Broadband Success Partners, in partnership with Alianza, has published a new whitepaper: Service Provider (R)evolution: Switch to Cloud Communications Platform. The paper explores how service providers can ditch the switch and use a cloud communications platform to be better prepared to succeed in this next decade of VoIP and UC.

With the acquisitions of the VoIP 1.0 softswitch vendors, including BroadSoft, GENBAND, and Metaswitch, communication service providers are asking: what is the future of my VoIP softswitch network? Is my current supplier the one that can take me to the web-scale, cloud-centric future?

It had a good life, but it’s time for a softswitch replacement. For many technological innovations, what was considered state-of-the-art 15 or 20 years go has now gotten to the point where end of life is looming large. Softswitches are no exception. They may morph to a virtual form, but in reality the risks are...

As VoIP 1.0 softswitches near end-of-life, service providers face decisions on how to address a softswitch migration and evolve their voice networks to be more agile, competitive, and profitable. There’s a softswitch migration coming, so what are the replacement options? What is the role of the cloud-based vs cloud-building solutions?