MetaSwitch Brings Extensive Deployment Experience to New V2oIP Quality Alliance

Industry organization to promote clear, natural voice and video quality

 

Boston, MA: September 12, 2006 (Fall VON Conference). MetaSwitch, a leading vendor of next-generation carrier switching and application solutions, announced today that it is part of a select group of industry leaders forming a key new industry alliance to enhance the quality, performance and reliability of voice and video over IP (V2oIP) services. With a market expected to reach over $8 billion in revenue by 2008, addressing these issues early on is critical.

The V2oIP Quality Alliance, unveiled at the Fall VON Conference, defines two major goals for the group of members:

  • To advance the adoption of V2oIP and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction by defining and disseminating industry best practices related to V2oIP quality, reliability and performance.
  • To define requirements for network readiness, pre-deployment testing, in-service monitoring and troubleshooting, SLA definition and monitoring, and technologies for mitigating problems and enhancing voice quality.

With years of experience enabling carriers to migrate to packet-based networks, MetaSwitch is well positioned to play a key role in the success of this latest initiative.

"The ability to deliver clear, crisp and compelling voice and video content over IP is essential to any service provider's ability to develop meaningful revenue from this sizable market opportunity," said Andrew Randall, MetaSwitch vice president of marketing. "Having worked closely with literally hundreds of service providers deploying IP services, MetaSwitch brings valuable technical expertise derived from real-world experience to the V2oIP Quality Alliance."

In addition to those who have already joined the new organization, it is expected that the V2oIP Quality Alliance will quickly grow as other equipment vendors and service providers see the value of its goals.

Planned actions by the V2oIP Quality Alliance include: whitepapers, case study publications, webinars, conference presentations, workshops and other beneficial outreach.

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. MetaSwitch 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 US offices in California and Virginia, and European headquarters in London, UK. For more information: www.metaswitch.com.