Metaswitch Networks — the British software developer founded in 1981 for management of telecommunication networks. The company develops software helping telecom operators to manage the local infrastructure, to diagnose problems in network and to block spam calls.
History
2020: Microsoft purchased Metaswitch Networks
On May 14, 2020 Microsoft announced Metaswitch Networks acquisition, but did not begin to set the price of the transaction. Thanks to this purchase the software giant expects to make the cloud platform by Azure even more attractive to telecommunication clients.
Platform 5G of Core developed in Metaswitch Networks which forms a program basis for work of reference network of a 5G infrastructure is of special interest for Microsoft. This platform can be started in a public cloud, including in Microsoft Azure, using Kubernetes and program containers.
Merger of Metaswitch Networks not only will allow Microsoft to compete for a 5G projects, but also will help clients operators with many other components of their infrastructure, notes the SiliconANGLE edition.
As the corporate vice president of Azure Yusef Halidi reported, to the middle of May, 2020 of Microsoft actively is engaged in development of superhigh-performance cloud-based communicating programs. Microsoft expects to find on behalf of Metaswitch already ready-made solutions for telecom industry, he emphasized.
 | We will support further hybrid and mnooblachny models for creation of more various telecommunication ecosystem and the accelerated development of innovations, expansion of set of unique offers and increase in opportunities for differentiation business, – Halidi in the blog on the occasion of Metaswitch purchase wrote. |  |
According to analysts of ABI Research, this transaction of Microsoft continued to erase edges of border between the web companies and telecommunication operators. Experience of Microsoft in cloud infrastructure, and now and specialized cellular technologies will probably create the serious competition for the operating vendors, experts believe.[1]
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