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Matanuska Telephone Association Selects MetaSwitch to Streamline Operations and Deliver Advanced Services
Second Largest U.S. Telephone Cooperative Will Leverage MetaSwitch Technology and Expertise to Enable Smooth Next-Generation Network Migration
| Source: MetaSwitch
QUEBEC CITY, QC--(Marketwire - July 15, 2008) - OPASTCO Summer Convention -- MetaSwitch, a
leading solutions and application provider, today announced that the
Matanuska Telephone Association (MTA), headquartered in Palmer, Alaska, has
purchased the MetaSwitch softswitch and MetaSphere application suite to
enable the delivery of traditional and next-generation telephony services.
Later this year, MTA will begin offering the MetaSwitch-powered services to
its 40,000 business and residential subscribers spread out over more than
10,000 square miles in South-Central Alaska. MTA plans to eventually
migrate its current legacy switching platform to a fully converged,
MetaSwitch-powered next-generation network to consolidate its resources,
helping to reduce its carbon footprint.
"For more than 55 years, MTA has invested in the highest quality, most
advanced products available in the industry," said Samantha McKibbin,
marketing product manager at MTA. "After evaluating a variety of vendors,
we chose MetaSwitch because of the company's reputation as a trusted
solutions provider and its extensive product and applications portfolio.
The quality of the MetaSwitch professional services and customer support
organization will be instrumental as we navigate our migration to a
next-generation network."
MTA will deploy the MetaSwitch distributed softswitch in its Palmer
headquarters to deliver both traditional and IP-based voice services to
end-users. After this roll-out, MTA plans to deploy additional MetaSwitch
softswitches in strategic locations to enable the delivery of services to a
broader customer base, as well as help combine offerings to customers that
have multiple business and residential locations.
By early 2009, MTA plans to transition its entire current voicemail
platform, to the MetaSphere voicemail platform in order to provide current
customers with access to advanced voicemail products and services. In
addition, MTA will deploy the MetaSphere application suite to enable the
quick delivery of an assortment of sophisticated services designed to help
MTA differentiate its product offerings.
"MetaSwitch understands that for rural carriers like MTA to be successful
in difficult geographic markets, they need to cost-effectively offer
higher-value services," said Jeff Lattomus, area vice president at
MetaSwitch. "Additionally, forward-thinking carriers are also looking for
ways to conserve environmental resources and reduce operational costs.
MetaSwitch remains committed to the continuous development of green
technologies that enable service providers to quickly deliver these
compelling,
revenue-generating services, while providing the foundation to transition
from legacy to next-generation environments in order to reduce operational
costs and conserve environmental resources."
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications
solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its MetaSphere
applications suite enables a broad set of hosted IP communications
services, while its core session control and media/signaling gateway
products support a full range of Class 4/5 softswitch capabilities. Customers
include many of the world's leading operators of wireline, wireless and
cable networks, with deployments that scale to millions of subscribers. For
more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com.
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