The agreement calls for Plymouth State to deploy SAFARI C(Cubed) to a pilot group of faculty, administration and students, as part of a comprehensive evaluation of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies. SAFARI C(Cubed)'s unique architecture will enable Plymouth State to support SIP-based residential devices in dormitories and TDM and VoIP applications for University offices.

The trial is the second deployment by Cedar Point in the campus and enterprise VoIP market. Last year, the company successfully conducted a trial with the University of Massachusetts -- Amherst. Subsequent plans are being developed to commercially scale this deployment.

"Plymouth State is evaluating new technologies as part of a larger communication strategy, particularly with changing communication habits of students. Today's students are networked, but no longer over our traditional phone lines. We need flexible platforms that can support voice, mobile and video telephony, the tools that they use," said Dwight Fischer, Chief Information Officer of Plymouth State University. "We've partnered with Cedar Point. They have a proven track record in the VoIP technology, they understand the demands of communication on a higher ed campus, and they have what we feel is a unique, forward-engineered architectural approach that compelled us to try SAFARI C(Cubed)."

"The same attributes that have made SAFARI C(Cubed) highly successful in the cable industry -- simplicity, cost-effectiveness, scalability and innovative engineering -- are being sought today in the campus and enterprise market," said George Kassas, founder and executive vice president, business development for Cedar Point Communications. "Forward-thinking institutions like Plymouth State are recognizing that the availability of comprehensive, integrated communications platforms can significantly enhance the campus experience for faculty, administrators and students."

The only totally integrated carrier class VoIP switch that incorporates all of the components that make up the voice switching infrastructure, SAFARI C(Cubed) builds value in the network by providing seamless evolution to SIP-based features and an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture. 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.

SAFARI C(Cubed) is future-architected to fit within an IMS core network infrastructure, allowing network operators and private networks to leverage their initial equipment investment in voice as they introduce such services as video telephony and fixed-mobile applications. New applications can be integrated into SAFARI C(Cubed), or can be accessed via third-party application servers.