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MetaSwitch Innovators Community Targets Open Source Application Development
New Business Social Network and Open Source Community Creates Opportunity for All MetaSwitch Stakeholders to Help Create the Next Wave of Communications Applications
| Source: MetaSwitch
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - April 8, 2009) - MetaSwitch Forum 2009 - MetaSwitch, the leader in reliable,
high-quality carrier IP communications solutions today announced the
formation of the MetaSwitch Innovators Community, a collaborative online
social business networking group focused on the creation of third party
software-based applications for the MetaSwitch product line. Formed to
foster the exchange of ideas among MetaSwitch's large group of active and
energetic customers and partners, as well as third party developers, the
MetaSwitch Innovators Community is designed to spark true innovation in
terms of how new applications are developed. MetaSwitch launched the
MetaSwitch Innovators Community at the 6th annual MetaSwitch Forum 2009
being held this week at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
The MetaSwitch Innovators
Community, http://innovators.metaswitch.com, is open to all MetaSwitch
customers and partners and is an online portal which provides sample code,
open source projects, API help and documentation, a sandbox test
environment, discussion groups, blogs, and the ability to communicate and
network with other innovators.
To kick off the community efforts, MetaSwitch is contributing its
CommPortal Widgets for Google, Vista and Mac environments, delivered as
part of its V7.0 release this month, under an open source license. The site
also includes resources for branding and re-using the features of
CommPortal, MetaSwitch's powerful web UI, along with help on the existing
JSON interface and new JavaScript samples. Utility tools on the portal will
include a billing file formatting tool and a tool for converting exported
user data to Excel format.
MetaSwitch engineers and third-party developers will also participate as
active members of the community. Contributing members can tap into
MetaSwitch's world-renowned development team through the community to seek
advice and suggestions as they create end-user, web-based and widget user
interfaces, additional utility tools, and management applications such as
provisioning and monitoring applications.
"MetaSwitch has a broad and diverse customer base that spans from rural
IOCs, cable operators, CLECs, Tier 1 incumbents to municipal networks and
ISPs, and we know that one size, or one application, does not fit all,"
said Neil Collins, director of the MetaSwitch Innovators Community.
"Through the MetaSwitch Innovators Community, our customers and partners
will be able to create applications based on their networks and their
customers' specific needs, providing an unprecedented degree of flexibility
and originality in how applications are developed."
"By creating the MetaSwitch Innovators Community, we are building a
different kind of online forum focused on innovation, collaboration and
interaction among our customers and partners, rather than building a mere
marketplace for third party developers who are not part of that community,"
said John Lazar, CEO for MetaSwitch. "This forum will give our customers
and partners the freedom to participate in community-driven application
development, adding a unique value to the MetaSwitch product line."
About MetaSwitch
MetaSwitch is a leading provider of carrier systems and software solutions
that are powering the migration of communications networks to open,
packet-based architectures. Hundreds of network operators worldwide depend
on its Carrier Division for reliable, scalable session control, media
gateway and application/feature server solutions to enable compelling
revenue-generating services. Its Network Protocols Division, marketed
under the Data Connection brand (www.dataconnection.com), develops high
performance, portable software components that are integrated into the
products of the world's leading communications equipment manufacturers. For
more information, please visit www.metaswitch.com.
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