Taqua Names Telco and MSO Customers for its Class 5 Switch

The North-Eastern Pennsylvania Telephone Company has chosen Taqua's iX7000 next-generation Class 5 switch to replace its eight switch, DMS-10 network as part of a DSL-based triple play service. The telephone company needed to replace its existing Class 5 switches for numerous reasons, including GR303 requirements to work with its new NGDLC deployments.


Separately, Huntel Systems and Midcontinent Communications have each deployed Taqua's iX7000 to deliver Class 5 voice services as part of their HFC-based triple play service offerings. Huntel Systems provides a variety of communications services including cable television service in 19 rural Nebraska communities, local telephony in 14 communities across eastern and north-central Nebraska, and Internet access to some 4,600 customers in Nebraska and western Iowa. Huntel is using Taqua's iX7000 in Tekemah, Nebraska, where the company is undergoing its first CLEC initiative providing a triple play of voice, video, and broadband data. Midcontinent Communications has deployed Taqua's iX7000s in Aberdeen, South Dakota to provide the voice in its triple play offerings in the South Dakota cities of Aberdeen and Redfield. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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