Cloud-Enabled Global Telco Services
Key Points
- Travelping builds network and operator services software and chose IBM Cloud as the only platform capable of hosting the required horizontal services across the cloud.
- While consumer benefits include faster downloads and larger video streams, carriers need ultra‑low‑latency use cases—like vehicle‑to‑vehicle communication in sub‑millisecond timeframes—that demand new, distributed telco infrastructure beyond simple software updates.
- By moving 90 % of the telco stack to the cloud, carriers can avoid maintaining their own data‑center equipment and deploy resources anywhere while still complying with local regulations.
- IBM Cloud enables global deployment, illustrated by Travelping’s German team launching a service in South Korea, leveraging IBM engineers’ hands‑on networking support in addition to APIs.
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# Cloud-Enabled Global Telco Services **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYUGlycvdg4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYUGlycvdg4) **Duration:** 00:02:13 ## Summary - Travelping builds network and operator services software and chose IBM Cloud as the only platform capable of hosting the required horizontal services across the cloud. - While consumer benefits include faster downloads and larger video streams, carriers need ultra‑low‑latency use cases—like vehicle‑to‑vehicle communication in sub‑millisecond timeframes—that demand new, distributed telco infrastructure beyond simple software updates. - By moving 90 % of the telco stack to the cloud, carriers can avoid maintaining their own data‑center equipment and deploy resources anywhere while still complying with local regulations. - IBM Cloud enables global deployment, illustrated by Travelping’s German team launching a service in South Korea, leveraging IBM engineers’ hands‑on networking support in addition to APIs. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYUGlycvdg4&t=0s) **Cloud‑Enabled Telco Service Deployment** - Hogan Winklemann describes how Travelping uses IBM Cloud to host distributed, ultra‑low‑latency telco infrastructure—allowing carriers to deploy services such as sub‑millisecond vehicle communication globally while adhering to local regulations. ## Full Transcript
My name is Hogan Winklemann,
founder of the company called Travelping.
We are entirely focused on network services
and operator services, developing software for that,
for many, many years now.
We have the advantage that the network services we use,
which are doing different things, and just IT services,
they need to communicate to each other,
and IBM Cloud was the only platform we can find these days
where we can deploy such horizontal services in the cloud.
What it means for the consumer is more speed,
faster downloads, bigger videos, etc.
But this is not the challenge for the carrier.
The challenge for the carrier are other use cases
like making a car communicating to another car
in sub-milliseconds to avoid an accident.
This needs totally different deployment,
architectures, and topologies,
which cannot be solved
by just running a new software release.
So, we need to create
another infrastructure for telco services,
which needs to go into the field
and which needs to be distributed.
The Cloud is the foundation for that.
So, you don't need to start to mount telco equipment
in own data centers anymore
because 90% of the stack is available in the Cloud.
You can use resources wherever you want to go.
This is one of the huge advantages that global carriers,
or the local carriers can act globally,
but fulfilling the local regulations.
And because a company from Germany
can deploy in South Korea,
which is one example we have done on IBM Cloud.
And deploying the service last year in South Korea
was about talking to IMB engineers,
fixing some networking problems for us
and this first, was a great experience.
It's not just an API, it's also API with a human.
With people helping you if it's really required.
Just was great.
A major experience,
and we got a service we need.