Santera Qualifies its Switch for Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Financing

Santera's SanteraOne switching platform is now eligible for low-interest financing from the Rural Utilities Service program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The program provides independent and rural utilities and telecommunications service providers with low-interest financing to assist them in the purchase of new equipment. The approval for RUS financing follows on-site equipment trial of the SanteraOne platform by the Kerman Telephone Co. of Kerman, California.


In addition, Santera introduced two new switching products: SanteraOne RS (available Q4), a next-generation switch with a smaller media gateway for independent and rural carriers; and SanteraOne ESA, an emergency backup softswitch that gives carriers with remote systems the ability to continue carrying traffic in cases of a fiber cut between the host and the remote systems. The SanteraOne RS provides the same features as the larger SanteraOne Class 5 switches, including AMA billing, local number portability (LNP), E911 and CALEA. Additional features include services such as call waiting, call blocking and last-number redial. Santera is a Tekelec company.
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