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VoLTE | MAVENIR

Pardeep Kohli, President and CEO, Mavenir

The Service
Revolution

The time is now for network operators to not just virtualize, but
revolutionize. The switch to all-IP LTE and IMS networks based upon NFV and
SDN architectures is bringing revolutionary change to mobile operator
services and the vendor supply market. The underlying transformation,
driven by software methodologies, will impact every aspect of the mobile
operator ecosystem – starting with voice, the most fundamental yet most
constrained telephony service.

MAKING VOICE PORTABLE IS A service into a truly portable and seamless necessary tools for operators to incubate and anticipate expanded offerings, including
CATALYST FOR CHANGE service across devices, networks, and host new solutions that lead to new revenue video calling and video interoperability.
geographical boundaries. opportunities.
In a connected world, we can’t expect voice Moving forward, we’ll also begin to see the
service to stay tied to a single device with a Similarly, NFV and SDN provide the Here, too, is where virtualization as an introduction of new services and new multi-
single phone number. Smart apps offer a separation of software from the underlying enabling technology will dramatically reduce network and multi-device access to services.
diversity that impacts our lives in a myriad of hardware. They drive operational efficiencies the cost and time to implement new mobile Because VoLTE is inherently an all-IP network,
ways, from touch to non-touch, wearable to and reduce capital and operational expenses, operator services. Customer expectations operators can move beyond delivering service
hearable, and handy personal devices to fixed while transitioning network services to a have changed as well, driven by the to only those users connected to their network
appliances. Voice calls shouldn’t be restricted standardized commodity infrastructure. smartphone revolution, an app-driven or roaming partner network. Connection
to phone-to-phone calling with a finite Regardless of the hosting mechanism – environment, and the power of digital and types, devices, and geography will also no
beginning and ending. Rigid usage hypervisors-based virtual machines or social media – all of which have combined to longer be limiting factors.
marginalizes their potential to be part of container-based applications – the deliver a constant stream of new features and
users’ everyday lives, despite the universal virtualization process externalizes the must-have capabilities. With virtualization The service revolution will not end with
reach of operators’ services. Until now. management of network nodes and makes it technologies as the basis for service VoLTE. On the network of the future,
possible to program their utilization. And deployment and operation, operators can operators will be able to introduce ideas such
The VoLTE ecosystem and accompanying though their scope is slightly different, both innovate more rapidly, experiment more as “second party pays” and communication
software networks provide operators with a NFV and SDN separate both network and freely, and ultimately succeed in less time services embedded in websites. It will allow
platform for change and opportunity, routing function software logic from their with greater frequency. The goal will be to them to provide a wholesale infrastructure to
delivering access to technology that enables deployed hardware, and provide create network services that are both reliable enterprises and other businesses, and create
them to adapt to changing customer lifestyles programmability and automation of the and dynamic, and offer users the benefits of new revenue streams and business
with greater flexibility, and to build services deployment and management of network Internet technologies with the security and opportunities not previously available. At the
that address real-life needs. VoLTE provides services. This enables fast, efficient rollout of privacy of a trusted network operator. same time, there will be new communication
numerous technological and cost benefits, network services and enhancements, with services replacing or converging legacy
such as spectral efficiency, faster call setup minimal disruption and easy scalability. VOLTE AND BEYOND touch-points with hyper-productivity
times, HD voice, and more. It also directs solutions that better meet customer needs.
operators toward an all-IP network for THE NETWORK OF THE FUTURE WILL 2014 was a transformative year for VoLTE.
delivery of their core services, which BE BUILT ON SOFTWARE Early adopters proved the feasibility of VoLTE is an inflection point where Internet
fundamentally changes the reachability of VoLTE implementation and validated many technology and telecommunications services
those services. Adding VoLTE capabilities to NFV- and SDN- of its technical and business benefits. And come together to underpin a wide range of new
based networks powers the service delivery several operators worldwide took the first operator services. We believe the right portfolio
VoLTE allows operators to separate the revolution to drive new operator business steps toward VoLTE as their new service of services can drive operator networks of the
services they offer from the network models. While baseline VoLTE provides model. As they become increasingly future, become the catalyst for changing service
technologies over which those services are tremendous service upgrades, it can’t be comfortable with their service rollout, we delivery models, and make core operator
accessed. enhanced for new service dimensions if it’s services, beginning with voice, truly portable.
‘boxed in’ like legacy 2G/3G voice services.
IP technology enables operators to fully The mobile marketplace is intensely
participate in the disaggregation of services competitive, and traditional service providers
and access them in the same way that Skype, need to evolve to maintain their relevance to
Viber, WhatsApp, and others pioneered their customers. The software application
Internet services. VoLTE is the catalyst for model is relevant only if VoLTE is
change for mobile operators, due to the all-IP implemented as a platform that inherently
nature of LTE and IMS core networking uses suitable software design patterns to
technologies. Operator deployment of VoLTE handle flexible call models, manage multiple
services will not only help improve the user endpoints and identities logic, and support
experience, but also provide the means for multi-modal enhancements. Having an end-
operators to change their business model and to-end software network provides the
innovate new services. With the VoLTE
platform, mobile operators can turn voice

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