InMobiles,
a leading ICT company, has proudly
introduced during 2018's MWC in Barcelona, its latest technology in the
Telecommunication and Network Capability sectors Apollo
Considered as an Open Services
Gateway Apollo 's model
library holds services applications platform, that can be used to manage
services and their dependencies.
“Apollo”
provides a standard that is specified and implemented by constantly growing
ecosystem. Its modular and dynamic model reduces operational costs and
integrates multiple services and devices in a networked environment even with
different hardware, resources and communication protocols.
InMobiles,
decided to launch their new platform
to help carriers in the first place who were struggling to launch the core
network infrastructure product that is considered as a value-added product.
CEOs and CMOs who are responsible for the launching and increase of revenues
from new products were suffering the most.
During his interview with Telecom Review,
CEO Charbel Litany explained how this platform benefits operators, service
developers, and end users.
"“ Apollo”will
shock everyone,"
He said, confident that it will
transform the whole industry.
“Apollo”will be integrated
with the mobile operator's network elements through the Apollo Core layer which
directly communicates with the upper layer called Apollo Connect. This layered
architecture provides high scalability and convergence so any service provider
or service developer won't interface directly with the operator network but
with the Apollo.
"Many vendors were trying to deliver innovative
services and products. However, the launching process was taking not less than
nine months which is agonizing for service owners. To solve this problem and
empower the CEOs and CMOs, we tried to eliminate the resources' involvement in
the services launching process and built a solution as an infrastructure that
we name “ Apollo
”, Charbel Litany explained.
“Apollo”was introduced to
solve challenges hampering the launch of new innovative products, such as High
service CAPEX due to vendor lock-in, long time to market for new service
delivery and lack of innovative services.
The platform can host third-party
services and allow instant changing of service logic. This concept helps
telecom operators separate service purchasing from platform purchasing, and use
Internet resources to serve their customers. Meanwhile, the service developers
get benefits from service sales/revenue. hrough
“Apollo”OSG, the operator
can establish a WIN-WIN-WIN ecosystem for the operator, service developers, and
end users.
"In the past, launching a service required a long
process including legal agreement, commercial discussion, security assessment,
technical integration and finally UAT which takes around nine months. “ Apollo
”Core already has this part covered, so service developers only have to go
through the last 2 phases from integration to UAT."
“Apollo”
helps as well telecom operators to benefit from mature developers who are
already familiar with JAVA and JSLEE and eliminate service vendor lock-in. It
is also very flexible as it allows telecom operators to buy and load RAs as per
their network environment requires.
" Launching the service will only take two days to
one week", said Litany when asked about the benefits of
this new platform.
Operators can get the revenue
generating service right after the platform delivery. They don't have to wait
for 3rd party service vendors to develop and deliver services. Another
advantage is that if a group has several affiliates, the Core will be
integrated into all affiliates and the developer will do his job once in the
cloud.
“Apollo”
OSG solution is compatible with mainstream NFVI (Network functions
virtualization Infrastructure) vendors, and it has already been tested and
passed the validation cloud environment. State-of-the-art technologies and
methodologies such as Docker and DevOps are applied in the system designing and
operating processes. Other technologies such as SDN and big data can be
integrated into the platform to facilitate a more agile and profitable
platform.
"The accessibility to operators' nodes that this
initiative will give to developers will enhance the entrepreneurship mentality
and promote creativity," he
concluded.
InMobiles
CEO
concluded by announcing that this platform will be adopted soon after MWC
2018 and will be presented as an academic platform to train startups and
developers to use “Apollo's
RA so that they can create the services themselves and introduce them to
the operators' market.