Deutsche Telekom has awarded Texas-based Mavenir cloud-native messaging contracts driving 5G readiness across four countries in Europe.

This should aid a growing number of M2M and IoT applications enabled by 5G that will depend on messaging with features such as remote over-the-air (OTA) activation of devices, and enhanced power efficiencies as required by SMS compared with a permanent data connection.

Mavenir is a network software provider building networks with cloud-native technology that runs on any cloud. It has been awarded the contract to modernise and innovate messaging capabilities, powering a 5G readiness for Deutsche Telekom networks in Austria, Czech Republic, Greece and Slovakia.

Mavenir is implementing its fully cloud-native Message Controller (www.mavenir.com/portfolio/mavcore/messaging-solutions) across the four Deutsche Telekom properties in Europe. Mavenir’s secure messaging is designed to help operators realise revenue growth across multi-generation networks – 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G and beyond – through secured application-to-person (A2P) messaging.

In the Message Controller, Mavenir has consolidated the messaging needs in all the generations of networks in a single offering to avoid creating unnecessary complexity. Next to MMSC, SMSC, IP short message gateway (IP-SM GW) and SMS firewall features, it also includes the SMS Function (SMSF) enabling messaging over 5G networks. This suite of functions ensures a streamlined messaging experience and helps operators seamlessly sunset core legacy infrastructure. It is delivered as a fully containerised cloud-native option able to run on any cloud. This increases agility and flexibility while lowering cost, energy consumption and carbon footprint.

Mavenir’s Message Controller is ready for automation leveraging continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI-CD) tooling to reduce massively the time for deployment, upgrades and scaling. Automated software enables all preparation prior to deployment and ongoing operational management. Bundled with Mavenir’s spam and fraud prevention, it secures networks, subscribers and revenue.

“The long experience with Mavenir in the messaging area has shown that we can successfully work as partners to deliver best service to our customers,” said Tino Puch from Deutsche Telekom (www.telekom.com). “For our DT cloudification journey, we decided to continue this partnership in our European footprint. I am looking forward to the path ahead in the value-added services area.”

Ilia Abramov, vice president at Mavenir (www.mavenir.com), added: “There is huge potential to be unlocked from A2P, M2M and massive IoT messaging, and operators need to seize this opportunity and lead the market with innovative capabilities. We have a long and successful relationship with Deutsche Telekom and are proud to be their partner in this multi-country deployment.”