Thursday, April 4, 2013

Algar - Brazilian telecom goes open source


Algar telecom goes open source

Algar telecom, leading mobile services in Brazil goes open source based on Mobicents communication platform, teaming with TeleStax (open source developer).

SAO PAULO /PRNewswire/

An innovative project in Brazil is making Linux-based middleware for mobile telecom services as easy to create as a website. Algar Telecom is the fast growing mobile network operator (MNO) in Brazil. Many MNO's around the world are now finding themselves in direct competition with international over-the-top (OTT) service providers like Skype and Google Voice. To survive, they needed to find a way to rapidly and cheaply build out new telecom services and offerings, but the existing hardware and software offer limited extensibility for new features and similarly little flexibility for interoperability with other systems. In addition, they depend on innovation as a way to reduce the high development and deployment costs associated with traditional telecom systems.

Mobicents is the leading open Source Cloud Communication Platform. It provide a run-time environment and comprehensive suite of tools for development, deployment and management of services integrating voice, video and messaging across a range of communication networks.