Microsoft Buys Metaswitch For Cloud-Based Telecoms Move, 5G Expansion ,
“As the industry moves to 5G, operators will have opportunities to advance the virtualization of their core networks and move forward on a path to an increasingly cloud-native future,” according to Khalidi.

Metaswitch’s complementary portfolio of ultra-high-performance, cloud-native communications software will expand our range of offerings available for the telecommunications industry .According to Koontz, the 5G Core market is estimated to reach about $10 billion by 2025 from its current $1 billion, “seeing impressive growth as 5G stand-alone (SA) networks begin wide scale deployments beginning in 2021”.
Metaswitch was founded in 1981 as a pioneer in next-generation voice technology and counts British Telecom, T-mobile, Swisscom, Telstra and Vodafone as its main customer .

In my opinion Norwood are in the right place at the right time , the cloud native revolution transforming the telco industry is seriously confirmed when the likes of Microsoft enter the same space , out laying serious capital . It’s all about the cloud dollars for some . The big getting bigger . One less seat required at the future auction . IMO , DYOR