Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Western Iowa Telephone Deploys MetaSwitch

The Western Iowa Telephone Association has selected the MetaSwitch VP3500 to augment and eventually replace its existing legacy switches in eight exchanges serving residential and business customers in western Iowa. The MetaSwitch VP3500 is a next generation class 5 switch that offers support for VoIP, VoATM and GR-303, as well as advanced Web-based subscriber services. The platform scales from 400 to over 250,000 subscribers in a single rack. Vantage Point Solutions, Inc., a telecommunications engineering and consulting firm, provided engineering services for the Western Iowa Telephone project. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.metaswitch.com