<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Well, an off-the-shelf platform will certainly allow you to leapfrog quite a bit of development, especially development you may not wish to metabolise, either for reasons of being a service provider and not a software shop generally, or for reasons of GTM time specifically. </div><div><br></div><div>But you're also marrying that platform. Once you wed your backoffice and tooling and business processes to it, the divorce is very messy.</div><div><br></div><div>Depending on the complexity of your routing requirements, you may be better off going your own way, especially if you've managed to build a front-end and product fabric in <2 years.</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">—<div>Sent from mobile, apologies for brevity and errors.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 13, 2024, at 3:43 PM, Jawaid Bazyar <jawaid@bazyar.net> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have a use case. The use case is, be in a position to take customers tomorrow on a 5/9's platform.<br></div><div><br></div><div>One alternative is Ribbon: that solution is out of my price range, and, likely out of price range of every rural ILEC I know.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 3:33 PM Alex Balashov via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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> On Aug 13, 2024, at 3:20 PM, Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> "Microsoft's end game is for every operator to have a big pipe to Azure to access Metaswitch, vSBC, Teams and other components."<br>
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> My question is, can you actually run a MetaSwitch CFS in Azure? Because to my knowledge, you cannot.<br>
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> I would be very interested if I was wrong about this.<br>
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> Jawaid<br>
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> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM Peter Rad via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Besides getting rid of their Max UC softphone (to make MS Teams THEE softphone), they did EOL a lot of the Meta product.<br>
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> We - RAD-INFO, ECG and Andrew Ward - did a webinar about it in May. You can watch the recording here: <a href="https://info.ecg.co/webinar-recording-broadworks-metaswitch-netsapiens-ribbon" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://info.ecg.co/webinar-recording-broadworks-metaswitch-netsapiens-ribbon</a><br>
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> Microsoft's end game is for every operator to have a big pipe to Azure to access Metaswitch, vSBC, Teams and other components.<br>
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> Let me know if there is anything I can do for you. Thank you.<br>
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> On 8/13/2024 8:41 AM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps wrote:<br>
>> "Given the MetaSwitch products are no longer sold, and Microsoft is EOLing them, and not taking new support contracts..." <br>
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>> That's news to me.<br>
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>> From: "Jawaid Bazyar via VoiceOps" <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><br>
>> To: "voiceops" <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><br>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 7:23:05 AM<br>
>> Subject: [VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch<br>
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>> Hello, <br>
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>> 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.<br>
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>> The components we'd need are:<br>
>> CFS<br>
>> MRS (Media Resource Server)<br>
>> Perimeta<br>
>> SAS (Service Assurance Server)<br>
>> MetaView Server<br>
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>> These are fairly common components.<br>
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>> 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.<br>
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>> Anyone that has one and is interested, contact me directly off-list.<br>
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>> Cheers,<br>
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>> Jawaid<br>
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