Developers: | GSMA Association |
Date of the premiere of the system: | February 2023 |
Branches: | Telecommunications and Communications |
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History
2023: Project Launch
At the end of February 2023, the mobile communications association, GSMA which includes many of the world's largest telecom companies, launched the Open Gateway project to open access to mobile operator networks for developers. With the help of the new solution, the latter will be able to open access to their telecommunications and network capabilities, which are based on open industry standards.
APIs are designed to provide federated access to WAN capabilities to simplify service delivery and accelerate market entry. GSMA sees this move as a paradigm shift in how the telecommunications industry develops and provides services in the API economy world.
GSMA Open Gateway is designed to help developers and cloud service providers improve and implement services faster through single access points to operator networks. This is achieved through common APIs for northbound services that reveal the network capabilities of mobile operators in a serial, compatible, and federated structure.
APIs are defined, developed and published in the open source project for Camara developers. Thanks to this, APIs between carriers and developers can be provided quickly, using developer-friendly tools and program code.
The initiative started with eight universal network APIs, including technologies for reassigning a number from one SIM card to another, device status (connected or roaming), number verification, selection and routing of border sites, number verification (SMS 2FA), operator billing, device location verification (location verification).
The project plans to launch additional APIs during 2023. Examples of services supported by the GSMA Open Gateway implementation include the selection and routing of border sites to support autonomous vehicles and location verification for fleet management and incident reporting. According to GSMA, participants will be able to develop new use cases based on network telecommunication and services using Azure Programmable Connectivity from, Microsoft a communication platform Vonage and in the markets and. AWS Google Cloud[1]