Peter-
What I think you're saying is that Microsoft acquired Metaswitch
because of their cloud native communications technology, and they
still like that, but are now shedding the physical equipment part of
the business.
That makes business sense for Microsoft Sr management, but there is
revenue in non-Azure edge communications and AI, maybe not M$ level of
multiple billions, but substantial and growing. Retail surveillance,
robotics in factories, automated vehicles, etc need communications and
inference specifically not in the cloud -- cheap, instant response,
100% fail-safe reliable, and private. I find it hard to see Metaswitch
guys who spent 25+ years building a successful combined hardware +
software business, who were very good at it and for whom AI is a
natural fit with their signal processing and HPC background, watching
it and their customer base disappear. But as you say, maybe they are
happy with it.
-Jeff
Quoting Peter Rad via VoiceOps <[email protected]>:
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.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest Internet Exchange
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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