Madrid, Spain and Richardson, Texas, US, Feb. 9, 2021: Telefónica, Mavenir and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) are working on a pre-commercial managed Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity service to be offered by Telefónica using Mavenir’s packet core solution and AWS’s Cloud infrastructure.
Telefonica said in a press release that the objective of this exercise was to “reinvent the way IoT connectivity services were delivered”, reducing cost and latency by combining Cloud technology with cellular connectivity to provide Telefónica customers in any country with a local shortcut to the internet from the nearest AWS region.
The service will be managed through Telefonica Tech’s IoT KITE platform, which provides a simple interface accessible from anywhere via the Web. The other option is APIs so that industrial, manufacturing, public sector and automotive customers can better manage and control their IoT connectivity.
By running Mavenir’s Cloud native functions on AWS, Telefónica gains agility to rapidly introduce new features and can provide its customers with a consistent experience anywhere in the world, reducing time to market compared to traditional manual deployments and creating a service that scales much better both up and down, which is critical for IoT applications. Telefónica uses CICD tools to manage the service from end to end and automate how its components are integrated, deployed and operated.
“Telefonica is developing this disruptive innovation project, convinced that it will help us to maintain the IoT leadership reached with Kite Platform. Kite is much more than an IoT connectivity management platform and improves the whole IoT ecosystem dimensions, from the device to the cloud. Cloud-native point of presences will give a complete response to IoT customers with large bases of globally deployed devices”, said Carlos Carazo, CTO IoT & Big Data at Telefónica Tech in a written statement.
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