Metaswitch’s NTD: Unsung Enabler of OTN and MPLS-TP?

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?