Cablevision Selects Siemens for Cable VoIP Solution

Cablevision, which serves 3 million households located in the New York metropolitan area, selected Siemens’ SURPASS platform to support its new “Optimum Voice” IP telephony service. Cablevision aims to begin deployment of a true voice-over-cable, IP-based solution over its HFC network. The Siemens’ solution consists of the SURPASS hiQ softswitch as a call management server, the SURPASS hiG trunking gateway, and the SURPASS media server, all of which are compliant with CableLabs’ PacketCable standard. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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