MetaSwitch Extends Its Success to the CALA Region

Caribbean and Latin American Service Providers Set to Benefit as Softswitch Technology Leader Ramps up Efforts

 

Alameda, Calif., March 27, 2007. MetaSwitch, a leading vendor of next-generation carrier switching and application solutions, today announced product initiatives that further demonstrate its commitment to the Caribbean and the Latin American telecommunications market. To extend MetaSwitch's success in North America into additional markets, MetaSwitch has adapted its widely deployed VoIP technology to the ETSI standards used by service providers in the CALA region. This capability provides service providers who seek to roll out next generation telecommunications services with a highly-reliable, field-proven, voice switching platform designed to work in their local environment.

MetaSwitch also announced two new customers in the region: WorldNet Telecommunications (WorldNet), one of the top three service providers in Puerto Rico; and Tricom, a triple-play service provider in the Dominican Republic.

WorldNet, one of Puerto Rico's fastest-growing Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLEC), has built a state-of-the-art Next Generation Network fully capable of delivering advanced voice and data services to the business and residential market. From its central office (CO) in Guaynabo, WorldNet provides a highly competitive alternative service offering to the Puerto Rican Market, delivering services over a variety of means, including among others fiber, wireless broadband, and copper Unbundled Network Element (UNE) leased from the incumbent local exchange provider (ILEC). Advanced IP services have been growing at 100 percent over the past year and WorldNet plans to leverage the advanced IMS capabilities of MetaSwitch's platforms to speed time-to-market with more advanced IP communications services.

"MetaSwitch has provided us with a superb single-vendor solution for advanced voice switching along with advanced features such as Unified Messaging and Find Me Follow Me services for our customers," said David Bogaty, WorldNet Chairman of the Board. "We have been extremely happy with the MetaSwitch solution and their customer support levels as we continue our facility-based customer migrations."

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.