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Metaswitch believes sharing the Project Calico code base will encourage more industry innovation and help today's network operators evolve into software telcos. The company is in the process of working with a variety of partners to form an ecosystem that will support technology interoperability and shared expertise to help network operators build solutions using Project Calico.

"While we focus on data plane acceleration to enable NFV, the scalability of virtual network control plane solutions must also be addressed. Project Calico appears to address this scalability, enabling [virtualized network functions] VNFs to communicate without the complexity and limitations of VLANs or overlay schemes," says Eric Carmès, founder and CEO of 6WIND. "Our 6WINDGate packet processing software complements Project Calico by accelerating Layer 3 forwarding so as to deliver the highest data plane performance, adding another dimension of scalability to the solution."

"We were already impressed by Metaswitch's Project Clearwater. Our collaboration enabled instant IMS deployment, integration and scaling," says Maarten Ectors, Ubuntu strategy director. "Calico is even more ambitious. Ubuntu is happy to extend our strategic partnership and collaborate on instantly deploying, integrating and scaling Calico in OpenStack with Juju."

"Cloud networking today suffers from a lot of complexity that has value in only a handful of use cases," says Truman Boyes, a network scientist at Bloomberg LP. "Project Calico takes out the excess complexity and provides a solution that is more scalable, more efficient and far easier to configure and troubleshoot. We're really excited about the possibilities of Project Calico."

"The architecture behind Calico is a wonderful demonstration of the networking model that will dominate the next generation of large-scale data centers," says Daniel Siders, CEO of Flynn. "We're delighted that Metaswitch has shared their work with the community and look forward to collaborating to spread adoption of this new model."

Neuron Initiative
Project Calico is part of Metaswitch's Neuron Initiative, a path toward intelligent network function virtualization for network operators. The Neuron Initiative delivers a framework for NFV by combining a foundation for intelligent virtualization with a realistic approach to SDN-centric, high-scale data center and wide area infrastructures that meet both the technical and business challenges of this emerging carrier architecture. For more on Metaswitch's Neuron Initative, please visit: http://www.metaswitch.com/nfv.

About Metaswitch Networks
Metaswitch is powering the transformation of communication networks into a cloud-based, software-centric future. The company develops openly programmable solutions that run on standard hardware or in virtualized environments and act as the key control points in elastic voice, video and data networks. In its 30-year history, Metaswitch has helped hundreds of service providers worldwide advance their infrastructures, retain their customers, extend their brands and reduce their costs through every major network transformation. For more information, please visit: http://www.metaswitch.com.