Cedar Point Communications Announces Field Trial For SAFARI VoIP Solution With MetroCast Cablevision.Business Editors NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 2002 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, a New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). company developing an innovative PacketCable(TM) based telephony Meaning "sound over distance," it refers to electronically transmitting the human voice. In the beginning, telephony dealt only with analog signals in the circuit-switched networks of the telephone companies. solution for cable system operators, announced today a VoIP field trial of the SAFARI C (Cubed) Media Switching System with MetroCast Cablevision in New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . MetroCast will conduct joint trials this summer and fall of SAFARI C (Cubed), the first totally integrated Carrier Class Cable ("C Cubed") telephony solution designed exclusively for cable system operators of all sizes, in systems passing 90,000 homes in Belmont and Rochester, NH and Sanford, ME. Service partners will include Worldbridge Technical Services, a division of C-COR.net, and Lambert Communications Group. SAFARI C (Cubed) delivers key high quality, secure, carrier class attributes of today's Class 5 voice switches with the elements in distributed VoIP networks in a single CableLabs(R) PacketCable(TM) based voice switching chassis Pronounced "chah-see," it is a physical structure that holds everything or that everything is attached to. A computer's cabinet is often called the chassis. . As either a new deployment or an elegant migration from circuit switched to packet voice, SAFARI C (Cubed) provides superior performance and reliability, significantly reducing capital expenditures, system integration and operations costs for cable operators offering telephony services. Cedar Point began lab trials of the technology with Comcast Corporation in November, 2001. SAFARI C (Cubed) will be demonstrated at the Cedar Point Communications Booth, #3841, during the National Cable Television Association Show, May 5-8 in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . "MetroCast is an outstanding fit for this field trial, geographically, technically and philosophically," said George Kassas, founder and vice president, operations and business development of Cedar Point Communications. "Its proximity to our offices will enable the close working relationships between our staffs that are essential with any new venture, and the size of its systems will demonstrate the scalability of SAFARI C (Cubed) to the entire cable community. "Voice services are one of the real untapped revenue sources for cable system operators," said Steve Murdough, MetroCast Director of Engineering. "Until now, there have been no economically viable ways for systems under 100,000 subscribers to deliver telephony services. We anticipate that the efficiencies realized by SAFARI C (Cubed) will enable us for the first time to test and evaluate the voice business with a sound business model." Scheduled to start this summer, MetroCast initially will provide voice services to a limited test base of customers in its Rochester NH system. When fully deployed, the service will include such critical primary line attributes as 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 ( Law Enforcement support) and E-911, within a secure packet network. Worldbridge and Lambert Communications will handle all network integration, back office functions, and operational aspects of the trial. SAFARI C (Cubed)'s high-density and modular architecture enables it to be deployable economically in any size cable operator serving area. The solution utilizes a unique set of PacketClass(TM) technologies that combine Call Management Server, Media Gateway, Media Gateway Controller, Announcement Server and Signaling Gateway 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. functionality into a single chassis that has the same level of quality, availability, security and privacy as today's carrier-class circuit-switched voice systems. A first-of-class, all-optical, rate-independent backplane An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. technology provides scalability for all system sizes, enabling the system to evolve and adapt without the replacement of the entire unit as technology and customer needs change. About MetroCast Cablevision MetroCast Cablevision is a multi-system cable television operator serving close to 65,000 customers in New Hampshire and Maine. In addition to its standard cable television offering, the Company offers residential and business high-speed Internet See broadband. access service and more than 250 channels of digital and interactive services in its recently upgraded 860 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. systems. About Cedar Point Communications Cedar Point Communications is creating and commercializing the SAFARI C (Cubed)(TM) Media Switching System, an entirely new category of PacketCable(TM) based voice switching equipment tailored exclusively to the broadband cable operator's telephony and broadband media needs. SAFARI C (Cubed) is a totally integrated Carrier Class Cable ("C Cubed") telephony solution that is a cost-efficient, less complex alternative to current circuit switched and distributed softswitching cable telephony See cable telephone. options. The company was founded by telephony and data veterans, and has assembled an advisory board of cable and broadband communications experts. Cedar Point has received $19 million in funding from Charles River Charles River River, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. The longest river wholly in the state, it flows into Boston Bay after a course of about 80 mi (130 km). Navigable for about 7 mi (11 km), its estuary separates the cities of Boston and Cambridge. Ventures, Battery Ventures, Ascent Venture Partners and other investors. The company is based in Derry, N.H. For more information, please visit www.cedarpointcom.com. CableLabs(R) and PacketCable(TM) are trademarks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. |
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