MetaSwitch to Highlight Market Leadership with Canadian User Forum

Significant Turn-out for MetaSwitch Conference Reaffirms Softswitch Leader's Support for Canadian Telco Market

 

Alameda, CA: April 5, 2006. MetaSwitch, a leading vendor of next generation carrier switching and applications solutions, today announced that its Canadian customers will be the guests of honor at an interactive executive conference, MetaSwitch Forum 2006, scheduled for April 5 and 6 at the Doubletree International Plaza Hotel in Toronto, Ontario. More than 40 attendees from telecommunications firms across Canada are scheduled to attend to hear the latest news from MetaSwitch senior managers and share their success stories deploying new services with MetaSwitch.

One year after launching a high-profile Canadian customer and business expansion, MetaSwitch has gained rapid popularity in the Canadian telco market with more than 20 percent of independent telcos having already adopted the MetaSwitch softswitch solution. The user forum is designed to reaffirm MetaSwitch's support for and commitment to Canadian telcos and to provide a venue for customers to interact with high-ranking MetaSwitch executives. John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO, will keynote the user forum and much of the senior management team - including VPs of sales, marketing and support - will be on hand as well.

"With their proven success in North America, MetaSwitch was the clear choice for us a year ago, and they remain so today," said Ian Stevens, COO of Execulink Telecom and Past President of the Canadian Independent Telephone Association (CITA). "The fact that there is sufficient momentum here to host a user group meeting specifically focused on the needs of Canadian telcos speaks volumes for MetaSwitch's momentum North of the border, and is very reassuring for us as we look to the future."

"During the past year, MetaSwitch's support for TDM and VoIP services has allowed Nexicom to launch next-generation communications services to our DSL and cable customers," said John Downs, General Manager of Nexicom Systems Inc. "MetaSwitch's continued technology commitment to keeping ahead of the industry with a robust IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture, while keeping in mind carriers' need to drive business efficiencies, makes them a clear choice for Canadian service providers. We are pleased that MetaSwitch has backed up its commitment to its Canadian customers by hosting this event."

"Our very first customer was a Canadian telco, so we've been familiar with and committed to this market for many years. We recognized a real need among Canadian service providers for a full-featured, next-generation switching solution that would scale to meet the needs of carriers of all sizes, and we worked to fill that void," said Mike Ward, MetaSwitch senior vice president of sales. "We are very pleased with our rapid success in Canada and remain committed to this market as part of our North American growth strategy. As part of that commitment, we have established local sales presence and an Ottawa-based support center dedicated to serving the Canadian market."

About MetaSwitch

MetaSwitch (www.metaswitch.com) 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.