Midvale Telephone Exchange has chosen Taqua¡¯s T7000 Switching System (T7000) to replace seven Class 5 switches and enable advanced IP-based services, the vendor announced today.
The 98-year-old telco,which offers services in Arizona, Idaho, Oregon and Washington state, bought its first T7000 in 2006 to replace the first of its eight legacy switches. Now it¡¯s replacing the remaining Class 5s with the new gear, which includes SIP-based interfaces for advanced service delivery and VoIP.
¡°Our first T7000 has proven to be a very cost-effective and reliable Class 5 replacement switch. As a result, we are committing additional network build-outs to Taqua as well,¡± said John Stuart, operations manager of Midvale Telephone Exchange. ¡°By adding PIC cards to all the systems and centralizing an application server, we are able to very cost-effectively provide advanced voice mail and unified messaging for all our subscribers while enabling us to market advanced IP-based services anywhere across our entire network.¡±
The customer isusing a unique feature within the T7000 in which an IP card is added to make it look like an IAD to a centralized application server sitting in one of the central offices, explained Frederick Reynolds, Taqua¡¯s vice president of marketing. This allows Midvale to provide voice mail across all the switches ¨Cwhether they are TDM or IP. It also allows Midvale to market IP Centrex and hosted PBX features to select business and high-end SOHO customers that are located around each of the switches. And, if there is a loss of communications to the application server, the T7000 provides full Class 5 telephony services so there is no loss of communications to the subscriber.