PaeTec Communications Selects Lucent to Build $100 Million Network
[Can someone offer up any additional information on this company? Who, what, when, where? PaeTec's web site is still under construction.
Their plans to use the VoIP capabilities inherent in the LU 5ESS Anymedia platform is noteworthy, IMO.
Thanks, and Regards, Frank C.]
September 21, 1998
FAIRPORT, N.Y., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ via NewsEdge Corporation -- PaeTec
Communications Inc., a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), has selected
Lucent Technologies to achieve PaeTec's vision of being the most
customer-oriented telecommunications provider in the country. PaeTec has
signed a $100 million, five-year contract for a minimum of 16 Lucent 5ESS(R)
AnyMedia(TM) switches.
Unlike most CLECs, PaeTec plans to focus on markets with high volumes of
international traffic. Utilizing the latest technological advances from Lucent,
PaeTec's national network footprint will be able to serve 50 percent of the US
population that generates over 70 percent of all international traffic. PaeTec's
initial eight (8) switching centers, scheduled to be in service in 1999, will allow
for operations in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Florida and California.
PaeTec also will deploy Lucent's Switching Control Point (SCP) platform to
provide advanced local and long-distance services, local number portability,
and emerging data and Internet telephony.
"We are working with Lucent to build a network that will answer our
customers' demands for communications services based on 'next generation,
cutting-edge' technology in the telecommunications industry," said Arunas
Chesonis, chairman and CEO of PaeTec. "There is tremendous growth
potential in the local market, and we are excited about the forecasted growth in
the international long-distance market. Deploying Lucent's AnyMedia switch
for our international traffic is a very cost-effective way to service our
customers."
"We're delighted to be supporting PaeTec as it enters new competitive
markets," said Nina Aversano, president of Global Commercial Markets at
Lucent. "The 5ESS AnyMedia switch platform that PaeTec is using is an ideal
economic model and technology choice for PaeTec to quickly develop and
deploy key differentiating services to its customers today and well into the
future."
PaeTec, currently a privately held, switch-based competitive local exchange
company, is planning on raising in excess of $300 million over the next several
years to achieve its business plan. The company was founded in 1998 and has
its headquarters in Fairport, N.Y. It provides advanced telecommunications
services to large and medium-sized businesses.
Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, N.J., designs, builds and
delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems
and software, data networking solutions, business telephone systems and
microelectronics. Bell Laboratories is Lucent's research and development arm.
SOURCE PaeTec Communications
/CONTACT: Richard Ottalagana, executive vice president of PaeTec,
716-340-2510/
/Web site: lucent.com
/Web site: paetec.com
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