Jetstream Communications Inc. (www.jetstream.com) today announced it is providing voice over DSL equipment to Frontier Corp. (www.frontiercorp.com), a Citizens Communications Company (www.czn.com). Frontier is the first large incumbent to embrace VoDSL, according to Manish Gupta, Jetstream’s vice president of marketing.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Gupta says Jetstream will provide its CPX-1000 Broadband Voice Services Platform technology to Frontier for multiple markets and includes multiple gateways.
The first market to be targeted with the technology will be Rochester, N.Y., expected to be turned up in early fall. Monroe, La, and other markets will follow. Frontier operates in 10 states, serving both business and residential customers.
Voice over broadband solutions from Jetstream allow service providers to roll out bundled voice and high-speed data services – up to 24 phone lines, plus high-speed Internet access –over a single broadband connection.
According to consulting firm RHK Inc. (www.rhk.com), global shipments of voice-over-broadband (VoB) gateway equipment exceeded $28 million in the first half of 2001. Total revenue for the VoB gateway market was led by Jetstream with 30 percent market share. CopperCom Inc. (www.coppercom.com) came in second with 21 percent market share, according to RHK.
