One Communications: A Case Study
Mergers, Migrations, and Metaswitch - How One Communications Built its Next-Generation
Network
One Communications is the largest privately-held competitive local exchange carrier
in the U.S. serving more than 160,000 businesses throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic
and Upper Midwest regions with more than 2,200 employees and $800 million in annual
revenue.
Formed through the merger of three prominent CLECs, One Communications was tasked
with integrating its formerly independent network architectures. After rigorous
testing and evaluation, it selected Metaswitch as its common platform for integrated
voice and data communications and has begun migrating existing customers from thirty-three
legacy switches. To facilitate this, it contracted with Metaswitch Professional
Services to provide a variety of migration related services, including project management,
migration planning, tool development, translation services, engineering and troubleshooting
support. The Metaswitch distributed softswitch platform now supports a variety of
standalone and converged voice and data solutions for both its business and carrier
customers.
As a result of these efforts, One Communications is poised to experience substantial
switch center savings, a rapid ROI, and the ability to more efficiently serve a
growing array of converged voice and data to its customers, and deliver on its promise
to "Expect more from Onesm."
To learn more about One Communications, visit
www.onecommunications.com.