Starhome Selects Metaswitch for IMS Technology

LONDON: Mobile network operators are seeing rapid growth in subscribers and services, and are under immense pressure to provide a high quality, seamless user experience. In this highly competitive market, Starhome use Metaswitch’s IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) protocol software products to offer end users seamless movement from network to network.

As it adds in a press release, Starhome is using Metaswitch’s DC-SIP protocol software product in its Mobile2IP solution, which enables seamless mobile communication on any IP device, and allows users to route incoming calls to their IP Soft Phone, GSM phone, or both, according to location and their preferences.

Starhome is using Metaswitch’s DC-Diameter protocol software product in its Roaming Control solution, which provides roamers with pricing packages and notifications regarding their tariffs and usage in real time.

Starhome is also taking advantage of Metaswitch’s flexible IMS protocol software architecture in various ongoing IMS research projects.

“Being able to use a common IMS protocol infrastructure across a broad range of products and across multiple platforms was a huge win for us,” said Shlomo Wolfman, Starhome’s COO. “Metaswitch’s IMS products are so widely deployed, and have such extensive interoperability exposure, that we could focus on maximizing our products’ roaming capabilities without worrying about connecting to other devices or services when we deployed.”

"Having the leading player in roaming solutions select our IMS products is a major vote of confidence," said Clive Partridge, General Manager of Metaswitch’s Network Protocols Division. "We are very happy to be working with Starhome on such leading edge products, and to be part of their roaming services evolution.”