Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier and Orange International Carriers are currently cooperating on proofs of concept (POCs) that will significantly enhance IPX services.
With the increasing global reach of 4G LTE and VoLTE, and the expansion of technologies such as NB-IoT, 5G or LTE-M, it is clear that the existing IPX ecosystem must evolve. This is especially true in the area of critical IoT, where use cases such as remote surgery, autonomous cars or real-time industry necessitate extremely high quality and reliability.
Orange International Carriers and Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier are carrying out the POCs on KPIs and IPX HUB breakouts. The KPI POC aims to establish and validate end-to -end performance indicators using blockchain technology. The idea is for IPX providers to share the data they receive from monitoring their networks in a joint database. Implementing blockchain would eliminate concerns about subsequent manipulation because every transaction would be directly apparent. Privacy issues would also be non-existent as the data could be viewed only by exceptions.The second POC relates to optimizing system architecture for regional peering. If IPX providers agree to share and thus enable direct interconnection instead of home routing, IoT data traffic could be immensely accelerated. This would provide benefits for all involved as it would also reduce costs as well as significantly improve latency and round-trip delay.
In addition to the POCs, Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier is developing a new IPX product called Premium IPX. The company says the new IPX innovation will deliver badly needed end-to-end SLAs and QoS and improve KPIs.
Rolf Nafziger, SVP, Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier
Orange has already proved its value as a partner during the launch of a joint high-definition voice product across France and Germany.
Emmanuel Rochas, CEO of Orange International Carriers
IPX is already a key technology and it is set to take on even more significance as the 5G roll-out gathers momentum in the near future.
