OpenCloud and mLife Announce Pan-European Partnership in Key Growth Markets
July 30 2009,
Cambridge, UK, 30th July 2009 – OpenCloud and mLife Sp z.o.o. have formed a strategic, pan-European partnership to help network operators bring a new generation of services to their customer base. mLife’s portfolio of new self care and person-to-person applications delivered on OpenCloud’s JAIN SLEE platform enables operators to provide new tailored and attractive services to their end customers at lower cost and with greater performance.
mLife offers a broad range of applications and solution components to enable operators to grow market share in consumer and enterprise segments. For example, pre-paid voice and SMS, call control, self care through messaging and voice response systems, and top-up recharge services.
OpenCloud Rhino offers a truly carrier-grade platform for delivery of mLife JAIN SLEE (JSLEE) applications. Rhino was designed specifically for the telecommunication industry using the open Java standard JSLEE to stimulate innovation and interoperability. This partnership provides network operators with a competitive alternative to their existing solutions delivered on legacy Intelligent Network (IN) infrastructures. Furthermore, it will support ongoing and future migrations to next generation networks.
To shorten product development and delivery lifecycles, mLife required a platform with in-built telco-grade scale and availability, avoiding the need to develop these features for each new application. Consequently, mLife can provide its customers with lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by negating the need to undertake extensive development and testing for each new application or enhancement to existing applications.
“mLife needed a platform to be able to respond to customer's requirements and to innovate in the voice and SMS domains,” said Zbigniew Opęchowski, CEO from mLife. “The OpenCloud Rhino platform provided us with the call control flexibility and the resilience and scalability demanded by our customers. In addition, using OpenCloud's platform we can deliver products to market far more quickly and with substantively less software code needing to be developed, therefore reducing the project risk.”
“The increasing trend for customer self service and the continued growth in person-to-person communications continues to drive the need for innovation in these areas. mLife is a well respected and established supplier of IN-network telecoms solutions and represents further endorsement of JAIN SLEE and OpenCloud by innovative services for telecom operators. We’re delighted that mLife has now become a part of our extensive Partner Ecosystem,” said Jeff Gordon, CEO from OpenCloud.
About OpenCloud
OpenCloud provides the telecommunications industry with Rhino – a real-time application server for agile development, deployment and efficient management of person-to-person communication services. OpenCloud Rhino is a high performance, genuinely carrier-grade service execution environment for traditional and Telco 2.0 services on TDM and IP-based networks It uses commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software to deliver service layer agility to networks at a radically lower price-point than traditional solutions from network equipment providers.
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OpenCloud is headquartered in Cambridge, UK with R&D, Engineering and Support in New Zealand and Spain and branch offices in the US, Singapore and Japan.
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About mLife
mLife offers innovative solutions in the field of mobile value-added services. It develops modern mobile applications to help enterprises maximise customer reach by extending their business profile through completely new and effective channels. The company delivers it's applications on industry standard platforms embracing web and mobile technologies. Since 2007 mLife has been part of the NFI Midas Group from which it has access to a broad base of expertise in digital entertainment, mobile content and media.
For more information please go to www.mlife.pl
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