Bill McCarthy, operations director with MetaSwitch partner Cisco talked with PodTech.net about opportunities and challenges for competitive local exchange carriers. The interview took place during a MetaSwitch-sponsored breakfast event at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida.

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Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch‘s vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities [See the full post…]

In an interview with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, MetaSwitch‘s Chris Mairs, CTO and senior vice president, business development, and Andy Randall, vice president, marketing, discuss the partnership between Cisco and MetaSwitch, the definition of [See the full post…]

What will it take for CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers) to thrive in the coming decade? What business strategies are they adopting and do new technologies offer opportunities to compete – or destroy their ability to differentiate? And what regulatory [See the full post…]

IMS is often presented as the “Holy Grail” of network architectures that will enable carriers to choose best of breed components from multiple vendors. In reality, vendors and service providers must jointly invest significant effort to achieve interoperability based on [See the full post…]

PodTech.net sits down with Joe McGarvey, Senior Analyst at Current Analysis, and John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO, to discuss why service providers are migrating their networks to IMS-based architectures including IP/Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV and converged multimedia services.

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This entertaining and informative series of podcasts, brought to you by MetaSwitch, brings together industry analysts, technology experts, and service providers to discuss how carriers are transforming their networks and their businesses to benefit from the opportunities offered by multi-service, [See the full post…]