Capacity Magazine
- July 1, 2010 - Caroline Chappell
MPLS: Still the next big idea
"MPLS is both a mature technology and a rapidly developing one," explains Tori Downes,
principal technologist, Network Technologies Division at Metaswitch Networks.
And the reason MPLS is still developing where many network technologies
run out of steam or succumb to the next big idea after 10 years is the fact that
its "fundamental mechanism works so well", Downes adds. "There continues to be
a steady accumulation of features because the mechanism is so flexible and
attractive."
TMIA Talk
- July, 2010 - Al Cook
How We Use Voicemail is About to Change Forever! (PDF 1MB)
How we use voicemail is about to change forever. The integration and interaction of speech-to-text technology with other applications and services will bring significant cultural change to how we communicate.
CANTO Magazine
- July, 2010 - Al Cook
Why IMS? (PDF 3.7MB)
'IMS' - the IP Multimedia Subsystem - has been a buzzword in the telecom industry for much of the last decade, offering the promise of bringing wireline and wireless voice together into a modern, modular architecture. However, perhaps now more than ever IMS is truly being seen as the definitive architectural direction for future voice networks.
Light Reading Mobile
- June 22, 2010 - Sarah Reedy
Metaswitch Taps Nuance for Speech-to-Text
Steve Gleave, vice president of marketing for the carrier systems division of Metaswitch, says this is a good way to let users cut down on inefficient voice mails, as well as keep a searchable archive of the texts, emails, and voice mails they do get. Once a voice mail is left, consumers or business users can convert it to an SMS or email and then send it to any screen they choose.
VON/xchange
- June 22, 2010 - Richard Martin
Metaswitch Adds Speech-To-Text
Enriching its feature list for carriers and their enterprise customers, Metaswitch has tapped Nuance for speech-to-text transcription of voice mail within its unified communications products. The transcription features will be available to users of Metaswitch’s flagship CommPortal platform, which offers a single site for retrieving and managing messages over wireline and mobile phones, smartphones, laptops, fax machines and so on.
Opus Research
- June 22, 2010 - Dan Miller
Nuance and Metaswitch Offer "Carrier Optimized" Voicemail-To-Text
While announcements in the domain of network devices often fall into the "telco plumbing" category, this one is significant because it signals that transcription and delivery of spoken messages will be more routinely integrated into the product offerings of the "multi-screen" (TV, PC and mobile phone) carriers.
Unified Communications Strategies
- June 22, 2010 - Robbie Pleasant
Metaswitch Brings Speech-to-Text to Unified Messaging Portfolio
"Speech-to-text transcription provides a valuable convenience users didn't have before, as it allows for quick scanning and searching of content to find relevant information, allowing the user to quickly choose what to reply or pay attention to, while leaving other messages for a more convenient time. This is one of the core reasons service providers are adding this function onto their platforms," said Nancy Jamison, UCStrategies Expert, and President and Principal Analyst at Jamison Consulting.
TMCnet.com Advanced Carrier Services Channel
- June 22, 2010 - Rajani Baburajan
Metaswitch Integrates Nuance's Speech-to-Text Technology into Messaging Portfolio
John Pollard, vice president, Voice-to-Text Services, Nuance, said he thinks Metaswitch is the perfect partner for Nuance, especially when it comes to expanding Nuance's global voice-to-text footprint, because Metaswitch's network solutions reach a broad range of customers worldwide and provide an ideal platform to demonstrate the power and inherent business value of voicemail-to-text.
TMCnet.com
- June 17, 2010 - Shamila Janakiraman
Mariano Moreno Picks Metaswitch Voice Services for Deployment in Nueve de Julio
The deployment has been made possible by the joint efforts of Metaswitch along with its strategic partner Technology Bureau. Cooperative Mariano Moreno is one of the many community-based organizations among more than 500 cooperatives in Argentina. It is instrumental in driving the modernization of telecommunications in the country, emphasized company sources.
Light Reading
- June 1, 2010 - Caroline Chappell
Telcos Still Need a Plan for Application Delivery
"The challenge VoIP [voice over IP] providers are running into as VoIP traffic continues to grow is that SIP endpoints are connected to one another in a static way," comments Patrick Fitzgerald, Metaswitch Networks VP of sales and marketing, Service Broker Division, formerly known as AppTrigger Inc. "Every time a new SIP endpoint is added to the network, the switch has to be reconfigured. There is a gap emerging 'round the dynamic management of SIP traffic."
NGN Magazine
- May, 2010 - Jose Deras
Service Brokering on the LTE Network (PDF, 261KB)
Careful consideration of voice services and applications will ensure high-value customers (early LTE adopters) are able to enjoy the same voice features and services they are currently used to, ensuring they are permanent converts. Service brokers will play a critical role in ensuring CSPs are able to immediately migrate current voice revenue platforms for those early LTE subscribers.
TMCnet.com Advanced Carrier Services Channel
- May 25, 2010 - Rajani Baburajan
Metaswitch Networks, Varaha Systems Deliver Enhanced FMC Solution to DSM Telecom
The combination of Metaswitch and Varaha's uMobility solutions deliver advanced features to customers over virtually any network using the most advanced smartphones such as Apple's iPhone, RIM's BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia, company officials said.