[VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch

[Jeff Brower]

  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 <voiceops at voiceops.org>:

> 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  
> <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
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>> --
>> Alex Balashov
>> Principal Consultant
>> Evariste Systems LLC
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