MetaSwitch Solutions Arm Cable Operators in the Battle for Business Voice Services

WASHINGTON, DC, Apr 01 (MARKET WIRE) --
The Cable Show -- MetaSwitch, the leader in reliable, high-quality IP
communications platforms and services, today announced that Wave
Broadband and Astound Broadband are leveraging MetaSwitch's award-winning
technology to deliver advanced telephony services to small and medium
businesses. In addition, MetaSwitch customer Bresnan Communications has
achieved key milestones with the introduction of more sophisticated
commercial services, which has led to winning larger business customers.

Wave Broadband and Astound Broadband, owned by WaveDivision Holdings,
LLC, serve more than 140,000 basic video subscribers. The companies offer
cable, internet and phone services, and have purchased and deployed
MetaSwitch media gateways and feature server products to serve commercial
subscribers in Western Washington State, Oregon and Northern California.

Astound Broadband replaced its legacy Alcatel-Lucent switch with
MetaSwitch and successfully migrated over 17,000 San Francisco Bay Area
subscribers to MetaSwitch. Next, the company is deploying the MetaSphere
application suite, including unified messaging and auto-attendant using a
combination of HFC, fiber and copper for the last mile. "MetaSwitch's
robust, flexible solution allows us to support our existing customers
while also delivering an ever expanding suite of differentiating new
services," explained Steve Friedman, chief operating officer,
WaveDivision Holdings, LLC. "This flexibility was a deciding factor in
our decision."

Bresnan Communications, with over 300,000 basic video subscribers, has
worked extensively with MetaSwitch to build a flexible, scalable
next-generation switching and applications platform. Using a phased
approach to product introduction, Bresnan has been able to successfully
transition from offering basic telephony services to delivering advanced
services like Hosted PBX to business customers.

Bresnan's Business Services Division recently inked a deal with the
Montana-based Billings Public Schools Trustee, which serves 15,500
students, to provide an IP Hosted phone service to all Billings public
schools. Since the entire system is hosted, Billings School District has
eliminated the need to invest in, own and maintain costly premises-based
equipment, helping to reduce capital expenditures, a major benefit in
today's economic climate.

"Bresnan Communications has used the Metaswitch platform to expand and
enhance services to businesses across our footprint. We use their
technology to offer lucrative services like Hosted PBX to our portfolio of
large enterprise customers including hospitals and public school systems,"
said Don Helms, vice president at Bresnan Communications. "MetaSwitch
supports our deployment of these expanded services not only with its
platform and feature set, but their customer support and training has been
everything we had expected as we continue to become the provider of choice
for business across the Rockies."

"MetaSwitch continues to help power mid-tier MSOs with their entry into
the business services market," stated Mike Ward, senior vice president at
MetaSwitch. "With MetaSwitch in place, these dynamic operators will be
able to continue to offer compelling, revenue-generating services to
business customers of all sizes, helping fuel expansion in the commercial
segment. MetaSwitch services are a great fit for cable operators who are
also the perfect target for broadband stimulus funding."

About MetaSwitch

MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications
solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its MetaSphere
applications suite enables a broad set of hosted IP communications
services, while its core session control and media/signaling gateway
products support a full range of Class 4/5 switching capabilities.
Customers include many of the world's leading operators of wireline,
wireless and cable networks, with deployments that scale to millions of
subscribers. For more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com.

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Copyright Copyright 2009 Data Connection Limited.

Contact:
Carol Daniels
MetaSwitch
+1 (510) 589-5074
chd@metaswitch.com

Elizabeth Miller
Connect2 Communications
+1 (847) 223-2653
elizabeth@connect2comm.com

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