Huawei (News - Alert) Technologies has expanded its existing relationship with advanced carrier services provider Metaswitch Networks by licensing a broad portfolio of Metaswitch’s network protocol software to power Huawei’s next generation family of packet transport platforms.

 

Under the terms of the partnership agreement announced today, Metaswitch will provide Huawei with Metaswitch’s unicast and multicast routing, packet MPLS and VPN/PWE support. Additionally, Huawei will take advantage of Metaswitch’s integrated control plane components that bond together the protocol stacks to deliver a fully integrated solution.

 

The original relationship between Huawei and Metaswitch began in 2002 when Metaswitch provided control plane software for Huawei’s optical networking platforms.

Today’s announced agreement significantly expands the relationship to include a much broader set of Metaswitch protocol products to be deployed on a new set of Huawei packet platforms.

 

“An essential ingredient of our success in recent years has been Metaswitch’s quality engineering and exceptional support,” said Jeffrey Li, director of the software department in Huawei’s Network Business unit. “They have provided a rock-solid foundation for our optical products, and have allowed us to focus our engineering resources on the value-added features that distinguish us in the market. This has been a very successful partnership so far, and we are confident of continued success going forward.”

 

Phil McConnell, general manager of Metaswitch’s Network Protocols division, said that licensing a significant package of network protocol software to one of the top providers of networking equipment in the world that’s also the largest supplier of telco equipment in China, “speaks volumes for our software and support.”