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Metaswitch
 

Metaswitch is a company that is, and has always been, a software company. They have a history of providing high performance software to the communications industry, while solving its most difficult problems. They strive to make this software available on commercially off-the-shelf hardware. They have developed expertise in platform application programming interfaces (APIs) and user interface design. As a result, Metaswitch has an enviable head start in network functions virtualization (NFV), with many of our products already operating within cloud-based environments. Metaswitch expertise in writing scalable applications and software for multi-core CPUs and cloud computing environments has helped solve many of the problems associated with decoupling complex communications software from proprietary hardware.

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[toggle_framed title=”Communications Infrastructure”] Metaswitch delivers a broad range of communications infrastructure products that meet the needs of service providers who are building next-generation voice networks, modernizing legacy voice networks or deploying new voice applications. The Metaswitch communications infrastructure provides the full range of legacy CLASS services, across traditional or broadband access, with softswitch and media platforms. This combination not only provides service continuity as your network evolves, but helps accelerate the roll-out of new high-value services that continue to attract and retain subscribers.
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[toggle_framed title=”Integrated Softswitch”]The Integrated Softswitch offers a compact, self-contained solution for small to medium scale Class 4 or Class 5 switch replacement or for VoIP service delivery. Based on a combination of selected MetaSphere telephony applications running directly on processor blades in the Universal Media Gateway platform, the Integrated Softswitch is highly cost-effective and exceptionally simple to deploy.
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[toggle_framed title=”Universal Media Gateway”] Our highly scalable trunking media gateway (IMS-MGW) provides circuit to packet conversion while transitioning in-band TDM signaling to its IP counterpart. As carriers drive towards all-IP infrastructures, these media gateways provide a scalable and cost-effective way to leverage legacy circuit switch devices, protecting the huge investment large operators have made in this established technology. With independent H.248 / MGCP media gateway control, our solutions also meet the requirements of network infrastructures built on IMS core components.
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[toggle_framed title=”Media Resource Server”] The Media Resource Server provides an IMS-optimized media resource function (MRF) across all network infrastructures, including wireline, wireless, broadband, cable or satellite. Designed for scalability and resiliency, the MRS has been purpose-built to deliver media resource functions for MetaSphere telephony application server deployments. Optimized for advanced NGN VoIP infrastructures, the MRS uses the ubiquitous session initiation protocol (SIP) combined with the powerful but efficient media server markup language (MSML) to deliver customizable, multi-service audio features.[/toggle_framed]
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Management Systems

At the core of every Metaswitch network, the MetaView Network Management System (NMS) provides unified management with an easy-to-use graphical user interface.

Providing a consolidated window into the entire Metaswitch product range, including MetaSphere, CommPortal, Universal Media Gateway and Media Resource Server, MetaView significantly enhances your ability to reduce operational costs even as you introduce compelling new services into your network.

MetaView NMS simplifies the management of your network through close integration with all members of the MetaView family. Family members include:
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[toggle_framed title=”MetaView Web”]An intuitive web-based subscriber-management suite, specifically designed around the needs of your provisioning and customer support staff.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”MetaView Explorer”]A powerful Java-based client that significantly enhances your ability to reduce operational costs even as you introduce compelling new services into your network.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”Service Assurance Server”]Advanced diagnostics platform that helps your technicians to diagnose many common configuration, network and interoperability problems, saving you time and money.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”Voice Quality Monitoring”]Network-based system for monitoring the quality of calls traversing your VoIP network that enables you to more easily diagnose the cause and remedy for quality issues.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”SIP Provisioning Server”]A revolutionary multi-tiered approach to the provisioning and management of subscriber SIP devices.[/toggle_framed]
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Powerful Management Tools

At the core of every Metaswitch network, the MetaView NMS provides provisioning, configuration, fault reporting, statistics and trouble-shooting services across the entire Metaswitch product range. Designed to help you minimize your operational costs, MetaView offers management capabilities that are powerful and intuitive. It offers a choice of user interfaces and a number of unique capabilities that address the particular challenges of trouble-shooting, device configuration and service quality control:
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[toggle_framed title=”Provisioning and Configuration”]MetaView supports different provisioning practices, via MetaView’s own user interfaces – MetaView Explorer and MetaView Web – or through integration with an Operations Support System, using MetaView APIs.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”Problem Management”]MetaView manages alarms and logs and supports integration with external alarm monitoring systems using standard protocols.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”Accounting”]MetaView stores statistics in an open database (enabling you to perform your own custom analysis) and outputs billing data in industry-standard formats.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”Security”]MetaView manages user login credentials and privileges and records audit trails of all configuration changes, providing a secure and customizable framework for access control and management.[/toggle_framed]
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Architecture

The MetaView platform is based on a three-tier architecture, comprising

  • the network elements being managed
  • the MetaView Server, an aggregation entity which manages the multiple network elements. MetaView Server presents an upstream SNMP/Corba interface to MetaView Explorer, MetaView Web clients and third-party OSS, billing, and network monitoring platforms such as IBM Tivoli Netcool.
  • the MetaView clients, including Metaview Explorer and MetaView Web.

In addition, the platform enables your subscribers to self-select and initiate new services via the CommPortal™ Web interface. To assist you in supporting customers using CommPortal, a service provider login feature allows your customer service representatives to access and modify CommPortal settings on behalf of a subscriber.

Integration and Billing

MetaView can be readily integrated into third-party OSS, billing and network management systems via

  • SNMP MIBs
  • a Corba programming interface encapsulating the underlying SNMP MIBs
  • a northbound SOAP/XML interface.

External billing / mediation systems are easily integrated since the MetaSphere Application Server generates industry-standard AMA-format (GR-1100 / GR-1343) Call Detail Records, accessed by secure ftp.

IP Telephony

Voice is still at the core of your communications business. But while the relationship between voice and your revenue is still clear, the relationship between voice and your network is not. Progressive service providers understand, and regulators agree, that voice is now just an application that rides on top of a broadband network. To compete in the modern communications market, service providers must move their voice to broadband, enhance the experience, then scale and secure for the future.

As a company with an unmatched legacy in simplifying the migration from TDM switching to VoIP, and a rate of innovation that sets us apart from the rest, Metaswitch is your obvious partner of choice for the move to a new era in voice communications.

During this transformation, service providers must address the very real challenges of

  • Moving existing stove-piped services to an all-IP applications server
  • Providing a consistent user experience across multiple, disparate endpoints
  • Delivering a compelling communications service that counters the threat from over-the-top competitors
  • Building a network that maintains existing services and reduces operating costs while supporting the rapid introduction of an integrated communications portfolio that meets the demands of a gobal and mobile customer base

By working with Metaswitch, leading service providers are updating the telephony experience with cheap and flexible VoIP service plans, with access to unified messaging, and made available on telephones, tablets and TV.

Around the globe, service providers are bringing their infrastructure, messaging platforms, telephony services and applications into IP. Building their business on a unifying communications experience that is built on Metaswitch.

Integrated Softswitch

The VP6010 and VP6050 Integrated Softswitches offer compact, self-contained solutions for small, medium or large Class 4 / Class 5 switch replacement or for VoIP service delivery. Based on a combination of select MetaSphere telephony applications running directly on processor blades in the Universal Media Gateway platform, the Integrated Softswitch is highly cost-effective and exceptionally simple to deploy.

The VP6010 and VP6050 are both built on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ATCA platforms designed for cutting edge performance and easy maintenance. The mid-density VP6010 supports up to 100,000 subscribers and 400,000 Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA), while the high-density VP6050, designed for larger softswitch deployments, scales to 600,000 subscribers and 2.4 million BHCA.

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[toggle_framed title=”Flexibility for every application”]The VP6010 and VP6050 support the widest range of protocols of any softswitch on the market, with comprehensive next-generation and legacy capabilities including SIP, MGCP, H.248, AIN, GR-303, CAS, ISDN, MF and ISUP. In addition, you can deploy the VP6010 or VP6050 as a signaling gateway, enabling cost-effective termination of SS7 signaling links anywhere within the network and transport of ISDN signaling messages to the Gateway Control function of MetaSphere, over IP. It even provides a media server function for playing network and service announcements and for mixing multi-way calls.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”Future-proof open architecture”]Metaswitch preserves your investment by ensuring that our products remain relevant at every stage of your network deployment: from a pre-IMS solution, all the way to a fully realized distributed IMS core. The VP series of Integrated Softswitches functions as ‘IMS in a box’, enabling you to realize the new revenue streams that IMS application servers enable with the simplest possible deployment model. When you’re ready to migrate to full IMS, Metaswitch protects your investment by providing a seamless phased migration path which allows you to repurpose our Integrated Softswitches for Media Gateway (MG) or Access Gateway (AG) functionality.[/toggle_framed]
[toggle_framed title=”Carrier-grade reliability”]The NEBS Level 3-certified VP6010 and VP6050 were designed from the outset for 99.999% (“five nines”) system reliability. They achieves this goal through a fully redundant, hot-swappable hardware design, with a combination of 1:1 redundancy for processor blades and power supplies, as well as all TDM and IP interfaces. Even the internal packet bus is powered by two redundant switches. In addition, a sophisticated application-aware software fault tolerance scheme ensures that, in the event of a program logic error, the backup processor takes over control of the chassis ensuring uninterrupted service.[/toggle_framed]
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