RCN Selects General Bandwidth for PacketCable Voice over IP Deployments in Chicago Market.AUSTIN, Texas -- General Bandwidth's PacketCable(TM) Qualified G6(R) VoIP Media Gateway Reduces RCN's Equipment Costs While Delivering Unmatched Voice Quality and Carrier Grade Performance General Bandwidth, a leading Voice over IP equipment manufacturer enabling rapid deployment and new service revenue generation over broadband networks  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. , announced today that RCN RCN n abbr (= Royal Canadian Navy) → kanadische Marine , a leading facilities-based competitive provider of bundled services, has deployed the General Bandwidth G6(R) VoIP Media Gateway in support of its Voice over IP (VoIP) service in its Chicago market. Recently certified by CableLabs(R) as a PacketCable(TM) qualified media gateway, the G6 VoIP Media Gateway is being deployed by leading cable operators like RCN seeking to deliver unmatched VoIP voice quality and greater than 99.999% service availability. Built upon a fully redundant, custom-designed architecture, the G6 platform provides RCN with a highly scalable access media gateway which significantly reduces the equipment costs associated with deploying voice services across their network. "RCN is committed to delivering high quality phone services as part of our bundled service offerings," said Rick Rioboli, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Product. "With the addition of General Bandwidth's carrier class gateways to our state-of-the-art network in Chicago, we now control the entire customer experience for our VoIP customers, giving our customers greater choice and values in telecommunications services." Customer response to RCN's new VoIP service has been terrific, with more than 1,000 customers to date and additions of more than 30 new customers per day. With the upgrade expected to be completed by the end of October, RCN's new VoIP service will be available to their entire Chicago footprint of approximately 300,000 homes which currently serves approximately 100,000 customers. "General Bandwidth is focused on delivering the highest quality VoIP solutions to leading bundled service providers like RCN who are seeking true carrier grade performance and high VoIP quality of service," said Brendon Mills, President 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 General Bandwidth. "We are pleased to be working with RCN as they begin to rollout VoIP services to their valued customer base." About RCN Corporation RCN Corporation, (NASDAQ: RCNI), founded in 1993 and based in Herndon, Virginia, is the first American facilities-based competitive provider of bundled telephone, cable television and high speed Internet service delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in RCN Corporation (Pink Sheets: RCNCQ) is the nation's first and largest facilities-based competitive provider of bundled phone, cable and high speed Internet services delivered over its own fiber-optic local network to consumers in the most densely populated markets in the U.S. RCN provides service in the Boston, New York Boston is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 7,897 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Boston, Massachusetts. The Town of Boston is an interior town of the county and one of the county's "Southtowns. , Eastern Pennsylvania, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles metropolitan markets. RCN also holds a 50% LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control membership interest in Starpower, which serves the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. About General Bandwidth General Bandwidth provides "Solutions for a VoIP World(TM)" with deployments across more than 41 domestic and international customers while enabling applications such as PacketCable(TM) cable telephony, VoIP Business Services, and SIP-based IP Centrex. General Bandwidth's flagship product, the PacketCable qualified G6(R) VoIP Media Gateway, delivers high quality, full-featured voice services over a wide variety of packet architectures, including hybrid fiber coax (networking) Hybrid Fiber Coax - (HFC) A kind of physical connection used in networks for audio, video, and data. DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) is used in Europe and DOCSIS is used in N America. (HFC 1. (networking) HFC - Hybrid Fiber Coax. 2. (hardware) HFC - hydrofluorocarbon. ), FTTP (Fiber To The Premises) The installation of optical fiber from the carrier directly into the home or office. Also called "fiber to the home" (FTTH). See PON and FTTC. See also FTP. , DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary , and T1. With the capability to simultaneously support voice services from next generation softswitches and Class 5 switches, the G6 platform is a highly scalable, fully redundant, and very flexible service migration platform from which new voice and media features can be deployed. www.genband.com Trademark notes: G6(R) and General Bandwidth(R) are registered trademarks of General Bandwidth Inc. CableLabs(R) and PacketCable(TM) are marks of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. |
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