Bresnan Chooses MetaSwitch for Business Services Over Cable.MetaSwitch Solutions to Enable Leading MSO (1) (Multiple System Operator) Typically refers to a cable TV organization that owns more than one cable system, but it may refer to an operator of only one system. to Deploy Advanced SIP-Based Services in Four Western States ALAMEDA, Calif. -- MetaSwitch, a leading vendor of next-generation carrier switching and application solutions, announced today that Bresnan Communications, one of the country's leading cable operators, is deploying its softswitch, media gateway and application server products for business telephone services. Bresnan currently serves approximately 300,000 customers in Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, making it the 10th largest multiple systems operator (MSO) in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Bresnan plans to leverage its cable infrastructure to offer carrier-class digital telephone services to business customers in early 2007. MetaSwitch's technology will allow Bresnan to provide a broad range of services, including Centrex, digital PBX (digital Private Branch Exchange) A modern PBX that uses digital methods for switching in contrast to older PBXs that use analog methods. trunks, and traditional telephone services to small and mid-sized business customers using hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. ) plant and multi-line embedded multimedia terminal adaptors (eMTAs). "We have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a flexible solution that could support a wide range of business telephone services and applications in our markets Co PRIs, digital trunks, centrex services and traditional business line features Co utilizing a combination of HFC, fiber and leased facilities. After fully evaluating all the softswitch vendors, we identified MetaSwitch as the best fit for our network based on a stellar reputation of customer support, features, scalability, and proven carrier-grade reliability," said Don Helms Don Helms (born February 28, 1927) is a steel guitarist best known as a member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys group. Born in New Brockton, Alabama, Helms has performed with many Country Music artists throughout the years including playing steel guitar on Lefty Frizzell's , director of operations at Bresnan. "Cable operators are recognizing that business customers are a highly profitable source of new revenue," said Andrew Randall Andrew Randall (born 1974) is a British murderer. He murdered his seven-week-old daughter Jessica Randall on the morning of 21 November 2005. Randall, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, admitted murder at his trial on 15 November 2006 at Northampton Crown Court. , vice president of marketing at MetaSwitch. "Bresnan is one of nearly 250 service providers who have turned to MetaSwitch for IP-based carrier voice solutions in both Telco and Cable environments." "The Bresnan-MetaSwitch deal is important for the cable market, as it offers clear evidence both of MetaSwitch's entry into the cable space, and also of the increasing uptake of SIP-based solutions that foreshadow fore·shad·ow tr.v. fore·shad·owed, fore·shad·ow·ing, fore·shad·ows To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage. fore·shad a migration to the PacketCable 2.0 specification," said Ronald Gruia, principal telecom analyst, at Frost & Sullivan. "The enterprise market is an attractive opportunity for the cable operators to tap on, hence it will represent the next battlefield between MSOs and the telcos." About MetaSwitch MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of IP Multimedia Subsystem An integrated network for telecommunications carriers that uses the IP protocol as its foundation for packetized voice, video and data. Supporting voice over IP (VoIP) in all its flavors (SIP, H.323, MGCP, etc. (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) switching and applications solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its widely deployed call agent, media/signaling gateway and application server platform supports a full range of legacy Class 4/5 capabilities and hosted unified communications services, and scales from a few hundred to millions of subscribers in both integrated and distributed configurations. Customers include incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers, as well as operators of broadband wireless, cable and fiber networks. MetaSwitch is a division of established telecom technology provider Data Connection. The company is consistently profitable and privately held, with main US offices in California and Virginia, and European headquarters in London, UK. For more information: www.metaswitch.com About Bresnan Communications Bresnan Communications is a broadband telecommunications company founded by Bill Bresnan in 1984. The company serves more than 300,000 customers throughout Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Today, Bresnan offers advanced digital voice, video and high-speed Internet services including digital phone service, digital video recorder See DVR. service, high-definition TV, video-on-demand and high-speed Internet service. The company also serves the business community through its Business Services and Advertising Sales divisions. More information about Bresnan is available at www.bresnan.com. Data Connection and MetaSwitch are trademarks of Data Connection Limited and Data Connection Corporation. Brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright [c] 2006 Data Connection Limited |
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