[VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch

Peter Rad peter at 4isps.com
Wed Aug 14 14:28:00 EDT 2024


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 <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
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >>
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>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >>
>>     >> 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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