{"id":4640,"date":"2006-08-01T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/metaswitch-cable-telephony.html"},"modified":"2006-08-01T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T12:00:15","slug":"metaswitch-cable-telephony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/sip\/metaswitch-cable-telephony.html","title":{"rendered":"MetaSwitch Cable Telephony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MetaSwitch has always been a leading edge technology company and they know acronyms well. Perhaps that is why they aren&rsquo;t afraid to launch YAIPCA or Yet Another IP Communications Acronym. In this case it is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2006\/08\/01\/1757507.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">COMETE<\/font><\/a>! Or Cable Operator Multiservice Platform for Enhanced Telephony Evolution.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;From a technology perspective, this is an entire network,&rdquo; said Andy Randall, vice president of marketing at MetaSwitch. &ldquo;And we&rsquo;re backing it up with professional services for operators who want help deploying voice for the first time or with the next step in migrating to IMS.&rdquo;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>The platform is built on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cisco.com\/\">Cisco&rsquo;s<\/a> IP Next-Generation Network infrastructure (IP NGN) and utilizes the unspecificed bit rate (uBR) series of cable modem termination systems (CMTS), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linksys.com\/\">Linksys<\/a> multimedia telephone adapters, MetaSwitch&rsquo;s own multimedia session control and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciatl.com\/\">Scientific-Atlanta<\/a> set-top boxes. It also uses Cisco&rsquo;s Service Exchange Framework (SEF) for seamless support for Web 2.0 and .NET applications.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud MetaSwitch working with Cisco &ndash; very smart move as Cisco is doing very well in the cable market. My recent trip to Cisco&rsquo;s headquarters left me very impressed with the networking giant&rsquo;s cable strategy. The Cable market is poised to grow for years to come as they gear up to fight off the ILECs so in summary TIAVSMFM or this is a very smart move for MetaSwitch.<\/p>\n<p>See Authur Cole&rsquo;s in-depth <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2006\/08\/01\/1757507.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">story<\/font><\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2006\/08\/01\/1757507.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">MetaSwitch cable telephony news<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetaSwitch has always been a leading edge technology company and they know acronyms well. Perhaps that is why they aren&rsquo;t afraid to launch YAIPCA or Yet Another IP Communications Acronym. In this case it is COMETE! Or Cable Operator Multiservice Platform for Enhanced Telephony Evolution. &ldquo;From a technology perspective, this is an entire network,&rdquo; said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,189,190,191],"tags":[252,298,1247,1147,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}