MetaSwitch has long been delivering the industry’s biggest selection of telephony applications, on the market today. Metasphere enables customers to mix and match service features already available, allowing companies to enter the market at quicker pace, while still being able to offer a competitive product. MetaSphere applications come pre-integrated, and share common hardware and software resources. Thus, adding new services to existing ones is made much less complicated.

Because of this factor along with Advanced Carrier Services, businesses are able to offer an alternative of product offering with great services that will help to target new high-value subscribers, increase revenues from continuing customers, and greatly reduce subscriber churn and line loss.

A set of applications can be used individually, or alongside MetaSphere, which contains all of the options for legacy and next-generation voice services, MetaSwitch’s website describes.

The first great benefit of MetaSphere is that it uses POTS, which works to deliver service equivalence to legacy switches for practically all local calling features in use today, ensuring subscriber retention by preserving complete service transparency in switch replacement scenarios.

Metasphere also offers Consumer VoIP, which provides a highly flexible solution that enables service providers to create compelling consumer VoIP packages by combining a wide range of traditional and next-generation local calling features.

 Another advantage with using MetaSphere is Hosted PBX (News - Alert) which works to enable business voice applications to meet the needs of small, medium and large enterprises, enabling service providers to present compelling alternatives to key systems and PBXs that generate highly attractive incremental revenues.

Business IP Trunking is offered with MetaSphere, which offers a powerful and flexible solution to address the rapidly growing market for IP-PBX connectivity via native SIP trunks, meeting all essential needs including business continuity and offering interesting opportunities to up-sell network-based services.

MetaSphere offers tandem applications that meet the needs of local, access and long distance tandem switching which provide a complete solution for updating legacy core voice networks to VoIP.

 A benefit of MetaSphere is the Voicemail/Unified Messaging feature which offers subscribers the richest possible set of audio or transcribed voicemails and unified messaging capabilities, maximizing convenience and ease-of-use across multiple devices and access methods.

“MetaSphere and its applications represent a portfolio of advanced services that... are engineered to meet current and future market trends, ultimately providing a roadmap for future innovation," Becky Watson, Program Manager at Frost & Sullivan (News - Alert), said in a statement on MetaSwitch’s website.

MetaSphere's IP-based architecture was configured with the ability to adapt for millions of subscribers. It is highly flexible, with many configuration options that use deployment in legacy, pre-IMS and full IMS network architectures.