Without a doubt, Metaswitch’s Network Technologies Division (NTD) offers the best portable protocol stacks to OEMs -- serving mainly the carriers, according to Telecom Pragmatics. As a result, one starts to wonder how much of a behind-the-scenes impact it is having on the OTN and MPLS-TP markets. In this issue, we also look at some of the challenges faced by NTD as a business in general.
This issue also includes answers to the following questions:
- Why is Metaswitch such a dominant force in this business?
- What is the optimism level in the market for MPLS-TP?
- How will many MPLS-TP networks evolve?
- Why is there more interest in a control plane for OTN compared with MPLS-TP?
- What are the current competitive positions of Alcatel-Lucent, Cyan, ECI, and Ekinops?
