Itential announced a partnership with Kaloom to deliver innovative networking and
automation capabilities for communication service providers and enterprises
shifting to 5G networks. Together, both platforms will now offer customers the
ability to integrate, automate, and deploy network slicing intelligence.
Customers will become better equipped to unlock the monetization of 5G through
automation, network slicing, and virtualized network fabrics connected to the
cloud.
“For operators to extract returns on their massive 5G investments, they need
the means to offer and charge for differentiated services,” said Roy Chua,
Principal at AvidThink, a research and analyst firm. “However, many operators
worldwide are struggling to put together the underlying end-to-end
infrastructure that can power these offerings. Kaloom and Itential’s
partnership couples an agile network automation solution with a flexible
network fabric, enabling network operators to bring such services to market
much faster.”
Kaloom’s Cloud Edge Fabric solution disrupts the technical, operational, and
economics of how distributed cloud edge and data centers are built and managed.
With an embedded 5G user plane function (UPF), Kaloom’s solution enables the
virtualization of network fabric needed for telecom providers to communicate
within the larger network environment.
Itential simplifies and accelerates the deployment and automation of
multi-domain, multi-vendor network infrastructures. The Itential Automation
Platform is a low-code, cloud-native solution that seamlessly connects to any
IT system, cloud, or network technology for end-to-end automation of any
network use case, making it an ideal solution for automating and orchestrating
advanced capabilities like 5G Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) creation and 5G network
slicing.
By integrating together, Itential and Kaloom will enable communication service
providers to accelerate the creation of network fabrics, deploy 5G applications
and services, and orchestrate end-to-end network automations such as 5G
network slicing and multi-cloud networking.
“We are excited to be working closely with Itential on a shared mission to
enable telecom providers for 5G networking orchestration,” said Suresh
Krishnan, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Kaloom. “We have a strong alignment
in terms of our views of the modern network and how it should be managed.
Partnering with Itential to create new functionalities allows us to offer the
differentiation needed for leading our customers into the future.”
Itential and Kaloom will also collaborate to enable configuration of
InterPlanetary File Systems (IPFS) inside of the mobile core network to
increase access for delivering mobile traffic. Mobile gateways are the
cornerstone of the wireless network. The need for systems to run within data
centers makes Kaloom’s added functionalities essential, as they include
replication in a smaller virtualization of the network and its
components.
“Kaloom has designed their products for the modern world, and at Itential we
recognize the increased significance our partnership has, at a time when 5G
adoption is rapidly accelerating,” said Chris Wade, Co-Founder and CTO of
Itential. “Itential’s unique automation capabilities, combined with our work
with Kalooom bring enhanced network slicing capabilities and the scalability
needed to set our customers up for 5G success.”
