Metaswitch announces that SureWest Communications has selected the MetaSphere Application/Feature Server to provide advanced IP telephony services for business customers. Delivered over SureWest's state-of-the-art network, the new MetaSphere-based services are expected to provide SureWest's business customers with increased communications efficiency, productivity and flexibility, and an array of innovative telephony applications.

One of the nation's largest, and most forward-thinking, integrated communications providers, SureWest serves roughly 150,000 residential subscribers and 15,700 business customers in the Kansas City and Sacramento regions. In deploying MetaSphere, SureWest joins the growing number of carriers who have chosen MetaSphere to deliver enhanced services that drive competitive advantage in the hosted business services marketplace.

To serve the critical business segment, which represents about a third of its revenues today, SureWest needed a feature-rich, manageable and scalable platform. MetaSphere delivers a suite of compelling value-added services that includes unified messaging, auto-attendant, incoming call manager, live message screening and intuitive Web-controlled voice conferencing.

Video Interview

Key SureWest decision-makers share more about their partnership with Metaswitch in a video available for viewing at www.metaswitch.com/SureWest.