MetaSwitch Strengthens its Organizational Capacity to Meet the Demands of Carrier Customers
Data Connection Aligns Softswitch and Applications Divisions Under Single MetaSwitch Brand
Alameda, CA, September 25, 2007. MetaSwitch announced today that it has strengthened its ability to scale its business as service providers embrace its softswitch, service delivery platform and applications solutions. Following a merger with the previously separate Internet Applications Division (IAD) of parent company Data Connection, all the company's service provider products are now within a single business, under the MetaSwitch brand.
"This is a hugely exciting change which enables us to align and focus our resources on our service provider customers through one efficient streamlined organization, encompassing our full range of carrier products and expertise," said Ian S Ferguson, Chairman of Data Connection and MetaSwitch.
The MetaSwitch management team will be led by Graeme MacArthur as chief executive, and John Lazar as president and chief operating officer. As former chief executive of the IAD, Graeme brings more than a decade's experience in building relationships with tier one service providers worldwide, while John's leadership of MetaSwitch to date puts him in the best position to focus on technology development, product evolution, operational growth, and marketing - where he will continue to work with MetaSwitch customers and the industry in shaping MetaSwitch's strategy for the future. Chris Mairs continues to report to John, providing strategic vision as chief technical officer.
"We are seeing increasing demand for our solutions from service providers around the world, as they look to adopt technologies that enable them to generate revenue quickly from flexible new services," said Graeme MacArthur, MetaSwitch chief executive officer. "This is the right time to ensure we have the management, engineering and operational strength to continue to grow the business."
The combination is the natural progression of two divisions that have increasingly been working together on sales, marketing and product development efforts - most recently with the launch of the MetaSphere service delivery platform. This innovative enhanced telephony application suite has already been deployed by more than 100 service providers to form the foundation on which carriers will base their migrations to an IMS-enabled architecture. In total, the newly combined MetaSwitch organization has more than 320 customers worldwide.
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of switching and applications solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its MetaSphere service delivery platform and applications suite enables a broad set of hosted IP communications services, while its core session control and media/signaling gateway products support a full range of Class 4/5 softswitch capabilities. Customers include many of the world's leading operators of wireline, wireless and cable networks, with deployments that scale to millions of subscribers. For more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com.
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