Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 24 | Page 7

NEWS IRESS expands Open integration approach for XPLAN I RESS has announced that clients will be able to easily allow third party software providers to directly access and integrate with XPLAN. The announcement is part of IRESS Open, which will see IRESS expand the number of integrations available to clients by making access to IRESS’ existing APIs simpler and easier. Under IRESS Open, clients will be able to integrate XPLAN with third party applications in two ways: • Standard integrations – a new approach where clients can directly engage with third party providers and integrate XPLAN to a third-party application simply and directly. These integrations will facilitate the transfer of data with the third-party application, rely on a clients’ permission and do not require product development • Custom integrations – continuing IRESS’ existing approach of comprehensively integrating third party and client software. This approach sees IRESS and the third-party provider working together to develop and embed functionality within the user interface Aaron Knowles, IRESS’ Group Executive – Product, said the combination of standard and custom integrations will provide increased choice for clients seeking integrations with third parties. “At the same time, we are experiencing increased demand from clients who want to be able to directly connect a third-party application to their IRESS product – without product development work needed to be undertaken,” he said. ///////////////// Nokia powers optical service on Telecom Egypt’s Delta Backbone Network T elecom Egypt has adopted Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine (PSE) technology to double backbone capacity on its Delta Region DWDM backbone network. Commercial deployment of the new high- speed service started in June and represents the first 200G long distance, single carrier transmission service in Africa. With growth in demand for mobile video and ultra-broadband services, Telecom Egypt upgraded its current Nokia 1830 PSS backbone network. The network capacity increase brings higher-rate broadband services to fixed customers, as well as higher data rates for LTE mobile subscribers. Telecom Egypt is upgrading its backbone network using the Nokia 500G DWDM Muxponder, a programmable card that provides wavelength capacities from 50G to 250G per line port. Based on Nokia’s www.intelligentcio.com Photonic Service Engine (PSE) coherent digital signal processor, this programmability will allow Telecom Egypt to provision and tune the wavelength capacity per optical route to ensure that its network is operated at peak performance, capacity and lowest cost-per-gigabit. Ahmed El-Beheiry, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for Telecom Egypt, said: “Doubling capacity on our existing backbone allows us to offer high-speed broadband and LTE services in addition to 100GE services for mobile operators, while reducing costs.” INTELLIGENTCIO 7