OpenCloud participates in Spark vVoLTE proof of concept

OpenCloud’s Rhino Sentinel VoLTE Application Server has been used by Spark, formerly Telecom New Zealand, for the communications service provider’s (CSP’s) virtualised VoLTE (vVoLTE) proof of concept.

The project went from concept on paper to a fully-functioning, fully-virtualised VoLTE, virtualised IMS and NFV infrastructure in less than 14 weeks. It demonstrated a range of voice and video-calling services between VoLTE handsets, from VoLTE to SIP soft-clients, as well as communication with legacy devices to prove network convergence.

Spark’s project team included three vendor partners. Cisco Systems, which provided the virtualised network infrastructure, management and packet core functions, and Metaswitch, which supplied the virtualised IMS functions. The virtualised VoLTE MMTel and SCC functions were delivered by OpenCloud Rhino Sentinel VoLTE.

In a pre-cursor to the project, OpenCloud demonstrated the potential and agility of virtualised VoLTE by making a same-day delivery of its VoLTE TAS with Metaswitch’s vIMS on an Amazon EC2 instance provided by Spark. The ease and low-cost at which new virtualised systems can be created enables many individuals, each with their own personal test network, to deploy, test and innovate faster. Enabling agility and DevOps with this technology greatly accelerates the journey to live deployment.

“We selected OpenCloud on the strength of its VoLTE proposition and their leading position in virtualised VoLTE,” said David Havercroft, the chief operating officer of Spark. “The speed and flexibility the platform affords us has been critical in the development of Spark’s new virtualised VoLTE solution. It’s great to work with a New Zealand-born partner, and one that shares our passion for driving this technology forwards.”

David Long, the vice president of engineering and a director and co-founder of OpenCloud, added: “OpenCloud’s products are designed to enable agile evolution which has previously been a long-term barrier for CSPs. We are delighted to help leading CSPs such as Spark accelerate the pace of innovation to deliver further value to their customers. The transition to VoLTE is a prime opportunity for such transformation.”

Earlier this year, OpenCloud was part of the vendor team that enabled Serbian mobile operator VIP Mobile to conduct a demonstration of fully virtualised VoLTE delivered over a live LTE network, claiming a world first.

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