Mavenir Systems announced two Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Centers of Excellence in Bangalore, India and Shanghai, China.
These NFV centers aimed at supporting the development of NFV, Voice over LTE (VoLTE), VoWi-Fi and Rich Communications Services (RCS) deployments in the Asia Pacific region.
The strategy behind the two centers is to tap 4G deployments, which are expected to accelerate in Asia Pacific in 2014.
Operators such as Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Aircel, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are expected to ramp up 4G roll outs.
Mavenir said its Centers of Excellence focus on NFV to scale and deploy cloud-based solutions that reduce network complexity and cost, while making it easier to build capacity and add flexibility to the network.
Mavenir already has an Operations Centre of Excellence in France, VoLTE/RCS Innovation Centers in Germany and the Mavenir User Experience Centre in Croatia.
“Asia-Pac operators are either beginning to deploy 4G, or they have already deployed 4G, moving from a data-only 4G deployment to a fully converged and virtualized rich communications services offering. We expect that Mavenir’s NFV Centres of Excellence in Asia will play a role in accelerating the acceptance and deployment of virtualized Mobile Core solutions by Operators in the region,” said Idris Vasi, vice president – APAC, Mavenir.
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