MetaSwitch Introduces Self-Service CommPortal for Configuration of Communication Services.MetaSwitch Leverages Web 2.0 to Deliver Highly Customizable User Interface for Next Generation Service Delivery SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- MetaSwitch announced today general availability of a new communications Web portal See portal. that enables service providers to deliver a streamlined, dynamic Web experience that offers outstanding usability for subscribers to purchase and use next generation voice communications services. MetaSwitch's new CommPortal leverages Web 2.0 standards and best design practices to deliver an exceptionally intuitive and tightly integrated user interface to a wide range of services delivered from the award-winning UC9000 unified communications The real time redirection of a voice, text or e-mail message to the device closest to the intended recipient at any given time. For example, voice calls to desk phones could be routed to the user's cellphone when required. platform, as well as calling features provided by the MetaSwitch Call Agent, including Visual Voicemail Visual Voicemail or Random Access Voicemail is the process of adding a visual aspect to mobile phone voicemail and allowing users to listen to their messages in the order of their choice. , Recent Calls List, Contact Management, Find Me / Follow Me, Call Forwarding call forwarding n. A telephone service that enables a customer to have an incoming call automatically rerouted to another extension. Noun 1. and Selective Call Screening. CommPortal's advanced architecture provides outstanding customizability, offering service providers exceptional scope to style CommPortal Web pages so as to match their corporate look and feel, and to embed materials such as banner ads and promotional offers that are frequently updated. "In today's highly competitive, rapidly evolving communications market, services providers need a platform that offers the flexibility to quickly configure and deliver new applications as well as lay the groundwork for new service creation," said Andrew Randall Andrew Randall (born 1974) is a British murderer. He murdered his seven-week-old daughter Jessica Randall on the morning of 21 November 2005. Randall, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, admitted murder at his trial on 15 November 2006 at Northampton Crown Court. , vice president of marketing for MetaSwitch. "MetaSwitch's new CommPortal streamlines the service delivery process, providing an outstanding level of customizability for the end user and their service provider." With CommPortal installed, both residential and business end users can self-subscribe to various managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality offered by their provider, eliminating the need for time consuming and costly site visits for new service activation. A dynamic, streamlined user-centric interface presents all the users' communications settings just a click or two from the main 'dashboard' screen. As a result, customers can also now more easily manage and expand existing services to better meet their changing needs via a single log-in for all applications. "Service providers need platforms that provide greater flexibility in terms of how they develop, package and deliver new communications services in response to customer demands and an evolving technology environment," said Craig M. Clausen, senior vice president and COO, New Paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. Resources Group, Inc. "MetaSwitch clearly understands how to support their customers' dynamic service creation needs by providing a mechanism that streamlines how services are consumed by the service provider's end customer." MetaSwitch will be demonstrating CommPortal at booth 1027, Spring VON 2007. About MetaSwitch MetaSwitch is an industry-leading vendor of IP Multimedia Subsystem An integrated network for telecommunications carriers that uses the IP protocol as its foundation for packetized voice, video and data. Supporting voice over IP (VoIP) in all its flavors (SIP, H.323, MGCP, etc. (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) switching and applications solutions for both packet and circuit-switched networks. Its widely deployed call agent, media/signaling gateway and application server platform supports a full range of legacy Class 4/5 capabilities and hosted unified communications services, and scales from a few hundred to millions of subscribers in both integrated and distributed configurations. Customers include incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers, as well as operators of broadband wireless See wireless broadband. , cable and fiber networks. MetaSwitch is a division of established telecom technology provider Data Connection. The company is consistently profitable and privately held, with main US offices in California and Virginia, and European headquarters in London, UK. For more information, please go to www.metaswitch.com Data Connection and MetaSwitch are trademarks of Data Connection Limited and Data Connection Corporation. Brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Copyright [c] 2007 Data Connection Limited |
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