Interesting. I'll have to read that J-STD-025A. -TD ALAMEDA, Calif. -- MetaSwitch, supplier of the VP3500, the industry's first true Next Generation Class 5 Switch, announced today that it has completed an extensive review with the FBI, which demonstrates that the MetaSwitch CALEA specification meets the J-STD-025A standard for circuit switching equipment. CALEA, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, requires that U.S. carriers provide Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) with the continued ability to perform electronic surveillance with existing and new telecommunications switching equipment. Electronic surveillance consists of either the interception of call content (commonly referred to as wiretaps) and/or the interception of call-identifying information (commonly referred to as dialed-number extraction). "We simplified providing CALEA compliance for our customers by incorporating CALEA functionality on-board the MetaSwitch VP3500 rather than requiring additional external equipment", said John Lazar, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "We are ensuring the completeness of our solution with ongoing testing with the FBI." In light of the current uncertainty in world events, electronic surveillance is becoming increasingly important as a tool for law enforcement agencies. Therefore it is vital that vendors and telecommunications carriers develop and deploy solutions that support electronic surveillance, in both traditional TDM and next generation packet-based networks. Technical requirements or standards for CALEA capabilities have been established for several categories of telecommunications by industry associations or standard-setting organizations, in consultation with representatives of the law enforcement community. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and Committee T1, standards organizations, are currently working on a further revision, J-STD-025B to cover packet based networks. Metaswitch _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail