Bresnan Chooses MetaSwitch for Business Services over Cable

Alameda, CA: October 25, 2006. MetaSwitch, a leading vendor of next-generation carrier switching and application solutions, announced today that Bresnan Communications, one of the country's leading cable operators, is deploying its softswitch, media gateway and application server products for business telephone services.

Bresnan currently serves approximately 300,000 customers in Utah, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, making it the 10th largest multiple systems operator (MSO) in the United States. Bresnan plans to leverage its cable infrastructure to offer carrier-class digital telephone services to business customers in early 2007. MetaSwitch's technology will allow Bresnan to provide a broad range of services, including Centrex, digital PBX trunks, and traditional telephone services to small and mid-sized business customers using hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) plant and multi-line embedded multimedia terminal adaptors (eMTAs).

"We have been looking for a flexible solution that could support a wide range of business telephone services and applications in our markets - PRIs, digital trunks, centrex services and traditional business line features - utilizing a combination of HFC, fiber and leased facilities. After fully evaluating all the softswitch vendors, we identified MetaSwitch as the best fit for our network based on a stellar reputation of customer support, features, scalability, and proven carrier-grade reliability," said Don Helms, director of operations at Bresnan.

"Cable operators are recognizing that business customers are a highly profitable source of new revenue," said Andrew Randall, vice president of marketing at MetaSwitch. "Bresnan is one of nearly 250 service providers who have turned to MetaSwitch for IP-based carrier voice solutions in both Telco and Cable environments."

"The Bresnan-MetaSwitch deal is important for the cable market, as it offers clear evidence both of MetaSwitch's entry into the cable space, and also of the increasing uptake of SIP-based solutions that foreshadow a migration to the PacketCable 2.0 specification," said Ronald Gruia, principal telecom analyst, at Frost & Sullivan. "The enterprise market is an attractive opportunity for the cable operators to tap on, hence it will represent the next battlefield between MSOs and the telcos."

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.

About Bresnan Communications

Bresnan Communications is a broadband telecommunications company founded by Bill Bresnan in 1984. The company serves more than 300,000 customers throughout Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Utah. Today, Bresnan offers advanced digital voice, video and high-speed Internet services including digital phone service, digital video recorder service, high-definition TV, video-on-demand and high-speed Internet service. The company also serves the business community through its Business Services and Advertising Sales divisions. More information about Bresnan is available at www.bresnan.com.