Vodafone Group confirmed that they would, jointly with TM Forum and Huawei, publish the Open API Map. The Open API Map is extracted from and refines nearly 20 new APIs and is combined with existing TM Forum's Rest API best practices, providing a unified and standardized overview of APIs for construction of a digital ecosystem.
TM Forum said that the Open API Map is a significant milestone in driving API consolidation in the telecom and other vertical industries. Firstly, Open API Map is capable of driving carriers in accelerating telecom openness. In addition, it can help SMEs and developers to effectively use and manage different APIs, resulting in direct seamless integration among telecom industries, vertical industries and developers, building up an open digital ecosystem, added TM Forum.
Chief System Architect of Vodafone Group, Lester Thomas, in an interview expressed that the Open API Map is able to resolve existing API decentralization and issues relating to structure, attracting more industrial partners to engage in the construction of API standards as well as gradually having a cross industry, cross vendor, and cross systems standardized common language.
