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IT&E Goes Deep With MetaSwitch Solutions to Provide Guam With First Competitive Residential Telephone Services
| Source: MetaSwitch
HONOLULU, HI--(Marketwire - January 14, 2008) - MetaSwitch today announced at the Pacific
Telecommunications Council, PTC '08, that IT&E, a leading Pacific islands
carrier, has leveraged MetaSwitch's core switching and applications
solutions to offer competitive residential phone service sold through the
island's cable operator, MCV Broadband. The white label solution was
recently deployed after rigorous but rapid end-to-end testing, and
currently counts more than 1,000 customers installed.
"For service providers in emerging markets like Guam, achieving competitive
advantage is based on developing an efficient network capable of delivering
a broad range of service offerings," said Andrew Randall, vice president of
marketing at MetaSwitch. "IT&E has chosen to use MetaSwitch solutions as
the 'hub' of its next-generation infrastructure, allowing the company to
continuously expand its customer base by leveraging the best technology to
quickly and cost effectively deliver new services."
MetaSwitch's core switching technology, combined with the MetaSphere suite
of applications, enables IT&E to supply MCV Broadband with a robust feature
set including: Find-Me/Follow Me, simultaneous ringing services and Unified
Messaging, allowing subscribers access to voicemail, e-mail and fax
messages through any e-mail program or web browser. The offer also includes
local service and either measured rate or unlimited long distance at
pricing around 30 percent less than incumbents.
IT&E, a 28-year-old carrier serving the 212-square mile U.S. territory in
the Marianas island chain, initially deployed MetaSwitch technology to
build on its history as a successful provider of long distance, PCS
wireless and internet services to an existing customer base, including a
thriving tourist industry. With MetaSwitch's support for access deployment
and next-generation capabilities, IT&E transitioned to a competitive local
exchange carrier (CLEC) and began to offer advanced IP-based business
services such as conferencing and music-on-hold to its business customers
and unified messaging to its residential customers through its partnership
with MCV Broadband. These new capabilities allow IT&E to provide bundled
services, becoming a full "one-stop" provider, and provide the necessary
tools to evaluate rolling out new services over technologies like WiMax.
"In MetaSwitch, we really found a vendor that can 'do it all' -- toll
tandem, class 4 and class 5 offices -- while meeting our requirements to
support local number portability (LNP) and CALEA," said John Borlas,
president of IT&E. "The MetaSwitch team worked extensively to ensure that
we could turn our ideas into actual product offerings and MetaSwitch's
commitment to its product has been central to our success so far. They've
consistently delivered a quality of service and dedication to support that
is among the best I've encountered in my 30-plus years in this industry."
A new case study featuring IT&E, "Growing with Guam: How IT&E Optimized its
Network and Brought Real Telecom Competition to Guam," is available at the
MetaSwitch Booth, Booth 24, as well as on the MetaSwitch website,
www.metaswitch.com.
Anthony Marcello, director of IOC operations for MetaSwitch, will be a
featured speaker on the topic, "From Open Standards to Open Source:
Telecom's Migration to Open Architectures and Grass Roots Driven Design,"
on January 14, from 3:30-5:00 HST, at the PTC Pavilion in the Hilton
Hawaiian Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu.
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications
solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its widely
deployed core session control and media/signaling gateway products support
a full range of Class 4/5 capabilities, while its MetaSphere service delivery platform and
applications suite enables a broad set of hosted IP communications
services. 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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