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J.C. Murphy Joins Cedar Point Communications As Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Posted on: Monday, 22 October 2007, 09:00 CDT

DERRY, N.H., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedar Point Communications, a leader in integrated VoIP switching solutions for the service provider and enterprise industries, announced today that it has selected John Murphy, a leading telecommunications industry executive, as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales.

Murphy, who has held senior level sales, operations and engineering management positions at established and startup companies, joins Cedar Point from Cantata Technology. At Cedar Point, he will be responsible for growing the company's base of cable, telco, enterprise and WiMAX customers in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe, and for shaping the company's entry into Asia and other new markets.

"The ability of our SAFARI C(Cubed) Multimedia Switching System to enable the simple, cost-effective and scalable delivery of VoIP services has helped Cedar Point gain immediate traction in a variety of markets," said Andy Paff, president and CEO of Cedar Point Communications. "J.C. Murphy has the international and domestic expertise that will help us to take those successes to the next level."

"Time is money for network operators seeking to provide converged voice and data services," said Murphy. "Operators I have spoken with recognize that by integrating all of the elements of the VoIP switching architecture into SAFARI C(Cubed), Cedar Point is enabling the rapid launch of telephony services without the need for costly and complex system integration."

From 1998-2000, Murphy held a variety of positions with Excel Switching, including vice president, global sales and general manager, open network platform division. Following the acquisition in 2000 of Excel by Lucent Technologies, he served as general manager/vice president of the softswitch solutions division until 2003, where he led the internal effort to return Excel Switching to a separate corporation.

As president of Excel Switching Corporation from 2003-2005, Murphy played a key role in the acquisition of Brooktrout Technologies by EAS Group, Inc., parent company of Excel, and the creation of Cantata as a combined Brooktrout- Excel entity. He was named New England Telecommunications Executive of the Year by Mass High Tech in 2006 for his accomplishments as president of Cantata.

Prior to joining Excel Switching, Murphy held several sales positions with ADC Telecommunications. He also spent four years as an officer in the United States Coast Guard.

Murphy holds B.S. degrees in Government and Engineering from the United States Coast Guard Academy.

About Cedar Point Communications

Cedar Point Communications' totally integrated switching platforms enable the scalable, cost-effective, less complex delivery of VoIP and multimedia for cable, telco, enterprise and WiMAX network operators. Designed to provide carrier-class performance and reliability, while increasing network integrity, security and privacy, Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Multimedia Switching System is a PacketCable(TM)-qualified solution that supports legacy circuit, NCS and SIP-based voice services, as well as delivering core IMS capabilities. The company is based in Derry, NH. For more information, please visit http://www.cedarpointcom.com/.

PacketCable(TM) is a trademark of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Cedar Point Communications

CONTACT: Paul Schneider of PSPR, Inc. for Cedar Point Communications,+1-215-702-9784, +1-215-817-4384 (Mobile), pspr@att.net

Web site: http://www.cedarpointcom.com/

Source: PRNewswire

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