[VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch

[Shawn L]

Kind of happy we chose Nortel (then Genband, now Ribbon) years ago at
$dayjob.

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 3:33 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps <
voiceops at voiceops.org> 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 <
> voiceops at voiceops.org> 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 <
> voiceops at voiceops.org> 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
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> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Midwest Internet Exchange
> >> http://www.midwest-ix.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> From: "Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps" <voiceops at voiceops.org>
> >> To: "voiceops" <voiceops at voiceops.org>
> >> 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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