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4th Generation Communications

From point-to-point telegraph through to the automated public switch telephone network and into the era of high-speed data and mobility, the network is on the move.  With an evolutionary lifecycle first measured in decades, then years, and more recently compressed to mere months, we are now entering the 4th generation of communications.

Billions of endpoints will participate in this new network, including software elements, consumer devices and interconnected machines.  To meet the information acquisition and connectivity requirements of a cultural generation that was born and grew-up in the era of the Internet, the 4th generation of communications must envelop the techniques and devices employed by this demanding group of users.

These customers connect in the moment – not by the minute – and insist on a far richer multimedia experience than telephony consumers of the past.  Fortunately, network operators that build on Metaswitch stand ready to deliver a truly cohesive and all-encompassing communications solution that knocks out today’s limited alternatives.  Alternatives that offer isolated capabilities, delivered within proprietary, closed, walled garden environments by over-the-top applications providers, that cannot deliver a unified experience around the existing wireline DN or mobile MSISDN.

Disruptive communications is about more than the odd app or two.  Contacts, presence, text, talk, video, sharing?  The 4th generation is immersive communications - personalized to meet the needs of each individual.  It’s about granular control: for example, uplifting a call-in-progress from voice to video, while simultaneously pulling the session over to a device and network best suited for that medium.  It also embodies the social and business characteristics of the way people communicate today.  Accessible anywhere and anytime, shared content can be immediately posted onto personal, virtual, message boards or walls.  In the enterprise, network-based conversational threads that include IM, SMS, voicemails, calls and media or other content shared in real-time create searchable archives that replace increasingly fragmented email trails.

Enabling the 4th generation of communications requires a considerable understanding of emerging network and application infrastructures, together with a significant appreciation of the types of services that tomorrow’s discerning users will demand.  It also requires insight into how consumers will interact with these offerings and the manner by which network operators can quickly launch and effectively market them to defend their brand and reinforce revenue streams. The 4G switch is on. And Metaswitch is on it.

 

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