Big River Telephone, a locally owned telecommunications provider in the Missouri-Illinois-Kentucky region, has completed the hot cut-over of 1,000 trunks – a “heart transplant” of its network – in just 20 days after making the decision to purchase a MetaSwitch Class 5 softswitch. Big River is now carrying 30 million minutes of VoIP traffic per month through its MetaSwitch VP3500 Class 5 Softswitch. The MetaSwitch platform is serving over 4,000 lines and trunks, a number which is expected to increase as Big River uses the switch for new applications including VoIP over Cable, DSL and FTTH. The company was also recently one of the first to deploy Broadband over Power Line (BPL).
MetaSwitch said its key advantage it the ability to act as a “traditional” Class 5 switch with protocols such as SS7 and ISDN, while enabling a smooth migration to a next generation network architecture based on SIP, H.248 and MGCP. Big River is using the flexible feature server interface for an IP-based conferencing and voicemail system that was developed in-house. The company plans to build on that application with call management, follow-me, click-to-dial and other advanced capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed. http://www.metaswitch.com
