The SAFARI C^3™ Media Switching System from Cedar Point Communications empowers cable providers of any size to offer competitive voice services with superior operational economics. By leveraging revolutionary PacketClass™ technologies, SAFARI C³ removes the business and technical obstacles that have impeded the delivery of voice services while creating a new standard for carrier-class cable. Cedar Point—originally founded to address cable operator demands for VoIP telephony solutions—is led by a management team with extensive experiences in the cable industry.

Until now, cable operators looking for a VoIP telephony solution have been presented with mismatched telephony products developed for other industries and other classes of providers. Cedar Point understands that the right cable telephony solution requires a fundamentally different, approach—one that meets the operational and business requirements of cable operators.

SAFARI C³ is a carrier-class cable telephone solution built on the premise that network quality and reliability can never be sacrificed for any reason. SAFARI C³ was designed with consideration of the entire cost of ownership. It enables cable providers of any size to realize substantial, comparative savings for initial equipment and integration costs, as well as the long-term benefits of impressive returns in ongoing operational cost savings.

SAFARI C³ makes this possible through advanced, enabling PacketClass technologies, which take into consideration the multimedia nature of packet-based networking and also extract the essence of what has made today’s telephone network a highly reliable, available, operationally sound, secure and private network. SAFARI C³ combines these elements to form a single, simple, yet revolutionary PacketCable™-based telephony solution that allows cable providers to rise to the challenge of delivering a true carrier-class voice network.

Supporting both circuit and packet based traffic in one voice switching chassis, SAFARI C³ delivers today’s carrier-class voice networking services as well as support for future multimedia integration requirements.

PacketClass Technologies

PacketClass Technologies take into consideration the ubiquity of packet technologies and the need to evolve into a multimedia network—with the same quality, availability, security and privacy available in today’s carrier-class circuit switched voice systems. PacketClass technologies enable and accelerate deployment of new services with reduced integration and ongoing operations costs.

SafariView™ EMS

The SafariView Element Management System (EMS) enables cable system operators to manage multiple SAFARI C³ systems, extract system performance information and integrate SAFARI C³ with existing and future provisioning systems—all while utilizing standard interface protocols. SafariView delivers features and benefits for next-generation operations management, enabling sophisticated control over the customizing of call features as well as self-provisioning of call services by customers through a Web browser. SafariView makes tomorrow’s vision of telephony operations a reality today.

Simplified Operations and Management

SAFARI C³ delivers VoIP and circuit switched traffic in one PacketCable-based voice switching chassis. This design tremendously simplifies implementation costs. SAFARI C³ makes it easy for cable operators currently offering circuit-switched telephony services to elegantly migrate to IP services. In this scenario, SAFARI C³ will support all new subscriber voice traffic with VoIP without disruption to current circuit switched traffic.

SAFARI C³ is a seamless, incremental upgrade for any DOCSIS 1.1-enabled networks. Once the cable plant has been fully upgraded to support two-way connectivity, SAFARI C³ can be added—without service disruption or system redesign—to deliver new voice services.

For more information about deploying Cedar Point solutions for cable infrastructure, visit the SAFARI C³ and SafariView pages to read about the products and download datasheets, application sheets and whitepapers.