Valley TeleCom: A Case Study

Valley TeleCom Group operates 13 exchanges in Arizona and New Mexico through its subsidiaries, Valley Telephone Cooperative and Copper Valley Telephone. In addition, its CLEC subsidiary, Valley Connections, is rapidly expanding.

The company decided to migrate its network to a packet-based softswitch in order to reduce the cost of network operations, and to prepare for growth in Voice-over IP (VoIP) and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) services. The project is expected to pay for itself within 18 months through network efficiencies, revenues from new services, and the avoidance of maintenance and upgrade fees on the decommissioned legacy switches.

Valley realized that, with the advent of next generation technologies, their aging and costly legacy switches had only a limited useful lifespan. Metaswitch was the only vendor that could actually support replacing their legacy switches while giving them the next-generation architecture and the enhanced services that they required for the future.

Within the Valley TeleCom network, the 15 new Metaswitches will eventually deliver voice services over an all-IP access network including Occam Networks broadband loop carriers and Wave7 FTTH equipment. To enable a smooth migration, the deployment plans included a transition period during which both TDM and VoIP access and trunking protocols are used.

If, like Valley TeleCom, you want to move to a next generation network - safely - then contact us today to find out more. To learn more about Valley TeleCom, visit www.vtc.net.