Hungary’s Magyar Telekom – a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom – has selected Mavenir to deploy its cloud-native containerised Converged Packet Core.

The solution will lay the foundation for quickly and easily deploying new enterprise applications and services, taking advantage of 5G features such as low latency and network slicing. Using open architecture, it will offer network slicing with dedicated control and user plane network functions for meeting strict service level agreements.

The fully containerised solution is based on stateless microservice architecture that allows better resiliency and faster recovery in the event of network failures. It also enables the easy onboarding of users on Deutsche Telekom Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS).

Laszlo Boka, Platform and Core Services Tribe Lead at Magyar Telekom said: “It was important for us to partner with a software provider that could deliver on three main fronts: a Converged Packet Core to support all access technology integration from 2G to 5G, an open architecture that could run on our specified hardware and software platforms, and seamless integration with third-party network functions.”

Magyar Telekom will use Deutsche Telekom’s locally deployed private cloud solution. The converged architecture of Mavenir’s packet core will support 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G non-standalone (NSA), and 5G standalone (SA) modes and enable all access technologies to run on the common cloud-native platform provided by Deutsche Telekom.

Ashok Khuntia, President for Core Networks at Mavenir, said, “Working with Mobile Network Operators globally, we’ve created an agile software delivery process that accommodates specific integration and feature requirements. Integrating Mavenir’s Converged Packet Core into Magyar Telekom’s existing network will enable a fully automated network with the reliability, scale and flexibility to deliver innovative services.”

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Pan-African payments provider Cellulant is back in the news again, this time thanks to  a financial services partnership with micro, small and medium-enterprise (MSME)-focused B2B digital platform Solv Kenya.

The two companies have signed an agreement that will enable Solv Kenya’s expanding base of MSME partners to access digital payment and collections services offered by Cellulant.

Following the announcement of Solv’s commercial operations in Kenya last month, this partnership will enable MSMEs using the Solv Kenya platform to conveniently reconcile, receive and view all their payments on the go.

MSMEs employ over 15 million people in the country but they struggle with access to finance, due mainly to financiers’ limited and unclear information about their operations.

According to Sheila Kimani-Omukuba, CEO of Solv Kenya, the collaboration will enable efficient and seamless transactions for the various business enterprises in the Solv marketplace. « Processing and tracking transactions have historically been a problem for many small businesses and financial institutions have to deal with this gap,” she says.

She adds: “This partnership gives us the chance to handle financial services more quickly and effectively to support their daily operations, which supports our goal of utilizing digital capabilities to enhance MSMEs’ profitability, enable growth, and operational efficiency.”

More than 5,000 MSMEs and over ten multinational corporations have joined Solv Kenya, and the company plans to sign up 10,000 businesses by the end of the year. Cellulant has come on board as a technology payments partner.

Cellulant joins a growing list of partners in Solv Kenya’s portfolio. Through its supply chain financing solution, the platform has targeted giving over 100,000 Kenyan MSMEs access to funding by issuing over Kes 10 billion (a little under US$82,000,000) in working capital credit each year.

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