Wyoming's TCT West, a division of Tri County Telephone, will introduce VoIP services using MetaSwitch's VP3500 Series Class 5 Softswitch platform. The move follows the company's decision to deploy MetaSwitch to serve its existing 8,000 subscribers. TCT West will initially be deploying services including IP Centrex, both to meet customer demand in-region and to expand into other markets. The carrier also plans to take advantage of the increasing availability of SIP interfaces from incumbent and alternative interexchange carriers (IXCs) to reduce long distance trunking costs, as well as leveraging the flexibility of SIP-based application servers. In addition to significant cost savings, TCT West expects the adoption of VoIP to double its subscriber base to 16,000 over the next few years. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.metaswitch.comhttp://www.tctwest.net
- Metaswitch's VP3500's provides built-in support for CALEA and delivers more than 100 features, including residential and business group services, over both circuit and packet-based networks. In addition, MetaSwitch's media gateway design combines TDM and packet processing onto a single card, scaling from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
