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Metreos Corporation

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Metreos was founded in 2001 by Louis Marascio and Mark Richards to provide an IP telephony development and run-time platform to help companies build, deploy, and manage IP telephony applications.

Metreos provided both packaged applications and a set of tools for designing, developing, deploying, and managing applications deployed on IP telephony networks. Their primary customer base were large enterprises who had invested significant capital in replacing aging TDM based phone systems with new Voice-over-IP phone systems, specifically those who had chosen Cisco Systems as their VoIP vendor of choice.

Large Cisco customers began to use the Metreos product suite in 2004 with early deployments by Lehman Brothers and BearingPoint. Frustrated by the lack of support from their primary IP PBX vendor, Metreos customers were able to use the Metreos Communications Environment to customize their IP telephony deployment to their liking, often times implementing features that were lost in the transition from TDM to IP.

Recognizing that many of their large marque customers were using the Metreos product to enhance their Cisco deployment, Cisco purchased Metreos in June 2006 for $28 million USD.

Milestones

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• Metreos Corporation — Cisco completes acquisition of Metreos (6/30/06)
  Posted 5/5/09 at 6:33am
• Acquired by Cisco for $28M. (6/28/06)
  Posted 5/3/09 at 8:33am
• Metreos Corporation — MCE v2.2 Released (3/6/06)
  Posted 5/5/09 at 4:41am
• Metreos Corporation — MCE v2.1 Released (9/20/05)
  Posted 5/3/09 at 8:42am
• Metreos Corporation — BearingPoint customer announcement (8/29/05)
  Posted 5/3/09 at 8:36am
• Metreos Corporation — Lehman Brothers customer announcement (2/8/05)
  Posted 5/3/09 at 8:38am
• Received $3.8M in Series A funding. (10/14/04)
  Posted 4/29/09 at 7:27am
• Metreos Corporation — Series A Funding Closed (10/04)
  Posted 5/8/09 at 12:11pm
• Received $555k in Seed funding. (3/20/03)
  Posted 4/29/09 at 7:27am
• Metreos Corporation — Seed Funding Closed (3/15/03)
  Posted 5/8/09 at 12:10pm
• Metreos Corporation — Company Founded (1/01)
  Posted 5/8/09 at 12:11pm
• Louis Marascio, Founder and CTO added.
  Posted 4/29/09 at 7:27am
• David Wilson, VP Marketing added.
  Posted 4/29/09 at 7:27am
• Joel Fontenot, CEO added.
  Posted 4/29/09 at 7:27am
• Ben Alves, VP Sales added.
  Posted 4/29/09 at 7:27am
• Mark Richards, Founder added.
  Posted 4/29/09 at 7:27am
• Vaughan Stanford, Director of Business Development added.
  Posted 5/3/09 at 8:47am

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Products

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MCE-1200 Appliance

MCE-2400 Appliance

Metreos Communications Environment

PhoneProxy 500 Appliance

Sources

1. Cisco Systems, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Metreos and Audium (newsroom.cisco.com) [edit]
2. Company aims to improve telephones that use Internet technology (bizjournals.com) [edit]
3. Metreos lands $3.8M in funding (bizjournals.com) [edit]
4. BearingPoint Selects Metreos for VoIP Application Development; First Applications Reduce Office Space Lease Costs and Provide Superior Communications for Mobile Workforce (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
5. Lehman Brothers Selects Metreos to Speed Development and Deployment of IP Telephony Applications (findarticles.com) [edit]
6. Metreos Announces Major New Release of VoIP Communications Application Environment (sipcenter.com) [edit]
7. Metreos Announces Version 2.2 Release of VoIP Application Environment; SIP Support Enables Application Ecosystem Built On Open Standards (accessmylibrary.com) [edit]
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