Sovernet Communications Partners with MetaSwitch to Provide Enhanced Telecommunications Services
Sovernet Communications Partners with MetaSwitch to Provide Enhanced Telecommunications Services
Bellows Falls, VT: April 2, 2008. Sovernet Communications today announced it has selected MetaSwitch as its primary telephone switch vendor, furthering its commitment to offering advanced and reliable telephone service to the residents and businesses of Northern New England. Sovernet has deployed a MetaSwitch VP3510 integrated softswitch in its fully redundant Burlington, VT data center.
"We continue with the commitment we have made to reinvest in our network infrastructure to better serve our customers. This partnership with MetaSwitch will create new products and features for our client base while also enhancing reliability and operational efficiencies," says Rich Kendall, president of Sovernet Communications.
The new investment creates a multitude of additional features and benefits for Sovernet's customers, including dynamic bandwidth allocation, unified messaging, fax server, auto attendant, conference calling and hosted business voice over IP services. The new switch will initially serve customers in Vermont and New Hampshire with additional expansion planned beyond Sovernet's existing markets.
About Sovernet Communications
Founded in 1995, Sovernet Communications is Vermont's first and largest locally operated statewide competitive provider of residential and business telephone and Internet services. Sovernet Communications is headquartered in Bellows Falls, with facilities in Burlington and Winooski and is committed to bringing excellent service and services to its customers and to supporting local communities. Sovernet Communications was the first Vermont carrier to offer residential customers a choice of measured or unlimited local telephone service, and the first to allow customers to create their own phone/Internet bundle discounts. For more information, please visit www.sover.net.
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its MetaSphere service delivery platform and applications suite enables a broad set of hosted IP communications services, while its core session control and media/signaling gateway products support a full range of Class 4/5 softswitch capabilities. 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.