Charter Communications Inc. has selected the Motorola Broadband Services Router (BSR) 64000 to roll out VoIP services and high-speed data services.
"Motorola's BSR 64000 provides the redundancy, PacketCable support and DOCSIS 2.0 support that Charter requires for this strategic Voice over IP service deployment," says Wayne Davis, senior vice president of engineering and technical operations at Charter.
As will be reported in the February issue of XCHANGE, Charter is offering primary line VoIP service in Wausau, Wisc., to approximately 2,000 residential customers. That’s in addition to the approximately 23,500 TDM customers representing 31,000 lines on a Class 5 switch in metropolitan St Louis.
Charter previously tapped ARRIS to provide it with cable modem termination system and network interface unit gear and Nortel to supply gateways and switches for the Wausau VoIP deployment.
The company’s plan is to expand VoIP to several other Wisconsin communities and launch two additional VoIP markets in 2004 and to have VoIP in its top eight to 10 markets within the next several years. The company has not disclosed where it plans to use the BSRs.
The company says its package of VoIP-based local and distance services are about 15 percent less expensive than what the ILEC offers.
Charter tells XCHANGE that it currently manages several outsource relationships for some VoIP back office/support services, but would not specify for what or from whom.
