Enea announced that it is joining the Microsoft Azure Operator Nexus Ready program. The introduction of Enea's Telecom product portfolio will further enhance mobile operators' ability to unlock the potential of 5G and provide more choice in pre-validated solutions to ensure a faster time to deployment for solutions.

Enea's telecom products include the Stratum Network Data layer, 5G Service Engine, Subscription Manager and Policy Manager, providing a range of subscriber data management, authorization and traffic management capabilities for both 4G & 5G mobile environments.

Azure Operator Nexus Ready program provides an API layer to automate and manage network functions. The Enea network functions will integrate and validate at both the API interoperability level and the automated deployment level to provide telecom operators the option to build, host and operate these containerized functions as part of a network in a cloud or hybrid cloud environment.

As pre-validated services, the Enea network functions will be available in the Azure Marketplace.

"The integration with Microsoft Azure Operator Nexus  demonstrates Enea's commitment to multi-vendor telecom architecture, software-based solution and open interoperability.", said Osvaldo Aldao, Vice President of Product Management at Enea. Further adding, "The addition of our Stratum network data layer as an open 5G UDR & UDSF will provide the data management foundation to drive a fully cloud native architecture with  Azure Operator Nexus".

"Enea joining the Microsoft Azure Operator Nexus Ready  Program enables both network function expertise and deployment experience from their extensive portfolio", said Ross Ortega,  Vice President - Azure for Operators, "Enea's pre-validated functions in the Azure Marketplace will be an essential building block for operator networks".