Barcelona: Mobile World Congress 2023. Chapter 1: Telecs & APIs

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2023-03-02

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The GSMA, a global telecom employer and organizer of the Mobile World Congress 2023 that kicked off this Monday in Barcelona, has announced an initiative that seeks to universalize and standardize developer access to network programming.

This is the GSMA Open Gateway, a framework based on open APIs — codes that facilitate and protocolize communication between two or more applications — which was created with the support of 21 operators. “The move represents a paradigm shift in the way the telecommunications industry designs and delivers services in the world of the API economy.”

In reality, this GSMA Open Gateway is a global initiative of telecoms from around the world that have agreed to convert networks into digital service platforms with which developers and creators can take advantage of and optimize their capabilities in the deployment of new technologies that take advantage of the resources and possibilities of these networks.

This initiative will be discussed from the first to the last day of the fair, as it is the most important contribution of this year’s Fair, a contribution that will mark a before and after in the relationship between ferns and developers. The GSMA, now led by the CEO of Telefónica, José María Álvarez Pallete, will present various demonstrations on the different days of the fair with the possibilities offered by this Open Gateway.

Some of the use cases contemplate user experiences, such as an immersive concert that could have been designed taking advantage of the standardized APIs for access and configuration of networks related to the location and authentication of mobile devices, or a video game experience offered by Orange. , Telefónica or Vodafone with the Quality on Demand API.

The APIs that are universalized are developed and published in CAMARA, an open source project led by the Linux Foundation in collaboration with the GSMA. These APIs between telecoms and developers can be deployed quickly, with developer friendly tools and softwareized utilities.
Álvarez-Pallete himself, president of the GSMA and executive president of Telefónica, has emphasized how Open Gateway will activate “different access points to ultra-broadband networks”, which will mean “a catalyst for immersive technologies and Web3”. “By federating these open APIs” and taking advantage of the interoperability that the telcos adhere to with this initiative, “cloud operators and providers will be truly integrated to enable a new world of possibilities.” Collaboration between telcos and cloud providers will be “crucial” for this new digital ecosystem, according to Pallete.

In that sense, Ishwar Parulkar, Head of Technology for the Telecommunications Industry at AWS, believes that this GSMA Open Gateway is “a significant step that enriches the experience of developers in the cloud.” “Developers who already use more than 200 services on AWS will also be able to use telco APIs, which opens doors for the community to create new applications, and for telcos to find new consumption and monetization models for their networks.” “By applying the concept of interconnection for operators, developers will be able to take advantage of the technology to create services related to identity authentication, cybersecurity or billing, with the possibility of integrating these services with all networks globally,” he adds. Mats Granryd, CEO of the GSMA.

“It is a profound change in the way we design and deploy services,” he stresses, and equates this milestone with the harmonization that telecommunications companies achieved in 1987 when representatives of companies from 13 countries managed to standardize services and the right to access networks of telephony for the class of customers who travel and use roaming.

The first APIs that will be framed in this Open Gateway are 8 and favor the deployment of services to prevent SIM card spoofing, high-quality content retransmission, device status check, multifactor authentication, or the location of terminals connected to a network, among other issues.

The MWC 2023 that begins this Monday in Barcelona will become the edition in which the use cases that are possible with this universalization of APIs to networks will be analyzed and deepened.

The GSMA, a global telecom employer and organizer of the Mobile World Congress 2023 that kicked off this Monday in Barcelona, has announced an initiative that seeks to universalize and standardize developer access to network programming.
This is the GSMA Open Gateway, a framework based on open APIs — codes that facilitate and protocolize communication between two or more applications — which was created with the support of 21 operators.

This development represents a paradigm shift in the way the telecommunications industry designs and deploys services in the world of the API economy.”

In reality, this GSMA Open Gateway is a global initiative of telecoms from around the world that have agreed to convert networks into digital service platforms with which developers and creators can take advantage of and optimize their capabilities in the deployment of new technologies that take advantage of the resources and possibilities of these networks.
The initiative will mark the first day of this year’s Mobile World Congress, and probably the rest of the fair as a whole. The GSMA, now led by the CEO of Telefónica, José María Álvarez Pallete, will present various demonstrations on the different days of the fair with the possibilities offered by this Open Gateway.

Some of the use cases contemplate user experiences, such as an immersive concert that could have been designed taking advantage of the standardized APIs for access and configuration of networks related to the location and authentication of mobile devices, or a video game experience offered by Orange. , Telefónica or Vodafone with the Quality on Demand API.

The APIs that are universalized are developed and published in CAMARA, an open source project led by the Linux Foundation in collaboration with the GSMA. These APIs between telecoms and developers can be deployed quickly, with developer friendly tools and softwareized utilities.
Álvarez-Pallete himself, president of the GSMA and executive president of Telefónica, has emphasized how Open Gateway will activate “different access points to ultra-broadband networks”, which will mean “a catalyst for immersive technologies and Web3”. “By federating these open APIs” and taking advantage of the interoperability that the telcos adhere to with this initiative, “cloud operators and providers will be truly integrated to enable a new world of possibilities.” Collaboration between telcos and cloud providers will be “crucial” for this new digital ecosystem, according to Pallete.

In that sense, Ishwar Parulkar, Head of Technology for the Telecommunications Industry at AWS, believes that this GSMA Open Gateway is “a significant step that enriches the experience of developers in the cloud.” “Developers who already use more than 200 services on AWS will also be able to use telco APIs, which opens doors for the community to create new applications, and for telcos to find new consumption and monetization models for their networks.” “By applying the concept of interconnection for operators, developers will be able to take advantage of the technology to create services related to identity authentication, cybersecurity or billing, with the possibility of integrating these services with all networks globally,” he adds. Mats Granryd, CEO of the GSMA.

“It is a profound change in the way we design and deploy services,” he stresses, and equates this milestone with the harmonization that telecommunications companies achieved in 1987 when representatives of companies from 13 countries managed to standardize services and the right to access networks of telephony for the class of customers who travel and use roaming.

The first APIs that will be framed in this Open Gateway are 8 and favor the deployment of services to prevent SIM card spoofing, high-quality content retransmission, device status check, multifactor authentication, or the location of terminals connected to a network, among other issues.

The MWC 2023 that begins this Monday in Barcelona will become the edition in which the use cases that are possible with this universalization of APIs to networks will be analyzed and deepened.

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