MetaSwitch Growth Continues to Accelerate as Market For IMS Heats Up

MetaSwitch passes six million subscriber licenses and two million gateway port deployment milestone; ranks as one of the top two vendors in North American softswitch market

 

Chicago (GLOBALCOMM): June 5, 2006. Today MetaSwitch, a leading vendor in next-generation carrier switching and application solutions, announced it has achieved a significant deployment milestone: passing the six million subscriber license and two million gateway port deployment marks for its award-winning platforms. In addition, the company has been ranked as one of the top two leading vendors in the North American Class 5 softswitch market, according to a recent report issued by Infonetics Research. The Service Provider Next Gen Voice and IMS Equipment Quarterly Worldwide Market Share and Forecasts for 1Q06 ranks MetaSwitch as the number two provider of Class 5 softswitches in North America.

"Capital expenditure budgets are being allocated to growth areas such as next generation voice platform deployments, and MetaSwitch has clearly been able to capitalize on this in North America," said Stéphane Téral, Directing Analyst, Service Provider Next Gen Voice and Mobile Core for Infonetics Research. "Based on the company's revenue and shipments over the last year, MetaSwitch is among the fastest growing of all the top vendors in the Class 5 market. They have quickly become an emerging challenger to incumbent vendors."

MetaSwitch also announced a range of new technologies as part of its Multimedia-Enhanced Telephony Architecture (META) strategy targeted at carriers migrating to converged multi-service networks. These enhancements, focused on supporting a carrier's ability to deploy IMS-based services preparing carriers to deliver a robust suite of multimedia services. MetaSwitch also unveiled an enhanced partner program and the expansion of its professional services team designed to speed a carrier's ability to move from evaluation, to deployment, to revenue with advanced IP services.

"MetaSwitch has clearly become a leading force in the market as carriers look for innovative solutions on which to base their migration to IMS-based architectures to support IP communications services," said John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO. "Our plan is to leverage this growth to expand into new geographies, enter new markets segments including cable and wireless, and to expand our relationships with our Tier 1 and Tier 2 carrier customers worldwide."

Carriers and service providers can learn more about MetaSwitch solutions by visiting Booth #67080 at GLOBALCOMM. MetaSwitch executives and customers will also be speaking on several panels as part of the Telephony Magazine IP Summit, Telecommunications Magazine Telecom U, OSP Expo and IEC Communications Forum conference tracks.

About MetaSwitch

MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) switching and applications solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its widely deployed call agent, media/signaling gateway and application server platform supports a full range of legacy Class 4/5 capabilities and hosted unified communications services, and scales from a few hundred to millions of subscribers in both integrated and distributed configurations. Customers include incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers, as well as operators of broadband wireless, cable and fiber networks. MetaSwitch is a division of established telecom technology provider Data Connection. The company is consistently profitable and privately held, with main U.S. offices in California and Virginia, and European headquarters in London, U.K. For more information: www.metaswitch.com.