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[June 15, 2005]

Caribbean Cable Selects Cedar Point's Safari Switch for Initial Voice Service Launch on Anguilla

DERRY, N.H., and ANGUILLA, B.W.I., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Cedar Point Communications, Inc., the leader in integrated packet-based voice switching technologies for the cable industry, and Caribbean Cable Communications today announced an agreement for the deployment of Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System for the delivery of cable telephony services. The initial rollout will start on the island of Anguilla and move to the other islands where Caribbean Cable has a footprint.
Under the agreement, Caribbean Cable initially will utilize SAFARI C(Cubed) to provide local and international calling services to business and hospitality subscribers on Anguilla. Expansion into residential markets and to business, hospitality and residential subscribers on additional islands where Caribbean Cable maintains a footprint will follow.
"As we bring consumer choice into the local telephony market, Cedar Point and SAFARI C(Cubed) will provide significant advantages to our subscribers and ourselves," said Lee Bertman, president of Caribbean Cable Communications. "SAFARI C(Cubed) has the scalability and the reliability that we need to deliver the high-quality services that will compete with existing telephone services, and it has been architected to support the business and residential call features that will help to differentiate our service."
"After a thorough evaluation of the leading vendors in the VoIP space we chose SAFARI C(Cubed) because it was the only platform that was truly ready to support international deployments by virtue of its support for multiple protocols," said Fred Davies, Corporate Chief Engineer for Caribbean Cable Communications.
"Caribbean Cable recognizes that their market entry will be particularly defined by quality, price and features," said George Kassas, founder and executive vice president, business development for Cedar Point Communications. "SAFARI C(Cubed)'s integrated design offers the simplicity, the cost- effectiveness and the versatility that Caribbean Cable needs to quickly and competitively provide voice alternatives to its subscribers."
SAFARI C(Cubed) is the only totally integrated carrier class VoIP switch that incorporates -- at no additional cost -- all of the components that make up the PacketCable(TM) voice switching infrastructure, eliminating the need for operators to purchase, maintain, upgrade and regression test separate Call Management Servers, Media Gateways, Record Keeping Servers, Announcement Servers, Signaling Gateways, Ethernet Switches and CALEA servers.
Designed to accommodate not only current voice switching needs but also the anticipated migration to video telephony and multimedia services, the PacketCable(TM)-qualified SAFARI C(Cubed) provides superior performance and reliability, significantly reducing capital expenditures, system integration and operations costs for cable operators offering telephony services while increasing network integrity, security and privacy.
About Caribbean Cable Communications
Caribbean Cable Communications is a system operator providing broadband services including Cable TV Services, High Speed Internet and soon to be launched, Local and Long Distance Telephone Services. Caribbean Cable Communications with HFC operations on the Caribbean islands of Anguilla, Nevis and Montserrat has been a leader in developing and deploying Leading Edge Convergent Technologies and Services in the Caribbean Region over the past 20 years. http://www.caribcable.com/
About Cedar Point Communications
Cedar Point Communications' totally integrated voice and multimedia switches provide cable system operators with cost-efficient, less complex voice-over-IP alternatives to distributed soft-switching cable telephony options. Cedar Point's SAFARI C(Cubed) Media Switching System is a PacketCable(TM)-qualified, Carrier Class Cable (C "Cubed") solution that supports legacy circuit and PacketCable(TM) voice services, as well as video telephony and non-traditional SIP-based devices. The company is based in Derry, NH. For more information, please visit http://www.cedarpointcom.com/.
PacketCable(TM) is a trademark of Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
Cedar Point Communications, Inc.


CONTACT: Paul Schneider, PSPR, Inc., +1-215-702-9784, pspr@att.net, forCedar Point Communications, Inc.


Web site: http://www.caribcable.com/
Web site: http://www.cedarpointcom.com/

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