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Satellite Communications Systems, Inc. Deploys Carrius Compleat(TM)-200 to Enable Low Cost Calling Services for U.S. Armed Forces; SCSI Reduces Calling Card Rates 84% at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay

Posted on: Tuesday, 8 November 2005, 09:00 CST

Carrius Technologies, Inc., an innovator in VoIP Service Delivery Gateways (SDGs), announced today that Satellite Communications Systems, Inc. (SCSI) has deployed the Carrius Compleat-200 Service Delivery Gateway as part of the implementation of its new contract to provide prepaid long distance and all other non-classified communications services for United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (GTMO).

As part of an ongoing program to improve the quality of life for residents and visitors to GTMO, the U.S. government issued a request for proposals to operate the base's non-classified communications services, with one goal being the reduction of long distance telephone costs. SCSI needed the latest communications service delivery equipment to compete for the contract that the incumbent had held since 1975. "Carrius' Service Delivery Gateway was the ideal product for us to economically provide services across the base's combination of legacy and new IP networks, and leverage our IP-based satellite network for connectivity to the mainland," said Ernie Hux, vice president of SCSI.

SCSI's winning bid reduced the per-minute rate of prepaid long distance calling cards by nearly 84%. In addition to over 8,000 permanent residents, GTMO hosts many visiting naval and coast guard vessels, and their crews. To accommodate the permanent residents and visitors, SCSI maintains a call shop with a large phone bank for those without permanent phone service to use to make prepaid long distance calls. Service members and their families may purchase prepaid calling cards at a number of locations across the base. The cards are usable for inbound or outbound calls to the base and are available to remote friends and family for low cost calling into the base. In addition to prepaid calling, SCSI's network provides wireless, wireline and broadband and dialup Internet access services for the base.

"We are proud to work with an innovative provider like Satellite Communications to help them provide superior cost-effective services and improve the quality of life for our men and women in uniform and their families," stated Allen Adams, CEO of Carrius.

About Satellite Communications Systems Inc.

Satellite Communication Systems, Inc. (SCSI) is a rapidly growing facilities-based international telecommunications carrier. SCSI provides telecommunications services by satellite between the United States and the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe and Africa. Through strategic alliances with overseas local exchange carriers in countries with limited telecommunications facilities, SCSI supplies high quality and competitively priced services. For more information, see www.sat-tel.com.

About Carrius Technologies, Inc.

Carrius Technologies advances fixed and mobile convergence with the industry's first carrier-grade Service Delivery Gateway (SDG) for the converged IP network services market. The Compleat-200 SDG enables universal delivery of legacy and new services across all network types through an unmatched combination of network signaling translation and interfaces for application control. Both solution developers and service providers can improve ROI by leveraging the Compleat-200 to accelerate service delivery and capture more market share. As an enhanced services platform controlled through SIP, CCXML/VoiceXML or the Carrius API, Compleat allows solution developers to focus on differentiating their services while it manages telephony functions. Service providers can also deploy Compleat SDGs directly into their networks to offer differentiated services. For more information, please visit www.carriustech.com.

Source: Business Wire

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