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MetaSwitch Is Recognized as Internet Communications Industry Leader
2008 VON Innovator Award Honors MetaSwitch for Its MetaSphere Service Delivery Platform and Applications Suite
| Source: MetaSwitch
ALAMEDA, CA and NORWOOD, MA--(Marketwire - March 5, 2008) - MetaSwitch today announced that
its industry leading MetaSphere applications suite was recognized with a
2008 VON Innovator Award. The culmination of a three-month evaluation
process, the inaugural VON Innovator Awards identify the most innovative
organizations -- from start-ups to publicly traded companies -- that
represent the future of the Internet communications industry.
During the evaluation process, MetaSwitch stood out for its historic
achievements in leading the industry in migrating legacy telephone switches
to packet architectures, as well as its introduction last year of the
MetaSphere application suite. MetaSphere delivers an extensive set of
revenue-enhancing applications built on a flexible service delivery
platform that enables service providers to rapidly deploy new services on
either legacy circuit-switched or packet-based networks. These services and
applications include unified messaging, auto-attendant, privacy defender,
fixed-mobile convergence, hosted IP PBX, conferencing, live message
screening, incoming call manager, the CommAssistant desktop communications
manager, and CommPortal, a Web interface built on Web 2.0 standards.
"MetaSwitch has demonstrated consistent leadership in the Internet
Communications industry, and a track record of innovation that the
selection committee felt justified its inclusion in the VON Magazine
Innovator Awards," said Bill Sell, publisher, VON Media Group. "These
awards represent the industry's best and the brightest companies, and
MetaSwitch should be proud of its accomplishment in being part of this
prestigious group."
The MetaSphere architecture is fully aligned with IP Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS) standards, acting as a combined application server and media resource
function in IMS networks. When combined with MetaSwitch session control and
media gateway elements, MetaSphere delivers a rich portfolio of
next-generation services to subscribers on legacy TDM access networks or
pre-IMS softswitch networks as well as full IMS network cores. As a result,
many carriers are deploying MetaSphere as the first stepping stone in their
migration to a fully realized IMS-based session control architecture.
"MetaSphere's relevance to service providers of all types is demonstrated
by the fact that, after announcing it in June last year, we can now count
more than 100 carrier deployments, from tier one incumbents to regional
independent telcos and cable operators," said Andrew Randall, MetaSwitch
vice president of marketing. "Being named as one of the first 'VON
Innovators' reflects MetaSwitch's commitment to providing these compelling
new services to allow service providers to take advantage of market trends,
while leveraging their existing network resources."
About the VON Magazine Innovator Awards
Building on the legacy of the Pulver 100, the VON Innovator Awards have
evolved to recognize all companies -- start-ups to publicly-traded
companies -- which represent the future of Internet Communications. Each
participating company completed a lengthy and comprehensive nomination
process, and the recipients have been selected from a committee made up of
VON Magazine editors, columnists, and contributors, as well as the leading
content producer for the VON.x conferences. The Inaugural VON Magazine
Innovator Award winners will be honored at Spring VON.x at 6:00 PM Pacific
time on March 18th in the VON Theatre in San Jose. For additional
information, please visit: http://vonmag.com/innovators/.
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications
solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its MetaSphere service delivery platform and
applications suite enables a broad set of hosted IP communications
services, while its core session control and media/signaling gateway
products support a full range of Class 4/5 softswitch capabilities. Customers
include many of the world's leading operators of wireline, wireless and
cable networks, with deployments that scale to millions of subscribers. For
more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com.
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