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Metaswitch Gives SureWest an Edge in Hosted VoIP
Leading Communications Provider Selects MetaSphere to Deliver Advanced Voice Applications to Business Customers
| Source: Metaswitch Networks
CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - October 21, 2009) - SUPERCOMM 2009 -- Metaswitch Networks, a
leading provider of carrier systems and communications software solutions,
today announced that SureWest Communications (NASDAQ : SURW ) has selected
the MetaSphere Application/Feature Server to provide advanced IP telephony
services for business customers. Delivered over SureWest's state-of-the-art
network, the new MetaSphere-based services are expected to provide
SureWest's business customers with increased communications efficiency,
productivity and flexibility, and an array of innovative telephony
applications.
One of the nation's largest, and most forward-thinking, integrated
communications providers, SureWest serves roughly 150,000 residential
subscribers and 15,700 business customers in the Kansas City and Sacramento
regions. In deploying MetaSphere, SureWest joins the growing number of
carriers who have chosen MetaSphere to deliver enhanced services that drive
competitive advantage in the hosted business services marketplace.
"We were tasked with coming up with the feature server platform in order to
offer hosted IP PBX and advanced business services," said Carl Murray,
Strategic Technologies Director for SureWest Communications, in a video
interview available at www.metaswitch.com/SureWest. "So we evaluated the
price, the features, the functionality and also the fit with SureWest --
how it fit in our long term plans. With that, MetaSphere came out on top."
To serve the critical business segment, which represents about a third of
its revenues today, SureWest needed a feature-rich, manageable and scalable
platform. MetaSphere delivers a suite of compelling value-added services
that includes unified messaging, auto-attendant, incoming call manager,
live message screening and intuitive Web-controlled voice conferencing.
"A key part of our expertise lies in delivering applications that can
generate real revenue for service providers and real benefits for their
customers," said Andrew Randall, senior vice president of marketing and
business development for Metaswitch. "SMBs are demanding hosted IP PBX
services to reduce their costs while also gaining immediate access to
compelling new applications."
Video Interview
Key SureWest decision-makers share more about their partnership with
Metaswitch in a video available for viewing at www.metaswitch.com/SureWest.
Metaswitch at SUPERCOMM
Metaswitch will be exhibiting at booth #1514 at SUPERCOMM09 in Chicago from
October 21st-23rd. John Lazar, CEO for Metaswitch will be speaking on
"Business Voice and Beyond," on October 21st at 2:15pm.
About SureWest Communications
SureWest Communications (www.surewest.com) is one of the nation's leading
integrated communications providers and is the bandwidth leader in the
markets it serves. Headquartered in Northern California for more than 95
years, the company expanded into the Kansas City region in February 2008
with the acquisition of Everest Broadband, Inc. and offers bundled
residential and commercial services that include IP-based digital and
high-definition television, high-speed Internet, Voice over IP, and local
and long distance telephone. SureWest was the nation's first provider to
launch residential HDTV over an IP network and offers one of the nation's
fastest symmetrical Internet services with speeds of up to 50 Mbps in each
direction on its fiber-to-the-home network.
About Metaswitch Networks
Metaswitch Networks is a leading provider of carrier systems and software
solutions that are powering the migration of communications networks to
open, packet-based architectures. Hundreds of network operators worldwide
depend on its Carrier Systems Division for reliable, scalable session
control, media gateway and application/feature server solutions to enable
compelling revenue-generating services. Its Network Protocols Division
develops high performance, portable software components that are integrated
into the products of the world's leading communications equipment
manufacturers. For more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com.
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