MetaSwitch:Carrier-class softswitch and applications solutions

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METASWITCH CABLE SOLUTIONS

SMBs (Small & Medium Sized Businesses) make up the largest and fastest growing portion of the commercial telecom market.

- Alan Breznick, Senior Analyst for Heavy Reading

The potential for Cable providers to capitalize on recent technology trends in order to effectively compete for the business of enterprise customers has never been greater. For relatively low incremental cost, Cable providers can address this sizable market, supplementing their core video and data offerings with leading edge business telephony services, adding to their bottom line and increasing customer loyalty. In addition, serving this coveted market segment enables Cable operators to maximize their network efficiency, due to the time offset between residential (night time) and business (day time) peak usage.

MetaSwitch offers a comprehensive solution for Cable operators interested in quickly and effectively entering commercial and residential voice markets of any size, from a few hundred to millions of subscribers. Optimized for PacketCable 2.0/IMS, MetaSwitch readily interoperates with virtually any flavor of standards-based customer premise device. What's more, a single MetaSwitch platform is capable of combining Hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC) access with virtually any other access methodology, including fiber (FTTx), WiMAX, and leased T1s. This allows operators to make a consistent offering available over any combination of access networks.

By allowing enterprises to uniquely share bandwidth resources between voice video and data, Cable operators enter the commercial services market with a differentiated, cost-competitive service. Prioritized voice traffic insures that voice lines are available on demand, so that data users can enjoy bursts of higher speed whenever the prioritized voice traffic subsides. Cable providers can further benefit from up-selling incremental value-added services built on the widely deployed MetaSphere Application Suite. These include:

IP-PBX: PBX-style features without capital cost, including multiple sites and home worker remote extensions
IP-Trunking (PBX-Trunking): Connectivity for existing PBX including T1/PRI & SIP based platforms
Unified messaging
Music & corporate messaging on hold (configurable)
Meet me conferencing services
Auto attendant with dial-by-name directory
Call park / retrieve
Intercom
Basic ACD (hunt groups)
Do not disturb
Account codes (mandatory / optional / group / personal)

MetaSwitch technology will enable your business subscribers to enjoy an unparalleled service advantage. Invite us to show you how we've helped other Cable customers become a one-stop shop for business communications services.

Resources for Cable Operators

Learn how MetaSwitch has teamed with Cisco Systems to bring its award-winning softswitch solutions to cable providers:

Listen to Light Reading’s Cable Digital News webinar Cable to the SMB
Download our white paper COMPETE! The Cisco/MetaSwitch IP-Enabled Services Solution for Cable Operators

Further Information

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