator pass the
100 CLEC milestone include Broadview Networks. CLECs focus on delivering
quality service for their customers, maximizing operational efficiency and
consistently generating new revenues. A steady flow of CLECs are choosing
MetaSwitch, leveraging the company's core switching, MetaSphere Service
Delivery Platform (SDP) and application suite for quick deployment of
high-value services and an increase in bottom-line profitability.
"As a CLEC serving 20 markets, including all major metro areas, in the
communications-intensive Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, we continually evolve
our network and services to provide over 75,000 small and medium-size
business customers with the total solution to their communications needs,
including a full suite of IP-based communications and managed services,"
said Ken Shulman, Broadview Networks' chief technology and chief
information officer. "Deployed in 2006, the MetaSwitch VP Series softswitch
provided the deployment flexibility, robust feature set and evolutionary
path necessary to form the core platform to meet our current and future
needs cost effectively and rapidly across our entire footprint. In
addition, the MetaSwitch team has proven to be a true partner throughout
the process."
Broadview joins many other notable carriers who have made the decision to
stake their businesses on powerful MetaSwitch technology. Other large,
successful CLECs who have built upon a MetaSwitch foundation are One
Communications and TelePacific.
"At One Communications, we pride ourselves on our ability to consistently
deliver superior products and services using the latest in cutting-edge
technology," explained Russ Oliver, executive vice president of strategy at
One Communications. "MetaSwitch is a critical component in engineering the
best-in-class, highly scalable network needed to deliver first-class
communications services to our more than 160,000 customers."
Russell Shipley, senior vice president, wholesale and network services for
TelePacific Communications, said: "TelePacific is pleased with
our MetaSwitch deployment and the relationships between our companies. Our
partnership is a result of TelePacific's strategic acquisition of Arrival
Communications, where MetaSwitch technology had been in production for
several years. We are very happy with the dedication of MetaSwitch toward
best-of-breed technical support and products. The cost efficient and full
featured VP3510, which we have deployed in a fully redundant,
geographically distributed architecture, has become a cornerstone element
in the growth and evolution of the TelePacific network."
MetaSwitch recently unveiled MetaSphere, an application suite and service
delivery platform, enabling carriers to streamline development and delivery
of advanced services across multiple media types and end user devices.
"With next generation infrastructure from MetaSwitch, there is huge
opportunity for CLECs to deliver competitively priced applications to
customers who have been underserved by incumbent carriers," said Graeme
MacArthur, MetaSwitch chief executive officer. "We can enable CLECs to
quickly rollout offerings such as Web-based control of phone services or
low cost phone/Internet bundles."
Please visit the MetaSwitch exhibit (booth 900) CompTel Plus October 7-10
to learn more about its softswitch infrastructure and MetaSphere
technology. Additionally, MetaSwitch Vice President of Product Management
and Technology Strategy Martin Taylor will speak as part of a panel
discussion "Advanced IP-NGN Services for the Connected Business" on
Tuesday, October 9 at 9 a.m.
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications
solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its widely
deployed core session control and media/signaling gateway products support
a full range of Class 4/5 capabilities, while its MetaSphere service
delivery platform and applications suite enables a broad set of hosted IP
communications services. Customers include many of the world's leading
operators of wireline, wireless and cable networks, with deployments that
scale to millions of subscribers. For more information, please visit
www.metaswitch.com.
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