Service Providers Turning to Brocade to Power Business and Consumer Multi-play

Service providers of every size and type are choosing Brocade (News - Alert)® (Nasdaq:BRCD) solutions to develop networks that deliver increasingly advanced combinations of voice, data, video and mobility (quad-play) services to businesses and consumers. These providers list reliability, low total cost of ownership (TCO) and a collaborative relationship as fundamental reasons for working with Brocade as their network provider of choice.

Two such service providers, Veracity and Home Telephone, have deployed reliable, high-performance Brocade-based networks that are delivering compelling ROI and enabling the service providers to differentiate their offerings for a strategic business advantage.

Veracity is a Provo, Ut.-based provider serving approximately 7,000 residential customers with triple-play voice, video and data services and 50 percent of Provo's businesses with managed voice over IP (VoIP) services. With an ever-changing population (averaging 140,000 residents) due to the transient population of three local colleges, and with some of the largest call centers in the western half of the United States as customers, Veracity must provide the highest levels of stability and flexibility. As a result, the company turned to Brocade to build a highly reliable network infrastructure to deliver Veracity's service offerings.

Home Telephone, which offers quad-play services to approximately 23,000 consumer and business customers in Berkeley County, S.C., decided to switch from Cisco (News - Alert) to Brocade solutions when migrating from a SONET network to a converged IP network. Business and technical opportunities and challenges were multiplied when the company acquired Daniel Island Media in 2004. The first fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) provider east of the Mississippi, Daniel Island Media had been providing fiber to the home to area residents since 2000.

The company deployed NetIron MLX Series routers at the core of its network, with Brocade FastIron® GS Series switches deployed broadly to facilitate the ever-increasing capacity needs of quad-play network and to provide critical monitoring and reporting data. The advanced multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) functionality of the Brocade solutions has significantly reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) for Home Telephone, while helping to ensure customer satisfaction, especially with large business customers.

"It wasn't that long ago that we were doing VLANs and trunking across the network," said Gil Dupree, head of the data networks division for Home Telephone. "Today, we're using MPLS. The end customer sees better uptime and throughput, and our partners are able to effortlessly turn up multiple VLANs on their networks. We don't have to go back and reconfigure our network every time. The back office functionality we get with the Brocade gear really makes a quantifiable difference in terms of cost and management."

Home Telephone is working closely with local governments and Google (News - Alert), which recently built a large data center in the area, to make nearby Monck's Corner one of the first test sites for Google Fiber, the giant's own FTTP network. For more information, visit www.makeitmonckscorner.com/.

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