MWC 2016: SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom Establish Strategic Technology and Business Partnership.

The two companies entered into a strategic partnership agreement at MWC 2016 to strengthen their global technology leadership and deliver new value to customers.

- The market-leaders of Korea and Germany will collaborate in the areas of IoT and media platform, while driving technology innovations and standardization of ICT including key 5G technologies and Network-IT Infrastructure.

- The parties also agreed to work together to bring innovative solutions and products/services to each other’s customers.

SK Telecom  and Deutsche Telekom announced today that they entered into a strategic business partnership agreement to collaborate in the fields of services, Internet of Things (IoT) and related R&D areas.

With the aim to strengthen their capabilities as ICT industry leaders and to achieve new growth through joint business opportunities in Asian and European Markets, SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom will cooperate in the global sales of innovative solutions and products and work together to lead standardization of innovative technologies, including 5G enabling technologies and SDDC (Software-Defined Data Center).

-           Cloud Streaming Solution, Pico Beamer, International Roaming

As part of the collaboration, SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom will also make joint efforts to expand markets for their solutions and products/services.

SK Telecom's technological competency with regard to Cloud Streaming* was successfully demonstrated through the solution tests conducted at Deutsche Telekom's T-Labs in December 2015. The two companies will conduct a feasibility test for its potential commercialization in Deutsche Telekom’s footprint by the second quarter of 2016. Going forward, through partnership with Deutsche Telekom, who has 6 million TV subscribers in Europe, SK Telecom expects to secure a bridgehead to enter into the European markets with its Cloud Streaming solution.

*Provided by SK Telecom’s subsidiary ENTRIX, Cloud Streaming is an innovative solution that enables even the legacy/low-end set-top boxes to support the latest user interfaces as it is built on software virtualization technologies. The solution thereby allows companies to significantly reduce costs for set-top box investment and subscriber acquisition. 

Moreover, the two companies have agreed to introduce SK Telecom’s pico beamer to Germany in the second quarter of 2016 and then to other countries in Europe. They also agreed to launch Deutsche Telekom’s in-car Wi-Fi solution in the Korean market.

SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom will also cooperate in the international roaming service area, including quality improvements, signature of Service Level Agreements and pursuit of LTE based roaming services.

-           Smart City

Another area of collaboration is in the IoT to develop innovative services in an urban setting. They are now ready to combine their efforts to mutually investigate industry leading smart city solutions. This will enable the two to serve the customer needs in the best way to make their cities smarter and to expand the related services into new markets.

-           Technology R&D

Under the partnership agreement, the two companies will pursue joint R&D activities to develop cutting-edge technologies – including 5G enabling technologies – and push for their standardization, while actively taking a part in diverse global projects to drive ICT infrastructure innovations.

In particular, through development of key 5G technologies such as network slicing and mobile edge computing, they plan to drive standardization and implementation of 5G, and identify 5G key applications.

In addition, as members of the Open Compute Project, the Facebook-led open source hardware and data center design initiative, the two companies will play proactive roles to achieve innovations in the network-IT infrastructure.

Furthermore, SK Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have joined the Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance (ngena) as founding members. ‘ngena’ is an alliance of international telecommunications companies to provide truly international network services for enterprise customers, securely and reliably from a single source. ‘ngena’ is a standalone company with independent management. It comes with a completely new business model and a new technology in a greenfield setting, sharing network assets of trusted service providers.

“The idea is to create an amazing technology partnership with tangible results. The development and exchange of new services will help both companies generate more benefit for our customers,” stated Tim Höttges, CEO of Deutsche Telekom. “But it’s also about learning from each other. We are really impressed with SK Telecom’s agility and creativity, and look forward to exchanging ideas and experiences.”

“SK Telecom is excited to enter into a strategic partnership with Deutsche Telekom, which holds a strong technology and market leadership across the globe," said Jang Dong-hyun, President and CEO of SK Telecom. "By building on each other’s strengths, we will unlock new growth opportunities and pave the way for the future ICT industry.” 

MWC 2016: Huawei and Deutsche Telekom Demonstrate 5G E2E Network Slicing Technology.

Huawei and Deutsche Telekom showed world's first 5G E2E network slicing demo on the opening day of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The joint demo was conducted in Deutsche Telekom's 5G:haus lab based in Bonn, Germany, and aims to validate network slicing technology, which can create network slice on demand in each given application scenario with high flexibility and efficiency for the future-coming diversity 5G applications.

The 5G E2E network slicing implementation, based on Huawei's service oriented architecture, has been designed to enable end-to-end network slicing through basic core network modularization and control plane/user plane separation. The core network and RAN interface are specified and implemented to support real end-to-end network slicing. For slice lifecycle management and slice monitoring, a slice manager to both the RAN and CN has been produced.

The joint demo shows the potential of the innovation of "one physical network, multiple industry service" and the flexibility and efficiency of 5G network architecture, which is one of the key enablers of business' successful collaborationwith leading partners.

"Huawei is investing in tremendous innovation efforts into 5G key enabling technology," said David Wang, president of Huawei Wireless Network. "5G network slicing can enable a unified physical network infrastructure to support multiple industry services, including mobile broadband and vertical sectors. We will devote more effort to transforming the advanced innovation technologies into the best user experience for our customers."

"Network Slicing is envisioned for 5G in order to provide an efficient enablement of the highly versatile network characteristics that will be required to connect different industries, as well as the mass mobile broadband-like connectivity that our customers will demand," adds Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, Chief Technology Officer, Deutsche Telekom. "We show that these capabilities can be provided as on-demand network services for diverging use cases."

Deutsche Telekom and Huawei collaborate in joint innovation and testing 5G system technologies, including air-interface and network architecture. Due to its 6 years of experience on 5G R&D, Huawei has achieved a wealth of experience in research and field tests. Huawei will team up with more partners in the industry to build the emerging 5G ecosystem and push forward the development of 5G.

MWC 2016 takes place in Barcelona, Spain from February 22 to 25. Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at Fira Gran Via Hall 1 and Hall 3. For more details, please visit: http://www.huawei.com/en/mwc2016

About Huawei

Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Our aim is to enrich life and improve efficiency through a better connected world, acting as a responsible corporate citizen, innovative enabler for the information society, and collaborative contributor to the industry. Driven by customer-centric innovation and open partnerships, Huawei has established an end-to-end ICT solutions portfolio that gives customers competitive advantages in telecom and enterprise networks, devices and cloud computing. Huawei's 170,000 employees worldwide are committed to creating maximum value for telecom operators, enterprises and consumers. Our innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

HUAWEI: Open ROADS to a Better Connected World

Huawei's theme of "Open ROADS to a Better Connected World" at Mobile World Congress 2016 is based on Huawei's core strategy of advancing ICT through building open, collaborative industry ecosystems that generate win-win outcomes. In the future, the world will be fully connected with people-to-people, people-to-objects and objects-to-objects connections, interactions and coordination, and this will drive a new digital business environment creating challenges and opportunities for telecom carriers. Huawei's standard for the ultimate user experience is ROADS which means: Real-time, On-demand, All-online, DIY and Social. With its leading technology products and solutions, Huawei is working together with carriers to deliver an engaging ROADS experience and implement future-proof strategic transformation to jointly build a Better Connected World.

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Deutsche Telekom has launched an M2M apps developer community

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Deutsche Telekom has launched an M2M apps developer community.

Deutsche Telekom has launched an M2M developer community to provide a means for developers to build and promote apps for what the company calls the “internet of things”.

The community provides access to APIs, programming guidelines and software development kits for building and selling M2M apps easily and quickly. Apps can then be marketed and sold on Deutsche Telekom’s M2M Marketplace. It also provides forums for developers to exchange information and ideas with each other and Deutsche Telekom experts.

An example of the kind of app that can be built using the community is a smoke detector that can be monitored online using an M2M API and which can then be meshed with an SMS API to create an SMS alert.

“Our M2M Developer Community is designed to serve as a central point of contact and exchange for M2M developers globally,” said senior VP of core telco products at Deutsche Telekom’s Digital Business Unit, Rainer Deutschmann.

The community will soon add a dedicated programming environment for building and testing M2M apps, while new APIs are being added all the time.

Deutsche Telekom launched its Developer Garden Component Marketplace across Europe in July in collaboration with mobile development marketplace Verious, providing access to app components and core telecom service APIs.

Operators back Firefox open mobile OS plans.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.

Operators back Firefox open mobile OS plans.

Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefonica and Telenor are supporting Mozilla’s planned HTML5-based platform for mobile handsets, which it was today revealed will use the Firefox OS brand.

The first devices powered by Mozilla will be manufactured by TCL (under the Alcatel One Touch brand) and ZTE, running on Qualcomm processors. Initial launches will take place in Brazil early in 2013, through the Vivo arm of Telefonica.

According to a statement, the operators are supporting Firefox OS because of “the potential of the technology to deliver compelling smartphone experiences at attainable prices.”

Mozilla first announced its intentions to move into the device platform space with its Boot to Gecko project. The company picked up support from Telefonica at the GSMA Mobile World Congress this year, when Telefonica Digital said it would work with the company to showcase an architecture where every phone feature is delivered via HTML5.

The web technology company said that it and its partners are “committed to ensuring the project is fully open and the reference implementation of the required web APIs is being submitted to W3C for standardisation.”

Matthew Key, chairman and CEO of Telefonica Digital, said: “The breadth of support for this initiative across the industry makes it clear that there is an opportunity in the market for a new, open mobile ecosystem.”