COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 20,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Glide announced the
availability of its GSMA Open Gateway API beta on Google Cloud. The
beta exposes application programming interfaces (APIs) offered by
partners, including Telefonica, MASORANGE, and Enstream (a joint
venture of Canadian communications service providers Bell,Rogers,
and TELUS), aggregating their network capabilities in the Glide
platform running on Google Cloud.
This marks a major milestone, allowing Google Cloud's global
developer community to subscribe, access, and build
cutting-edge applications with communication service provider (CSP)
capabilities via simple APIs, deployed seamlessly through Google
Cloud Marketplace. This empowers developers to quickly embed new
capabilities that were previously unavailable, and create the
services, apps, and experiences of the future.
The APIs made available by the beta rely on the initiatives from
industry bodies GSMA, CAMARA, and TM Forum, and adopted by a large
community of global CSPs which aim to standardize the
commercialization of telco capabilities through APIs. This
standardization enables developer applications to run consistently
across different CSP networks and countries.
GSMA additionally supports ecosystem adoption
with Open-Gateway.com, which maps out the progress of API
implementations, and encourages alignment and additional deployment
of CAMARA compliant APIs.
The beta leverages these API standards in a live, multi-country
environment, providing developers with access to CSP capabilities
on a global scale. The large-scale coverage powering the beta is
provided by telecom partners Telefonica, MASORANGE, and Enstream.
The CSP APIs are aggregated by Glide's platform on Google Cloud,
providing a unified API that makes the partners' network
capabilities, footprint, and services seamlessly accessible to
developers.
Through Google Cloud Marketplace, telecom APIs become available
to a global developer ecosystem, deployable on GoogleCloud's
trusted, next-generation infrastructure. Google Cloud developers
can utilize these network capabilities with the same experience,
access to tool sand operating processes as any other Google Cloud
service.
Number verification and anti-fraud APIs are the
first to be made available, with more to follow. Google Cloud
enables developers to embed these APIs seamlessly, efficiently and
in an aggregated manner. The aggregation provided through these
APIs abstracts the underlying complexity of interacting with
various CSP networks directly, enabling the developers to access
and utilize these APIs through a single common interface.
Furthermore, a first globally launched solution, Magical Auth,
provides advanced and transparent second-factor authentication,
targeting the $18.1 billion
multi-factor authentication market.
Put together, these capabilities allow both telecom providers
and developers to seamlessly plug in to new opportunities offered
by each other, expanding reach and capabilities for all ecosystem
participants.
Vivek Gupta, Head, Telco
Industry, Google Cloud: "The rise of digitization and emergence of
network APIs is driving a transformation across the telecom
industry, and developers are key to this transformation. We are
excited to partner with Glide to enable new use cases and
experiences through our developer community and enable our CSP
partners to ignite new areas of monetization from their network and
data assets."
Alex Sinclair, CTO, GSMA, said: "GSMA Open Gateway was
established in 2023 and the momentum behind this initiative is very
strong. To date, we have nearly 50 operator groups signed up,
representing two thirds of the global mobile industry. It is an
incredible testament to the shared belief and urgency to act. Focus
must now be on ubiquitous delivery of frictionless CAMARA APIs for
developers. Partnerships between Glide and Google Cloud will bring
simple programmable connectivity to the Google Cloud developer
community, a huge step forward for all."
David del Val, Global Director of
Telefónica Open Gateway, said: "We are thrilled with our continued
partnership with Google to make Open Gateway available to the
Google Cloud developer ecosystem. As announced at MWC'24, we are
starting with anti-fraud APIs like number verification
and SIM Swap. This is just the beginning; more multi-telco APIs
will be available soon. By leveraging Google Cloud´s powerful
ecosystem, we aim to empower developers to create groundbreaking
solutions."
Upinder Saini, president &
CEO, EnStream: "EnStream is excited to welcome the Google Cloud
developer community looking to access Canadian telecom APIs through
Google Cloud in conjunction with Glide. Number Verify and SIM
Swap detection can now be accessed seamlessly to help fight
fraud and give customers a better user experience,"
says Upinder Saini, CEO of EnStream,
a joint venture of Bell, Rogers and TELUS.
Laurent Leboucher, Group CTO and senior vice president,
Orange innovation networks: "Orange is definitely committed to
create a strong momentum with Open Gateway APIs. Our belief is that
seamless access to these APIs from the extensive Google developer
community will be a significant milestone toward the massive
adoption of telco APIs."
Eran Haggiag, CEO, Glide:
"OpenGateway provides a unique opportunity in delivering AI-era
identity, payment, and communication solutions. To unlock this
potential, alignment, agility, and reliable aggregation are
essential. We are excited to launch in beta today the
Google-branded OpenGateway experience and to have quickly
integrated major MNOs. We are seeing a rapidly increasing
integration pace, with as low as a couple of weeks for an
integration. We expect adoption and monetization to pick up over
the near term, to the benefit of the telecom ecosystem as a
whole."
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