NEWS
IRESS expands Open integration
approach for XPLAN
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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.
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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.”
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