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Bill McCarthy: Cisco on Opps, Challenges for CLECs

04:43 | Catherine Girardeau | Feb 13th, 2007 11:59pm |

Bill McCarthy, operations director with MetaSwitch partner Cisco talked with PodTech.net about opportunities and challenges for competitive local exchange carriers. The interview took place during a MetaSwitch-sponsored breakfast event at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida.

Transcript:

Host: Catherine Girardeau – PodTech
Guest: Bill McCarthy – Cisco Systems

Catherine Girardeau – PodTech
From the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida this is PodTech.net.

Bill McCarthy is Operations Director with Cisco Systems managing field service providers. Bill talked with PodTech.net about opportunities and challenges for the new Competitive Local Exchange Careers.

Bill McCarthy – Cisco Systems
When we think of emerging providers, our definition would be CLECs’ new greenfield opportunities like a bondage a couple of years ago. But, we also work with ISPs, we work with the Euroflings (Inaudible), but lot of folks here are trying to figure out the riddle in terms of translating the competitive business and this is something that’s profitable today.

Catherine Girardeau – PodTech
So, tell me a little bit more about Cisco’s role in the current climate, about what’s going on with CLECs?

Bill McCarthy – Cisco Systems
Well, traditionally we’ve been involved with the core and ...

Convergence Spells Opportunity for Managed Services

07:56 | Catherine Girardeau | Feb 13th, 2007 |

Gary Kim, managing editor of IT Business Wire, and Andy Randall, MetaSwitch’s vice president of marketing, chat with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando after a breakfast meeting sponsored by MetaSwitch. The breakfast panel focused on opportunities and challenges for the new competitive local exchange carriers, or ...
Technology Challenges for Next Generation CLECs

11:53 | Catherine Girardeau | Feb 13th, 2007 |

In an interview with PodTech.net at the World Center Marriott in Orlando, Florida, MetaSwitch’s Chris Mairs, CTO and senior vice president, business development, and Andy Randall, vice president, marketing, discuss the partnership between Cisco and MetaSwitch, the definition of service in next generation networks, and the challenges CLECs ...
MetaSwitch: The New CLEC

32:25 | Catherine Girardeau | Dec 8th, 2006 |

What will it take for CLECs (competitive local exchange carriers) to thrive in the coming decade? What business strategies are they adopting and do new technologies offer opportunities to compete - or destroy their ability to differentiate? And what regulatory changes are imminent that will change the ground rules - ...
IMS Interoperability - Getting Ahead of the Deployment Curve

21:28 | editor | Aug 23rd, 2006 |

IMS is often presented as the “Holy Grail” of network architectures that will enable carriers to choose best of breed components from multiple vendors. In reality, vendors and service providers must jointly invest significant effort to achieve interoperability based on open standards. The MultiService Forum (MSF), a leading industry body ...
Network Transformation: Market Drivers

20:30 | editor | Jul 24th, 2006 |

PodTech.net sits down with Joe McGarvey, Senior Analyst at Current Analysis, and John Lazar, MetaSwitch CEO, to discuss why service providers are migrating their networks to IMS-based architectures including IP/Ethernet, VoIP, IPTV and converged multimedia services.

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Zen and the Art of Network Tranformation - Sponsored by MetaSwitch

00:49 | editor | Jul 20th, 2006 |

This entertaining and informative series of podcasts, brought to you by MetaSwitch, brings together industry analysts, technology experts, and service providers to discuss how carriers are transforming their networks and their businesses to benefit from the opportunities offered by multi-service, packet based technologies. Topics covered include IMS, softswitching, VoIP, triple-play ...