Quortus and ACS bring MEC to the enterprise
The two companies expect to demonstrate a proof of concept service offering at the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona.
Quortus is involved in implementing core network functions as software applications, while ACS provides products and services to Service Providers, MSOs and large enterprises. The partnership will enable services far beyond the capabilities of traditional network architectures, enhancing user experience and bringing benefits throughout the wireless ecosystem. For network operators this means more efficient use of network resources and new monetization opportunities; content distributors benefit with higher delivery speeds and lower network latencies; enterprises gain vastly improved integration between their IT and communications infrastructure; small businesses obtain access to advanced services with outstanding ease of use.
Andy Odgers, Founder and CEO of Quortus comments, “Together we are pioneering the Mobile Edge Computing ecosystem. Uniquely, our MEC solution combines control and user plane functions — enabling more services than user-plane only MEC solutions. This opens up a new world of powerful possibilities, creating an operator-friendly system that can support a raft of new capabilities ranging from local traffic offload and QoS management to genuine local VoLTE calling.”
Bob Pike, CTO at ACS, commented: “Our partnership with Quortus is a natural evolution of our two companies’ respective endeavors to leverage advanced IT and communications technologies to make a real difference in a very broad range of applications. By applying intelligence at the network edge, we simultaneously remove strain on network operators’ infrastructure and improve service and user experience.”
MEC architectures combine wireless technology with an IT-type service environment to deliver efficient communications services with ultra-low latency and high bandwidth. MEC software applications can tap into local content and information about network conditions so that traffic can be handled in an optimal way; examples include local traffic offload and caching, and video optimization.
Quortus’ ECX technology takes this principle a step further, by implementing core network functions themselves in software. The combination of these two approaches will allow service providers to truly deliver on the promise of MEC. Services are provided where they are consumed — at the network edge.
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