Cedar Point Communications' SAFARI Named ''Product of the Year'' Finalist By MTC.DERRY, N.H. -- Cedar Point Cedar Point is a 364 acre (1.5 km²) amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, U.S. on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. It is one of the world's largest amusement parks (by ride count) with 69 rides and currently holds the world record for most roller coasters with 17, one Communications, the leader in integrated packet-based voice and multimedia switching technologies for the cable telecommunications industry, announced today that its SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System has been named a finalist for the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council's "Product of the Year" award. SAFARI C(Cubed) is one of four products under consideration in the voting by the MTC's membership. The winner will be announced March 31 at the awards ceremony at the Cambridge Hyatt. Bill Schleyer, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Adelphia Communications, will be honored at the same event as Key Industry Player. "As cable phone services are launched in Boston and throughout the country in the year ahead, operators will be seeking architectures that provide the simplest, most cost effective route to deployment," said Dave Spear, executive vice president, strategy and market development for Cedar Point Communications. "It is gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see the recognition that SAFARI C(Cubed)'s ability to provide high-quality, highly-reliable service via a single integrated chassis is receiving not only from the industry, but from the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council." Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) is the only totally integrated carrier class VoIP switch that incorporates -- at no additional cost -- all of the components that make up the PacketCable(TM) voice switching infrastructure, eliminating the need for operators to purchase, maintain, upgrade and regression test separate Call Management Servers, Media Gateways, Record Keeping Servers, Announcement Servers, Signaling Gateways A network device that converts control signals from one format to another. For example, a SIGTRAN signaling gateway converts SS7 signals of the PSTN to SIGTRAN for transport over IP. Contrast with media gateway. See SIGTRAN. , Ethernet Switches A device that connects clients and servers to each other in an Ethernet network. See switched Ethernet. and CALEA CALEA Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (Fairfax, Virginia) CALEA Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 CALEA Communication Assistance to Low Enforcement Act servers. Designed to accommodate not only current voice switching needs but also the anticipated migration to video telephony See videophone. and multimedia services, the PacketCable(TM)-qualified SAFARI C(Cubed) provides superior performance and reliability, significantly reducing capital expenditures, system integration and operations costs for cable operators offering telephony services while increasing network integrity, security and privacy. About Cedar Point Communications Cedar Point Communications' totally integrated voice and multimedia switches provide cable system operators with cost-efficient, less complex voice-over-IP alternatives to distributed soft-switching cable telephony See cable telephone. options. Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System is a PacketCable(TM)-qualified, Carrier Class Cable (C "Cubed") solution that supports legacy circuit and PacketCable(TM) voice services, as well as video telephony and non-traditional SIP-based devices. The company is based in Derry, NH. For more information, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com. CableLabs(R) and PacketCable(TM) are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. |
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