Carrier Systems

Metaswitch delivers a broad range of telephony application server and switching products that meet the needs of service providers who are building out next-generation voice networks, modernizing legacy voice networks or deploying new voice applications. The Metaswitch product set is unique in the breadth of its capabilities, providing comprehensive legacy equivalence in services and connectivity, as well as addressing the need for new high-value services that attract and retain subscribers.

Metaswitch products embody open standards and interfaces for interoperability with a wide range of third-party equipment in both telco and cable environments, and deliver on an overall architectural vision whereby legacy networks evolve seamlessly to the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) with full investment protection along the way. The products combine Metaswitch’s long-standing expertise in mission-critical software development with fully redundant carrier-class hardware in various form factors, offering modularity and scalability to suit networks from a few thousand to many millions of lines.

Metaswitch offers the following products:

• MetaSphere™, the industry's broadest suite of voice and telephony applications.
• CommPortal™, the Web 2.0 platform that delivers rich visual user interfaces to MetaSphere applications across all types of devices.
• Universal Media Gateways, designed to support MetaSphere applications over legacy access and trunk network connections.
• Integrated Softswitch, a combination of selected MetaSphere telephony applications integrated with the Universal Media Gateway platform to provide a compact, self-contained solution for switch replacement or VoIP service delivery.
• Media Resource Server, complementing CommPortal by supporting the telephone user interface services to MetaSphere applications.
• Service Broker, enabling true seamless "any-to-any" service and application interworking between IN/TDM and IP/IMS service domains.
• MetaView™, the solution for network management across the entire Metaswitch product line.