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Bécancour, Québec: February 12, 2007.
Télébec, Québec's leading regional telecommunications company, and MetaSwitch,
a leading vendor of next generation switching and applications solutions, today announced the initiation of
a joint project to bring digital telephony (also known as "digital voice", "voice over IP"
or "IP telephony"), to Télébec's customers. This strategic multi-year partnership
centers around infrastructure deployment enabling the launch of new services based on Télébec's
IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) architecture.
"Télébec is committed to delivering highly innovative IP-based services
to our business and residential customers," said Sylvie Couture, Télébec's chief technology officer.
"MetaSwitch is at the heart of this transition of our business. Thanks to their core technologies and
deployment experience, we will have the service options and flexibility we need to build customer loyalty
and stay ahead of potential competitors."
"Our commitment to Télébec is three fold: deliver leading-edge technology;
provide the industry's most comprehensive system integration support; and ensure they can deliver the services
they want to market quickly and cost effectively," added John Lazar, CEO of MetaSwitch.
In addition to being the lead equipment provider, MetaSwitch is providing a wide range of
professional services including systems integration and project management.
With the imminent addition of digital telephony to its service offerings, Télébec
is proving once more that it is a dynamic company, at the forefront of new technologies and responsive
to the ever growing needs of its valued customer base.
"Télébec's move to offer an innovative suite of IP services comes
at the right time as the market for advanced VoIP and other IP services heats up in Canada,"
said Jon Arnold, an independent analyst and president of Toronto-based J. Arnold and Associates.
"MetaSwitch clearly understand how to help innovative carriers successfully transition to an IP infrastructure
and this partnership with Télébec underscores their emergence as a Tier 1 vendor in the
softswitch and IMS space."
About Télébec, Société en commandite
With the strength of its 750 employees, Télébec, Société en commandite
and its subsidiaries offer integrated and innovative telecommunications solutions in 300 Québec
municipalities. Totaling 750,000 square kilometers, Télébec's territory is bounded to the north
by la Baie-James, to the south by Venise-en-Québec near the U.S. border, to the west by Ville-Marie
en Abitibi-Témiscamingue and to the east by the Magdalen Islands. More information about Télébec
and its subsidiaries is available at www.telebec.com.
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) switching
and applications solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its widely deployed call agent,
media/signaling gateway and application server platform supports a full range of legacy Class 4/5 capabilities
and hosted unified communications services, and scales from a few hundred to millions of subscribers
in both integrated and distributed configurations. Customers include incumbent and competitive
local exchange carriers, as well as operators of broadband wireless, cable and fiber networks.
MetaSwitch is a division of established telecom technology provider Data Connection. The company is
consistently profitable and privately held, with main US offices in California and Virginia,
and European headquarters in London, UK. For more information:
www.metaswitch.com.
Data Connection and MetaSwitch are trademarks of Data Connection Limited and
Data Connection Corporation. Brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks
of their respective holders.
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