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April 2017

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Can a Class 4 Softswitch run in the Cloud?

April 25, 2017


Can a Class 4 softswitch really run in the cloud?  This was a question I got at Mobile World Congress from a prospect because he was questioning whether a core telecom infrastructure node can actually run in the Cloud / AWS. The answer is yes, for sure - the networks have improved so much, and AWS has been running many mission critical, latency critical apps outside of telecom that a switch can certainly run in AWS. In fact, we have made the Dialogic NGN Softswitch and IMS MGCF (Dialogic ControlSwitch System) run on AWS and have already sold it and deployed it with customers.

Software Media Servers Help CPaaS Offerings Such as GENBAND Kandy

April 18, 2017

Cloud communications are giving customers deployment options they never had before. Big data centers running ‘you name it’ communications functions and software are giving customers pay–as-you-go and subscription purchase options for their communications needs, thus reducing upfront CAPEX expenses. 

Within that paradigm, platform as a service offerings such as Genband Kandy give these customers the ability to create their own applications.

Is Cloud Infrastructure Swallowing Up NFV?

April 11, 2017



Service Providers want the infrastructure to be able to scale up (and down), they want to move CAPEX to OPEX, and they want lower overall costs.  In other words, they want the same benefits, the same end game as “True NFV,” but possibly obtain this from running an infrastructure Virtual Machine in a cloud such as Amazon EC2.

And voila, we have telecom infrastructure running on Amazon web services.  This is easier to do.

Cloud-Based Telecom Infrastructure Evolves

April 4, 2017

There is no doubt that telecom infrastructure is moving to the cloud.  Over the past 20 years, the move from purpose built hardware to software running on COTS servers has yielded measurable benefits to service providers, such as lower costs and improved serviceability.  The next natural step forward from COTS is running the software-based infrastructure in the cloud because additional benefits will continue. The benefits of cloud-based infrastructure are as follows:

  • CAPEX Savings (plus the ability to move expenditures to OPEX)
  • OPEX Savings
  • Accelerating Service Velocity

For more details on the benefits of cloud-based infrastructures, read our white paper.

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