GENBAND and Eastex Telephone Coop. announce the deployment of GENBAND’s industry-leading C15 Compact Softswitch to deliver communication services to Eastex’ residential and business subscribers across rural East Texas. GENBAND’s C15 equips Eastex to seamlessly migrate its legacy network and also helps to significantly reduce power and floor space requirements by up to 50 percent due to its innovative and compact design. In the future, the C15 will also help position Eastex to offer new VoIP and data services to subscribers.

To support Eastex’ large network expansion and modernization project, GENBAND is migrating over twenty Central Offices that include varying technologies, including legacy GENBAND DMS-10 and DMS-100, CopperCom and other third party equipment. GENBAND is also providing installation, commissioning and on-going Professional Services and GENBANDCare technical support capabilities.

GENBAND’s C15 second-generation carrier VoIP softswitch enables Eastex to offer advanced features such as directory number hunt, local number portability and end office or Access Tandem operation. According to recent reports from Infonetics, Synergy, and Dell’Oro, GENBAND is the #1 supplier in the global service provider VoIP market which includes softswitches, media gateways, session border controllers, media servers and application servers. In addition, according to Infonetics, GENBAND is the leading carrier IP softswitch supplier in North America, with more than 60% revenue share.