<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>This is sad. During my time in the CLEC world, MetaSwitch were a kind of customer service darling, always well-regarded for their support and seen to be a hip, modern and disruptive platform, not like those Broadsoft guys.</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 3:28 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">*nods* I knew they let a lot of people go, but I figured they still had something going.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>http://www.ics-il.com<br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br>http://www.midwest-ix.com<br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Chris Meilleur" <chris.meilleur@corp.vianet.ca><br><b>To: </b>"Mike Hammett" <voiceops@ics-il.net>, "Jawaid Bazyar" <jawaid@bazyar.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"voiceops" <voiceops@voiceops.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 13, 2024 10:55:58 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>RE: Acquire MetaSwitch<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">As of June 6<sup>th</sup> they toasted the Meta sales team. I called this happening 2 years ago when MS bought them. I think they were in it for
the core voice => MS teams . Now I’m in the middle of sourcing and deploying another Perimeta SBC set for mandated ng911 interconnection. “You’ll have a quote next month,” “still working out the details for the hardware platform with dell on the new line
of servers”…excuses for almost 2 years. Finaly, getting somewhere, they hard it worked out with the hardware vendor, “You’ll have your quote early next week” …..time comes and goes…wait a few days.”Hey what’s up with the quote guys?” “Oh Hey, I guess no
one told you, early last week Microsoft let the accounts team from Meta go without warning. The entire team. I’m surprised no one reached out to you. I guess you’ll hear from someone at Microsoft shortly…”<br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Hammett via VoiceOps<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 13, 2024 8:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jawaid Bazyar <jawaid@bazyar.net><br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">"Given the MetaSwitch products are no longer sold, and Microsoft is EOLing them, and not taking new support contracts..."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">That's news to me.</span></p>
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<b>To: </b>"voiceops" <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" target="_blank">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, August 13, 2024 7:23:05 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>[VoiceOps] Acquire MetaSwitch</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">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,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Anyone that has one and is interested, contact me directly off-list.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Cheers,</span></p>
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