Columbus Telephone Replaces Legacy Switches with CopperCom CSX in Rollout of All-Fiber Network.BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla. -- Rural Telco Chooses CopperCom in Campaign to "Help America Discover Columbus;" Initiative Furthers World-Class Telecom Infrastructure for Businesses in Area CopperCom today announced Columbus Telephone Company has replaced its legacy Class 5 switching system with CopperCom's next-generation Converged Switching eXchange (CSX CSX Chessie Seaboard Multiplier (railroad transportation company) CSX Cayman Islands Stock Exchange CSX Changsha, China (Airport Code) CSX Cardiac-Specific Homeobox CSX Seaboard Coastline Railroad )(R) as part of an end-to-end end-to-end a pattern of anastomosis in which severed ends are matched and united, in contrast with other patterns such as end-to-side or side-to-side. Usually applied to anastomosis of the intestine. upgrade of its rural Kansas communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. . Using the CopperCom CSX, Columbus is delivering bundled "triple-play" voice, data and video services via direct fiber connections to business and residential customers. A cooperative service provider that has been operating for a century, Columbus Telephone provides local, long distance and cable television services as well as Ethernet Ethernet Telecommunications networking protocol introduced by Xerox Corp. in 1979. It was developed as an inexpensive way of sending information quickly between office machines connected together in a single room or building, but it rapidly became a standard computer broadband Internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a over a completely fiber optic network to subscribers in Columbus, Kansas Columbus is the second largest city and county seat of Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, 15 miles south-southwest of Pittsburg, Kansas. In 1900, 2,310 people lived in Columbus; in 1910, 3,064 inhabitants existed. The population was 3,396 at the 2000 census. . Committed to doing its part to provide the best services to its current customers and to attract prospective employers to the area, the company embarked on a sweeping overhaul of its legacy infrastructure in 2004. By the end of 2004, Columbus Telephone was able to cut over live traffic to the new network and rolled out triple-play services of telephone, video and data, with a single bill for all three. The entire upgrade project will be completed by December 2005. With this end-to-end upgrade, Columbus Telephone is one of the first service providers in the nation delivering 100 percent of its service to its customers direct via fiber lines. The upgrade included a deployment of the CopperCom CSX next-generation switching solution, which will enable Columbus Telephone to deliver a full suite of advanced features. "We did an engineering review of softswitch vendors and determined that CopperCom not only had the best triple-play platform but the greatest long-term viability as a company," says General Manager Jim Dahmen "We're aggressively working to help attract new businesses to the Columbus area, and this investment in broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). provides yet another example of the advanced communications infrastructure available in Columbus. CopperCom has the right vision for our future and they've shown great commitment in following through." Mel Ethem, vice president, sales, CopperCom, credits Columbus for its aggressive investment in the community's future. "It's not often that a 100-year-old provider rebuilds its entire network all at once," says Ethem. "We're proud to have earned Columbus' confidence and be a part of their mission to 'help America discover Columbus'." The "Help American Discover Columbus" initiative is aimed at bringing new businesses to the Columbus area. In addition to its advanced communications infrastructure, the city offers to businesses an attractive mix of available workers, office and manufacturing space. About Columbus Telephone (www.columbus-ks.com) Columbus Telephone began serving rural areas of Kansas in 1905. A cooperative serving 3,400 subscribers in a two-square-mile area, the company will be among the nation's first to deliver communications services to all customers via fiber to the premise. Columbus provides local and long-distance 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. services with a full suite of features, as well as high-speed DSL-based Internet access See how to access the Internet. and cable television services. About CopperCom CopperCom, Inc. provides innovative, next-generation switching solutions for communications carriers. The company develops and delivers comprehensive solutions for carriers making the challenging transition to next-generation services or deploying leading-edge IP networks, from the ground up. The combination of CopperCom's technology and experienced management team make it the ideal partner for service providers seeking to flourish and expand in a competitive environment. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., CopperCom has been in the communications business for more than two decades. It is a subsidiary of The Heico Companies, an approximately $2.5 billion dollar diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s organization specializing in the management of sector-leading companies. Heico offers the corporate strength, resources and leadership necessary to support CopperCom customers in their move to next-generation services. Additional information can be found at http://www.coppercom.com. CopperCom is a trademark, and CSX a registered trademark of CopperCom, Inc. Forward-looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. : This press release contains statements that are forward-looking. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results could differ materially as a result of known and unknown risks and uncertainties. |
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