Metaswitch

Metaswitch
Metaswitch Networks
Type Private[1]
Industry Telecommunications[1]
Founded United Kingdom (1981 (1981))[2][3]
Founder(s) Ian S. Ferguson[2][3]
Headquarters London, UK
Number of locations 8+ (2010)[4]
Area served Worldwide
Key people

John Lazar, Chairman
Kevin DeNuccio, CEO
Graeme MacArthur, EVP

Clive Partridge, GM, Network Technologies Division[5][6]
Products Software and hardware solutions for service providers, network protocol stacks for equipment manufacturers[1]
Revenue £82 million (2010)[7]
Employees 700 as of October 2011[8]
Divisions

Carrier Systems

Network Technologies[1]
Website www.metaswitch.com

Coordinates: 51°39′10″N 0°5′16″W / 51.65278°N 0.08778°W / 51.65278; -0.08778 (Metaswitch head office)

Metaswitch Networks (commonly Metaswitch) is the trading name of Data Connection Ltd and Data Connection Corp,[9] a private UK-based company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets telecommunications hardware and software solutions to communication service providers, equipment manufacturers and large enterprises.

Contents

Corporate history

The company was founded as Data Connection Ltd (DCL) in 1981 by seven former IBM employees led by Ian Ferguson, who remains on the board of directors.[2][3][6] The company's earliest business areas included IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA) and retail point of sale systems. In 1987, the founders established the Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) to hold the shares of the company on behalf of the employees, which enabled company-wide profit sharing.[10][11]

The company launched its carrier systems business under the Metaswitch brand in 2000,[2] and by 2008 that division was responsible for 78% of the company’s revenue.[12] In January 2008 Francisco Partners, a private equity firm, and Sequoia Capital, a venture capitalist firm, invested an undisclosed sum in Data Connection.[13][14] In April 2009 the company announced intentions to consolidate all of its products and business operations under the Metaswitch brand, with two business units: the Carrier Systems Division and Network Protocol Division.[15] This rebrand was completed by 7 October 2009.[16]

In March 2010, Metaswitch Networks announced that it was acquiring AppTrigger Inc, a telecommunications company that provides Service Broker solutions.[17] It announced acquisition of Colibria AS, a Norwegian provider of Rich Communications Suite (RCS) software, in April 2011.[18]

Products and services

Network Technologies Division

The Network Technologies Division (renamed from Network Protocols Division in May 2010[19]) develops and licenses portable protocol stacks for system manufacturers of VoIP, IP Routing, MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS), Generalized MPLS (GMPLS), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), and Systems Network Architecture (SNA) equipment.[20][21]

Carrier Systems Division

The Carrier Systems Division develops and sells a range of softswitch and IP Multimedia Subsystem products, including a suite of telephony applications (MetaSphere), web-based user interfaces for telephony systems (CommPortal) and a management interface (MetaView).[22]

Thrutu

The Thrutu division is based in Palo Alto and launched a mobile app in March 2011[23] offering 'RCS-lite' sharing capabilities direct to consumers.

Clients

Metaswitch claims more than 250 equipment manufacturer and 500 service provider customers,[24][25] including 150 independent operating companies (IOCs) and 125 competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs).[26]

Awards and recognitions

  • Technology Innovation and Export Sales
  • Human Resource Awards
    • 2004–2011 Placed in the top 14 of mid-sized company category of The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. The highest rank was #3 in 2004.[29]
    • 2005 Ranked #3 in the 50 Best Workplaces in the UK by the Financial Times.[30]
    • 2005 One of the 100 Best Workplaces in the European Union by the Financial Times.[31]
  • Product/Company Awards
    • 2008 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award; TMC[32][33]
    • 2008 Top 15 VoIP Companies – Metaswitch; Fierce VoIP[32][34]
    • 2008 Excellence Award – Metaswitch; Internet Telephony[32][35]
    • 2008, 2006 Top 100 Vendor – Metaswitch; Broadband Properties Magazine[32][36][37]
    • 2008 Diamond Award – Metaswitch; Broadband Gear Report[32]
    • 2008 VON Innovator Award – Metaswitch; VON Magazine[32][38]
    • 2007, 2006, 2004 Frost & Sullivan Award – MetaSwitch; Frost & Sullivan[32][39][40][41]
    • 2003 Pulver Top 100 – Metaswitch; pulver.com[32][42]
    • 2000-2005 Product of the Year – Metaswitch; Internet Telephony[32][43][44][45][46][47][48]

Board of directors

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