Birch Communications Passes One Billion Minutes of Voice Traffic over the Birch IP Network
Birch IP Network experiences 4% increase in VoIP traffic over prior year in spite of economic downturn.
Atlanta, GA – June 30, 2009 - Birch Communications, a leading provider of business telecom services in the United States, announced today that the company has reached the one billion minutes of voice traffic milestone carried over its state-of-the-art Birch IP Network.
Birch Communications provides affordable voice and broadband communications services to businesses in 31 states, and owns and operates the Birch IP Network which serves markets in Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi and Texas. The Birch IP Network uses secure, private IP and softswitch technology enabling Birch to offer its customers a wide array of local voice and high speed Internet services, including DSL, ADSL 2+ and T-1 services at very affordable prices.
"Birch Communications provides businesses with secure, reliable communications services, and our Birch IP Network has now matured to the point where we have reached this wonderful milestone - One Billion Voice Minutes served” says Chris Aversano, Birch SVP & COO. "We celebrate this major milestone with more than 100,000 customers that trust Birch Communications as their high-quality, time-tested, premier alternative for communications services.”
“At a billion voice minutes served and growing, demand for Birch service continues to be strong, especially in this declining economy. Our customers recognize that you can achieve significant savings with superior service from Birch,” says Vincent M. Oddo, Birch president and CEO. “The growth and expansion of the Birch IP Network will continue with our previously announced acquisition of Cleartel Communication assets. With this acquisition, we’re expanding the Birch IP Network into Florida and adding more than 100,000 access lines.”
“We bring the best-in-class technologies together from a variety of market leading vendors,” explains Tom Stachowiak, Birch vice president of engineering. “Companies like MetaSwitch and Occam Networks partner together with Birch to deliver a state-of-the-art, efficient, low cost, high performance network.”
The telecommunications vendor community agrees.
“This is a tremendous achievement for Birch Communications,” says David Ashby, vice president at MetaSwitch. “We are proud that Birch, one of the most dynamic competitive communications providers in the country, trusts MetaSwitch as the reliable foundation of its network and business growth.”
“I’m proud Occam has helped enable the success of the Birch Digital Network,” says Bob Howard-Anderson, president and CEO of Occam Networks. “We’re committed to continue to provide the broadband technology that will expand the Birch Digital Network to even more businesses quickly and cost effectively.”
About Birch Communications
Headquartered in Atlanta GA, Birch Communications is one of the largest competitive local exchange carriers in its 31-state Southeast, Southwest and Midwest regions serving small- and medium-sized business customers. Birch was the first in its class to deploy its own private IP network utilizing soft switch technology to deliver innovative, high quality, affordable voice and broadband communications services to small and medium sized business customers. Please visit www.birch.com for more information.
Contact:
Greg Corwin, Marketing Director
greg.corwin@birch.com
816.300.1686
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 softswitch 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.
About Occam Networks, Inc.
Occam Networks Inc. develops and markets innovative Broadband Loop Carrier networking equipment that enables telephone companies to deliver voice, data and video services. Based on Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP) technologies, Occam's equipment allows telecommunications service providers to profitably deliver traditional phone services, as well as advanced voice-over-IP, residential and business broadband, and digital television services through a single, all-packet access network. Occam is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif. Additional information can be found at www.occamnetworks.com.