Alianza has introduced its new access control solution CLOUDEDGE to provide telecommunications service providers (telcos) with a way to streamline legacy voice migration to the cloud.
According to the cloud communications platform, it provides telcos with a “low-risk path” to simplifying operations, increasing network management efficiencies, and speeding up innovation.
Telcos have previously been able to setup UCaaS cloud services and move softswitch services to the cloud, but CLOUDEDGE sets itself apart by creating a path to the cloud for even the most complex legacy time-division multiplexing (TDM) infrastructure migrations, without any meaningful risk to services.
In Alianza’s related press release, it explains some of the difficulties that CLOUDEDGE will help to solve:
“For more than a decade, telcos have faced challenges in managing legacy services side-by-side with the development and delivery of net-new capabilities.
“These realities undermined revenue growth and left telcos vulnerable to competitive threats from over-the-top (OTT) competitors that were not constrained by the need to maintain network infrastructure, optimize service reliability, and deliver full-service capabilities, often in adherence with regulatory mandates.”
CLOUDEDGE Features
Alianza believes that its CLOUDEDGE solution helps telcos from a strategic and operation management perspective via a single cloud-based platform.
The solution also includes features such as support for multiple access technologies, which allows telcos to provide a broad set of customer requirements.
CLOUDEDGE allows for diverse communications protocols that enable interoperability and enhanced network connectivity.
It also facilitates reliable communications during emergencies by local voice and 911 traffic routing for session initiation protocol (SIP) and non-SIP endpoints, leading to an improved overall service.
From a financial perspective, CLOUDEDGE represents a lower total cost of ownership for telcos by consolidating a comprehensive communications portfolio into a single platform.
Greater customer operation management capabilities come through an API, with billing software and other cloud-based solutions for enhanced integrations.
The combination of these features alongside upgraded operational efficiency brings innovative services to stay ahead of the competition.
Dag Peak, Chief Product Officer of Alianza, set out what CLOUDEDGE can do for service providers: “The development of CLOUDEDGE marks a significant milestone in the journey towards the Telco 3.0 reality of modernised telco operations.
“Telcos can now embark on their transformation journey [from TDM to the cloud] with confidence, knowing they have a robust and reliable platform to support their evolving needs and propel their business forward to what’s next as innovation continues.”
Alianza describes itself as a “leading cloud communications platform for service providers”. It works to help customers increase growth, decrease costs, and turn from ‘telco’ to ‘techco’ – the latter including services beyond simply voice and data connectivity.
In November 2023, AWS and Alianza partnered to empower communications service providers (CSPs) to accelerate cloud transformations.
The agreement between AWS and CSP cloud platform Alianza intends to revolutionise how CSPs deliver and monetise voice and cloud comms services.
More recently, in March 2024, Alianza and Phonism partnered to deliver advanced device management experiences for service providers and end users.
It will reportedly empower Alianza customers with excellent deployment and configuration ease-of-use for Alianza-certified devices supported natively on its platform.
