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General Telecom Signs Broadwing Communications to IPartition Service

Posted on: Monday, 7 March 2005, 09:00 CST

GOLDEN, Colo., March 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Today General Telecom, a leading provider of outsourced network solutions for carriers, announced that Broadwing Communications, LLC (Broadwing), a consolidated subsidiary of Broadwing Corporation has contracted to use General Telecom's IPartition IP-to-IP switching service.

Broadwing will utilize IPartition to support its Voice over IP (VoIP) services, including PRIorityConnect SIP. Part of Broadwing's converged network services portfoltio, PRIorityConnect SIP provides enterprise and carrier customers with a scalable, cost effective VoIP aggregation solution that leverages industry-standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) technology.

"Demand for a native SIP interface to Broadwing's powerful local service infrastructure continues to mount," said Mark Pugerude, senior vice president of Marketing and Business Development at Broadwing Communications. "IPartition provides a valuable assist in providing innovative solutions for our customers."

Randy Weinberger, General Telecom's vice president of Network Management Services stated, "Broadwing is a leader in providing VoIP services, and IPartition's ability to support SIP and H.323 protocols expands their competitive position in the market. General Telecom has a long history of delivering compelling services to Tier 1 and 2 carriers and we are very excited to provide this solution for Broadwing."

General Telecom's IPartition provides centralized IP routing and call control by means of Session Border Control technology. Advantages of IPartition include: 24-to-48 hour turn up; protocol and gateway interoperability; 24x7 NOC services; virtually no capital or labor costs; real-time reporting. IPartition is also available with optional address screening or 'topology hiding', whereby all of a carriers' customers signal to one IP address thus making interconnections private.

About Broadwing Corporation

Broadwing Corporation, through its consolidated subsidiary Broadwing Communications, LLC, delivers innovative data, voice, and media solutions to enterprises, service providers, and government entities. Enabled by its one- of-a-kind, all-optical network and award-winning products and services, Broadwing Communications provides the highest quality communications solutions with unparalleled customer focus and speed. Broadwing Corporation, via its Corvis Equipment Corporation subsidiary, also provides government agencies and service providers with advanced, scalable optical networking equipment designed to reduce the overall cost associated with building and operating optical networks. For more information, visit http://www.broadwing.com/.

Broadwing and its logo, MultiConnect and MultiConnect Redirect are trademarks and/or service marks of Broadwing Communications, LLC, and/or Broadwing Corporation. All trademarks and service marks not belonging to Broadwing are the property of their respective owners.

About General Telecom

General Telecom provides telephony solutions to carriers and service providers worldwide. Outsourced network management, network operations and VoIP services are delivered through the General Telecom brand and the brand of its parent - New Global Telecom (NGT). TDM-to-IP and IP-to-IP switching services, including VoIP Direct and IPartition services, are available for carriers from General Telecom. NGT's 6DegreesIP suite of managed wholesale VoIP products offers service providers a highly effective, turnkey solution to address residential and business end-user needs, including an extensive local and long-distance calling footprint, integrated retail OSS, worldwide conferencing capability, training and other support. Visit http://www.gentel.net/ or http://www.ngt.com/.

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General Telecom

CONTACT: Julie Buchanan of General Telecom, +1-303-239-1021,julie.buchanan@ngt.com

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

Web site: http://www.gentel.net/

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

Source: PRNewswire

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