That's not happening. The Metaswitch employees I know that are left are
happy taking marching orders from M$.
The problem the softswitch industry had was that the pie was stable. It
wasn't growing, so you weren't selling new logos. You were just
supporting customers - and that isn't a growth business nor is it a
profitable business.
The problem is that of the 900 operators using Metaswitch in the US,
most are mom and pop and rural. That doesn't convert to "Going Azure."
These mom-and-pop's will have to make due with what they have for the
next 5 years - and use that 5 years as a runway for an exit strategy.
The largest Metaswitch white-label provider just went to CXDO, so the
writing on the wall that I have been seeing for 2 years, others are now
seeing.
Regards,
Peter @ RAD-INFO
On 8/13/2024 3:54 PM, Jeff Brower via VoiceOps wrote:
Not sure about Affirmed, but I know some of the original MetaSwitch
guys, and a few still at Microsoft. They were, and I suspect still
are, extremely dedicated and capable. My guess is they will find a way
to spin out / buy out MetaSwitch in some form it will continue.
-Jeff
Quoting Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps <[email protected]>:
I have a use case. The use case is, be in a position to take
customers tomorrow on a 5/9's platform.
One alternative is Ribbon: that solution is out of my price range,
and, likely out of price range of every rural ILEC I know.
A second is Squire, but, I'm not willing to risk it w/o getting my
hands on a long-term trial which was requested but not offered.
The final alternative is to throw into developing one, likely in two
phases. The orchestration and front end of the Elephant Talk project
is complete, now just need to settle on a production backend.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 3:33 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps
<[email protected]> wrote:
I suppose this all raises the question of why on earth you'd want
to acquire a Metaswitch, but you've clearly got an angle.
-- Alex
> On Aug 13, 2024, at 3:20 PM, Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> "Microsoft's end game is for every operator to have a big pipe
to Azure to access Metaswitch, vSBC, Teams and other components."
>
> My question is, can you actually run a MetaSwitch CFS in Azure?
Because to my knowledge, you cannot.
>
> I would be very interested if I was wrong about this.
>
> Jawaid
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM Peter Rad via VoiceOps
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Besides getting rid of their Max UC softphone (to make MS Teams
THEE softphone), they did EOL a lot of the Meta product.
>
> We - RAD-INFO, ECG and Andrew Ward - did a webinar about it in
May. You can watch the recording here:
https://info.ecg.co/webinar-recording-broadworks-metaswitch-netsapiens-ribbon
>
> Microsoft's end game is for every operator to have a big pipe
to Azure to access Metaswitch, vSBC, Teams and other components.
>
>
> Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Radizeski
> RAD-INFO INC
> Telecom Consultant
> Bandwidth * Voice * Cloud * Data Center * Internet * CyberSecurity
> (813) 963-5884
>
>
>
> On 8/13/2024 8:41 AM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:
>> "Given the MetaSwitch products are no longer sold, and
Microsoft is EOLing them, and not taking new support contracts..."
>>
>>
>> That's news to me.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>
>>
>>
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>> http://www.midwest-ix.com
>>
>>
>>
>> From: "Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps" <[email protected]>
>> To: "voiceops" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 7:23:05 AM
>> Subject: [VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are in the market to acquire / take over a MetaSwitch CFS.
In particular, we're looking for the virtual edition that runs
purely in VMWare.
>>
>> The components we'd need are:
>> CFS
>> MRS (Media Resource Server)
>> Perimeta
>> SAS (Service Assurance Server)
>> MetaView Server
>>
>> These are fairly common components.
>>
>> Given the MetaSwitch products are no longer sold, and
Microsoft is EOLing them, and not taking new support contracts,
we're not talking about a big cash up front kind of deal, but,
instead a revenue share kind of arrangement.
>>
>> Anyone that has one and is interested, contact me directly
off-list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jawaid
>>
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