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In The News 2010

  • TMC.net - 12/10/2010 - Susan Campbell
    Taking Communications to the Customer
    In a recent presentation in New York City, Al Cook, Product Marketing, Metaswitch Networks, highlighted that the threat from wireless and Over the Top Providers is very real. Users value mobility and flexibility and are demanding a common set of features integrated across the many devices they rely on throughout the day. Everything they access should be available through every device they use to access it.
  • Doug on IP Comm - 11/10/2010 - Doug Mohney
    Metaswitch Forum 2011 – Going to Vegas in high style
    Dates and a location for Metaswitch Forum 2011 have been announced. The event will be October 3-6, 2011, at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
  • No Jitter - 10/27/2010 - John Bartlett
    Session Border Controllers Evolving to Support Video Conferencing
    Tori Downes of Metaswitch told us of their support for video conferencing: "We are implementing now for deployment soon." Tori’s view is that customers are not yet clamoring for business-to-business (B2B) video conferencing support, but she thinks the demand is growing, and believes Metaswitch's SBC lineup will be ready for the anticipated need.
  • TMCnet - 10/26/2010 - Paula Bernier
    CounterPath Talks About New Metaswitch Partnership
    "We have seen the arbitrage and destruction of local and long-distance revenues as non-traditional providers enter the market," says Donovan Jones, president and CEO of CounterPath. "With our joint offerings, we are enabling service providers to compete with unique, and in some cases patented, technologies and products that Metaswitch and CounterPath are making possible for the first time."
  • Light Reading - 10/14/2010 - Carol Wilson
    Metaswitch CEO: VoIP + Mobility = $$
    The Voice over IP market may seem mature -- even old hat -- to many in the telecom space, but Kevin DeNuccio, CEO of Metaswitch Networks , insists the best is yet to come for VoIP.
  • The Randolph Leader - 10/7/2010
    TEC celebrates new technology transition
    "We are pleased to announce that we have migrated from the legacy switch to a state of the art Metaswitch IP voice softswitch," said Charles May, Roanoke plant manager.
  • InfoTech Spotlight - 10/7/2010
    Cavalier's IPeer Advanced IP Telephony Service Receives Metaswitch MarketVisionaries Award
    Cavalier was recognized in the Marketing Innovation category based on its IPeer Advanced IP Telephony "Cash for Clunkers" campaign for the ingenuity, economic alignment and overall success of the program.
  • Service Broker Forum - 10/5/2010
    New Poll Reveals Over 85% Responders Consider Service Brokers As Key Solution To Their Network Transformation Strategy
    Service Providers have found that as they move to advanced IP based architectures, they require a more flexible, cost effective alternative to traditional application connectivity models. Service Brokers meet this need by providing a real-time horizontal service delivery and control layer, allowing for mediation and orchestration of services over a range of networks and application platforms, including both legacy and next-generation. As a result, the Service Broker has emerged as a critical network element in any network transformation strategy.
  • Light Reading - 10/1/2010 - Michelle Donegan
    Leading Lights Finalists: Private Company of the Year
    The company made it clear this year that it wants to do more than its traditional business of selling VOIP gear, application servers, and protocol stacks.
  • TMCnet - 9/29/2010 - Rahul Arora
    Occam to Discuss Service Provider's Benefits at Metaswitch Forum
    Occam Networks investigated how service providers can benefit from the Metaswitch-Occam Networks' solutions combination, at the 2010 Metaswitch Forum.
  • Jon Arnold's Analyst 2.0 Blog - 9/29/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch Forum 2010 - Video Clips
    Well, things sure get busy in a hurry coming back from a conference, especially with conferences coming up for me over the next three weeks. I finally got a chance to upload and prepare some video interviews from last week's Metaswitch Forum in Orlando. (Cloud, Sigma, Telax, Doug Mohney, Ron Gruia, Dan Marcus)
  • Doug on IP Comm - 9/27/2010 - Doug Mohney
    Metaswitch Networks announces yearly financials
    Last week, Metaswitch Networks released its unaudited (i.e. trust us) annual results for its 2009/2010 fiscal year through August 31. Plenty of growth, EBITDA, and acquisitions.
  • Jon Arnold's Analyst 2.0 Blog - 9/27/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch Forum - More Photos
    (photos posted from Forum) Last week's Metaswitch Forum was as good as always, and the company sure is doing a lot of things right.
  • ToddCarothers.com - 9/27/2010 - Todd Carothers
    My Thoughts: Metaswitch & CounterPath Announce Significant Partnership
    Last week Metaswitch and CounterPath announced a long-term partnership that promises to change how wireline and wireless service providers compete with entrant Internet-based operators–i.e., Skype and Google.
  • Unified Communication Strategies - 9/26/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch and ADTRAN – Bringing UC Closer to SMBs
    Last week I attended Metaswitch Forum 2010 in Orlando, and continue to come away impressed with their ability to both grow and evolve their value proposition.
  • TMCnet - 9/25/2010 - Rich Tehrani
    Metaswitch Forum 2010 Final Thoughts
    (overview of Rich's experience at the Forum) Still, it seems clear from discussions I had with equipment companies and vendors in the industry that the carrier market will continue to rapidly evolve and providers need to get involved in the app store, advertising and media businesses. They must change to survive and embracing new technologies is a crucial part of this evolution.
  • HD Voice News - 9/24/2010 - Doug Mohney
    Metaswitch Forum: U.S. mobile HD voice being driven by over-the-top, 4G LTE
    Metaswitch executives are very gung-ho about the opportunities for wireline carriers to use softphone softclients to deliver over-the-top (OTT) services to tie together wireless and wireline offerings, but OTT won't be the only driver for mobile HD voice in the U.S.
  • HD Voice News - 9/24/2010 - Doug Mohney
    Metaswitch Forum: HD voice/video messaging "on the map"
    As HD voice and video services move forward, Metaswitch is in the initial stages of looking at how to upgrade its products to support messaging for those data types.
  • Telecoms Europe - 9/23/2010
    News In Brief: Alcatel-Lucent, Gartner, Amis, Metaswitch Networks
    Solid growth in North America helped Metaswitch Networks grow revenues 33% to £82.4 million (€96.3 million) and maintain EBITDA margins at 20% in the year to August 31.
  • TMCnet.com Advanced Carrier Services Channel - 9/22/2010 - Gary Kim
    Innovation is the Only Way Forward for Telcos
    In a remarkably candid speech, Metaswitch Networks CEO Kevin DeNuccio pointed out the key issue that fixed-line service providers will face in the coming decade: innovation.
  • Jon Arnold's Analyst 2.0 Blog - 9/22/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch Forum 2010 - Day 1 Photos
    Am definitely hearing some strong messaging here about where Metaswitch is going and the strong foundation they're building on now. In short, the next decade for Metaswitch will be about globalization and maximizing the value they can deliver as a software company. This is not the same Metaswitch from a few years back, and their evolution path is as forward-thinking as anybody else's out there. They've grown a lot in 10 years, and there haven't been many steps backwards along the way.
  • TMCnet - 9/22/2010 - Rich Tehrani
    Metaswitch Forum 2010 Photos
    I spent the evening at the Metaswitch Forum 2010 in Orlando, FL and had a chance to take some photos of an event which took place at the Universal CityWalk where there was terrific networking taking place. I got to hear lots of stories from CLECs and regional carriers which is always useful - to get the end-user perspective on vendors and the challenges they face.
  • Convergencia Latina - 9/22/2010
    Telecom chose Metaswitch to launch Hosted PBX services
    Telecom Argentina will start to provide Hosted PBX services for small and medium-sized companies using Metaswitch MetaSphere solution and integration services of Technology Bureau. The company believes this is one of the most relevant projects in the region. Metaswitch was chosen after a strict selection process carried out by Telecom Argentina, including tests in hybrid environments that would enable interoperability with other platforms.
  • Connected Planet - 9/22/2010 - Rich Karpinski
    Metaswitch: Lots of innovation left in voice
    Owning the home, including delivering VoIP services there, remains a "strategic asset" for telcom service providers, says Metaswitch CEO DeNuccio
  • VON/exchange - 9/21/2010 - Richard Martin
    CounterPath Debuts Android VoIP App
    Touting the first "commercial-grade" VoIP application for the open-source Android mobile operating system, from Google, VoIP software provider CounterPath is offering a preview of its Bria Android Edition softphone client at the Metaswitch Forum in Orlando, Fla., this week. The Android application will be officially launched in October, the company said.
  • DougOnIPcomm - 9/21/2010 - Doug Mohney
    Metaswitch Forum – Yes, I’m here
    Metaswitch has been quite kind over the years despite my various shifts in job locations. I hope they keep the good-spiritedness alive as they move forward becoming a Bigger Company.
  • TMC.net Bloggers - 9/20/2010 - Rich Tehrani
    Off to Genband, Metaswitch then ITEXPO Events
    Metaswitch too has been growing quickly and they've made a few acquisitions as well. I am looking forward to catching up with the company to see what's next.
  • Telecom Reseller - 9/15/2010
    Duo County Telephone VoIP Migration With CitelOs Portico TVA
    As part of its search for enhanced service offerings, Duo County decided to move to a Metaswitch softswitch to allow more flexibility and features in its voice offerings.
  • D CEO Magazine - 9/15/2010 - Phil Harvey
    How to Turn Around a Telecom
    With a service broker in place, a company like AT&T could create services for its customers more quickly. "A service broker enables any communications service to be delivered on any network, regardless of whether the service was originally developed for that network," writes Caroline Chappell, an analyst for telecom researcher Heavy Reading.
  • Ingenia - 9/1/2010 - Michael Kenward OBE
    A Sound Communicator - Chris Mairs FREng
    As Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Metaswitch, Mairs’s expertise is essentially in software. The CTO’s role, he explains, is very much about high-level strategic vision.
  • Jon Arnold's Analyst 2.0 Blog - 7/30/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch Newsletter Relaunch / Debating the Merits of Voicemail
    Being an indie, working from home, I'm constantly struck by how many people in this market work the same way as me. We have no water cooler to go to - that's why Facebook, Linked In, and of course Twitter are so popular. I'm just glad to see someone connect the dots here and use email as a channel to extend the water cooler beyond the physical office. We may not be reading about rumors or saucy gossip, but we all want to know what other people are doing, thinking, saying, etc.
  • The Queen's Award for Enterprise Magazine 2010 - 7/1/2010
    Metaswitch Networks receives Queen's Award for Innovation
    In recent years, Metaswitch has been at the forefront of the conversion of traditional phone networks to Voice over IP, and the exciting range of new "unified communications" applications that enables. More than 500 service providers, including major telecoms firms such as AT&T and British Telecom, have deployed Metaswitch solutions. As a result, Metaswitch is ranked as one of the leading providers of such technology worldwide.
  • Capacity Magazine - 7/1/2010 - 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 - 7/1/2010 - Al Cook
    How We Use Voicemail is About to Change Forever!
    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 - 7/1/2010 - Al Cook
    Why IMS?
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    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 - 6/22/2010 - 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.
  • Opus Research - 6/22/2010 - 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 - 6/22/2010 - 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 - 6/22/2010 - 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 - 6/17/2010 - 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 - 6/1/2010 - 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."
  • TMCnet.com Advanced Carrier Services Channel - 5/25/2010 - 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.
  • FierceVoIP - 5/24/2010 - Mike Dolan
    Grandstream CPEs interoperable with Metaswitch Networks
    Just to keep up on all the interoperability news, let's not forget the all the company-to-company interoperability still going on while the UCIF gets going. The latest case in point is Grandstream Networks, which just announced interoperability with Metaswitch Networks.
  • VoIP Monitor - 5/20/2010
    Grandstream Completes Metaswitch Interoperability Certification
    Grandstream Networks announces interoperability with Metaswitch Networks that will bring Grandstream’s affordable SIP/VoIP enterprise voice CPE solutions to Metaswitch service provider customers.
  • Light Reading - 5/14/2010 - Tim Hills
    Who Makes What: Evolving SIP Application Servers
    "Our business is about helping telcos, cable MSOs, and mobile operators stay relevant. There is a real risk that they become just a pipe operator and everything is done over the top. We still think that they have a place to play for many reasons as a purveyor of applications, and some of those applications will be voice based."
  • CEDMagazine - 5/11/2010 - Mike Robuck
    Switch is on: Knology picks Metaswitch for upgrade
    Knology has tabbed Metaswitch Networks to help enable its VoIP applications and switching infrastructure.
  • DougOnIPcomm - 5/11/2010 - Doug Mohney
    The Cable Show 2010 -- Metaswitch Finds Opportunities
    Deploying Metaswitch in combination with the MetaSphere applications software framework/suite provides an integrated, turnkey solution for business and consumer-based applications.
  • Telecompetitor - 5/11/2010 - Bernie Arnason
    Knology Looks to Metaswitch for VoIP
    "Having started as a telephone company in 1896, we have a proud and storied history of providing high-value and innovative services to our customers," said Tony Palermo, vice president of marketing at Knology.
  • NGN Magazine - 5/1/2010 - Jose Deras
    Service Brokering on the LTE Network
    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 Internet Telephony - 5/1/2010 - Paula Bernier
    Mobile VoIP: Skype, Verizon Deal is Hot Topic
    Chris Carabello, director of marketing with Metaswitch Networks adds that partnering with an over-the-top type like Skype also is "a lower-cost way for the operator to deliver voice." Adds Carabello: "I think we've seen some pricing pressure on the wireless side, so it's not surprising they're doing everything they can to manage those costs."
  • FierceTelecom - 4/20/2010 - Sean Buckley
    Cavalier Telephone extends Southern IP telephony reach
    Based on Metaswitch's softswitch technology, IPeer also automates other tasks including the ability to conduct moves, ads and changes or changing call forwarding or auto-attendant queues via a web portal.
  • Carrier Evolution - 4/5/2010 - Gary Kim
    MCV Broadband: Easiest Softswitch Business Case, Ever

    MCV Broadband CEO and president Craig Thompson probably had the easiest business case for his new Metaswitch Networks softswitch of any service provider you ever heard of. In fact, Thompson says his decision to buy a softswitch was "the easiest decision I've made in 30 years." Eight month payback.

  • Business News Americas - 4/5/2010 - Juan Pedro Tomás
    MetaSwitch wins contract with tier-1 operator for hosted services solution
    US softswitch and applications provider MetaSwitch Networks has signed a contract with a tier-1 telecoms services operator in Argentina for the provision of a hosted services solution.
  • FierceTelecom - 4/1/2010 - Sean Buckley
    Integra Telecom turns to Metaswitch to simplify voice network
    To help simplify its operations, Integra Telecom, which has prided itself on its local touch with customers, has turned to Metaswitch Networks to update its voice network. Through its work with Metaswitch, the facilities-based carrier will be able to consolidate its disparate set of software and hardware platforms and as a result enhance the customer experience.
  • Global Telecoms Business - 3/29/2010 - George Malim
    OSS transformation for an all-IP future benefits operators
    The transition to all-IP is happening and is significant, according to Steve Gleave, vice president of marketing in the carrier systems division of Metaswitch Networks. Gleave says established OSS vendors must take on board the understanding that windows into the network have changed. "Operators expect an easy-to-use, web-oriented, multiple device experience. If existing OSS vendors miss this point, a major sector will be owned by new vendors," he says.
  • AdvaTel - 3/17/2010
    PhoneEasy IP Console now Metaswitch V7.0 Certified
    AdvaTel, a leading applications software designer and developer for the global telecommunications industry, today announced that its PhoneEasy IP Console telephony management software has successfully completed higher accreditation interoperability testing. PhoneEasy IP Console (Version 2.0.2) was tested in a Metaswitch lab facility and is verified as compatible with Metaswitch Release 7.0.
  • Carrier Evolution - 3/9/2010 - Gary Kim
    Metaswitch Networks Acquires AppTrigger

    Metaswitch Networks has made its first-ever acquisition, acquiring AppTrigger, a provider of service broker solutions. The addition of the AppTrigger Ignite platform to the Metaswitch product line-up will enable the company to provide standalone service broker solutions, as well as accelerate adoption of its switching and applications product lines in fixed-line and wireless networks in multiple geographical markets.

  • IP Communications Insights - 3/9/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch makes a smart move
    Today [Metaswitch] announced their first acquisition since [Kevin DeNuccio became CEO], and it's exactly what you'd expect given their big picture plans. In short, Metaswitch has acquired Richardson, TX-based App Trigger, an established vendor in the service broker space. I wasn't familiar with this company before, but I followed this space fairly closely when there were more players.
  • Connected Planet - 3/9/2010 - Rich Karpinski
    Metaswitch buys AppTrigger in yet another middleware app deal
    Metaswitch today said it acquired service broker vendor AppTrigger in a deal that starts to fulfill the promise of new Metaswitch CEO Kevin DeNuccio to aggressively grow its business.
  • VON - 3/9/2010 - Richard Martin
    Metaswitch to Aquire AppTrigger
    Making its first major acquisition, Metaswitch Networks said it will acquire AppTrigger, a provider of service brokers to carriers. The acquisition marks another step in Metaswitch’s strategy to become a major player in the carrier softswitch and IP applications platforms markets.
  • Light Reading - 3/9/2010 - Phil Harvey
    Metaswitch Squeezes AppTrigger
    VoIP technology specialist Metaswitch Networks is to acquire AppTrigger Inc., the service broker vendor based in Richardson, Texas.
  • 4G Wireless Evolution - 2/23/2010 - Presented by TMCNet.com
    Telax Hosted Call Center Announces Partner-Certified Call Center Solution for Metaswitch Networks
    Telax announced today that Metaswitch Networks, a leading global provider of carrier systems and software solutions, has certified Telax Hosted Call Center as interoperable with the Metaswitch solution. The certification was issued following Telax's successful completion of a series of intensive interoperability tests with Metaswitch version 7.0 and Telax Hosted Call Center's ACD 10.3.0.0 SIP protocol
  • VON - 2/5/2010 - Richard Martin
    New CEO Discusses Global Expansion, Mobile Future
    I'm very excited about the opportunity in front of us as a company. John and I have grown in our relationship, and we've carved out a unique niche for Metaswitch. The company has become a player in the industry that's badly needed, and that has been able to achieve a long-term competitive advantage, with its deep voice and IP expertise.
  • IP Communications Insights - 2/4/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch Announces New CEO
    Metaswitch is a great example of a company that goes about its business quietly, deliberately and effectively. These really aren't 2.0-style virtues, but I'll take their track record any day over the fast and furious.
  • VON - 2/4/2010 - Richard Martin
    Metaswitch Names DeNuccio CEO
    Re-organizing for a period of rapid growth and industry consolidation, Metaswitch Networks today named Kevin Denuccio, a former executive at Cisco Inc. (CSCO) and Redback Networks, as its new CEO.
  • TMCnet.com - 2/4/2010 - Gary Kim
    Metaswitch Networks Names Kevin DeNuccio its New CEO
    "We have three product threads today, softswitch being one, where we are an industry leader, and then the applications space and the protocol division," DeNuccio says. Metaswitch believes it can double that portfolio, for starters.
  • Light Reading - 2/4/2010 - Carol Wilson
    Redbacker DeNuccio Becomes Metaswitch CEO

    Metaswitch Networks has quietly built itself into a significant player in the IP convergence vendor market, drawing on its strengths in softswitches and data protocols. This morning, the U.K.-based company is trumpeting its intentions to build further by announcing the appointment of former Redback CEO Kevin DeNuccio as its new top executive. Current CEO John Lazar becomes chairman, replacing Metaswitch founder Ian Ferguson, who remains on the board of directors.

  • Connected Planet - 2/4/2010 - Rich Karpinski
    Metaswitch names new CEO, eyes new markets, growth
    Former Redback Networks CEO Kevin DeNuccio takes top job as Metaswitch pursues new opportunities, including a greater North American presence. Metaswitch Networks today named former Redback Networks CEO Kevin DeNuccio as its new chief executive officer, with the new CEO saying the company is poised to grow strongly by extending into new markets and product opportunities in the next three to five years.
  • Phone+ - 2/4/2010 - Richard Martin
    Metaswitch Names DeNuccio CEO
    Metaswitch has "the opportunity to expand our product set as revenues grow," said DeNuccio, who has served on the company's board for the last two years. "We intend to expand globally, but we also have a large existing customer base and we want to continue to expand our product line to provide them with ... next-generation, new kinds of products that we see needed in the network."
  • FierceTelecom - 2/4/2010 - Sean Buckley
    Former Redback exec DeNuccio takes reins at Metaswitch
    Metaswitch is turning yet another chapter in its evolving playbook by appointing former Redback/Ericsson leader Kevin DeNuccio as its new CEO. Current CEO John Lazar, who has been promoted to company chairman, said that the latest appointment will help the company compete on a worldwide basis.
  • FierceVoIP - 2/4/2010 - Mike Dolan
    Metaswitch names DeNuccio CEO
    DeNuccio has sat on the board of Metaswitch for the last year giving him a running start as he moves to head the company. In the release, the new CEO gave his take on the company and his plans: "I soon realized Metaswitch had a quite extraordinary combination of talent and technology--traditional telephony and exciting new mobile, IP-based applications--that could fill this innovation gap and propel it into the ranks of the major vendors worldwide. So, when the opportunity arose to help drive that strategy from the inside, I jumped at it."
  • TMCnet - 2/4/2010 - Marisa Torrieri
    Metaswitch Networks Announces Kevin DeNuccio as New CEO
    "As the economy eases out of recession, Metaswitch is poised to emerge as a significant player with global scope," Lazar said, calling the transition a "tremendously exciting" prospect, as well as a challenge. "The board, including myself, unanimously agreed that Kevin's extensive CEO experience, supported by my ongoing close involvement as chairman, will create the best possible leadership team for this next phase in the company's evolution."
  • TMCNet.com - 1/25/2010 - David Sims
    Metaswitch Celebrates 500/250 Thresholds for 2009
    We don't know how you celebrated the new year, but we polished off a bottle of quite good champagne and resolved to keep all out resolutions. Metaswitch Networks celebrated by hitting the 250-customer threshold for the Network Protocols Division, and the 500-customer tally for its Carrier Systems Division.
  • Connected Planet - 1/20/2010 - Rich Karpinski
    Metaswitch scores indy-style VoIP deals - with APAC flavor
    VoIP and IP infrastructure vendor Metaswitch Networks this week announced a series of customer wins with a series of smaller telcos that resemble U.S. independent carriers on the technical front – if not in climate.
  • IP Communications Insights - 1/13/2010 - Jon Arnold
    Metaswitch - Rolling Along Nicely
    Metaswitch is a company I've followed for a long time, and as private companies go, they're right up there in terms of being well run. Their offerings are solid, their customer base keeps growing, they're making money, the management team is stable, and they have a strong employee culture.
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