Citizens Fiber of Pennsylvania has selected a suite of Metaswitch software switches and applications as the basis for its network upgrade to all-IP. Citizens Fiber is an Internet, cable and telephone service provider located in Westmoreland County, PA. Founded in 1906, Citizens' services include gigabit Internet and IPTV over an all-fiber network.

"These software solutions from Metaswitch enable us to modernize our infrastructure, moving us from legacy switching to virtualized network functions as the basis of our voice over IP offerings," said Zach Cutrell, director of operations at Citizens. "This approach ensures flexibility and scalability over time, and will allow us to introduce new services more quickly as our customer base continues to grow. Metaswitch is also supporting our go-to-market efforts, which will significantly reduce our time-to-revenue."

Citizens is deploying a number of network functions from Metaswitch, including softswitches, application servers and session border controllers (SBCs). All consumer endpoints will ultimately connect to an IP core. Citizens is also using Metaswitch's unified communications (UC) and collaboration applications to deliver new services to its business customers.