Singtel announced it is partnering with Vonage to help enterprises and telcos innovate and scale their services and solutions through Singtel's one-stop orchestration platform, Paragon. By integrating Paragon's advanced telco and edge APIs with Vonage's API platform, enterprises, telcos and developers will have access to a global ecosystem of rich communications, network and edge APIs that will seamlessly provide optimized, secure, and engaging customer experiences, while accelerating digital transformation. Paragon-enabled telcos from Singapore, Thailand, Spain, Taiwan and Indonesia will be able to integrate Vonage and Paragon APIs into a globally unified telco and edge API library.

Global independent software vendors (ISVs), enterprises and developers can leverage these APIs to deliver digital services at greater speed and scale over hybrid networks, hybrid edge and public cloud infrastructures across multiple markets. Vonage APIs will be made available in the Paragon platform marketplace, Singtel?s app store for multi-network, multi-cloud enterprise solutions, enabling enterprises to explore new possibilities for innovation and to expand their range of digital services at speed. Singtel also plans to make available network and edge APIs, defined by industry standards like CAMARA and TMForum, to a broad community of developers through the Paragon and Vonage API platforms, to drive rapid enterprise application development across multiple markets.

As a result of this partnership, network capabilities exposed through industry standard and innovative new APIs, such as Quality on Demand, slicing and credential-less authentication, are expected to be available for preview beginning in fourth quarter. These capabilities support new services and solutions, optimize application performance and drive better customer experiences. Singtel Paragon is a comprehensive solution that enables enterprises to connect with the 5G network and securely deploy their edge computing applications and services rapidly on the telco?s infrastructure, thus reducing time-to-market and shortening the innovation curve.

This partnership will enable the Vonage API platform to publish Paragon APIs enabling Vonage customers and global enterprise customers of all paragon-enabled telcos to capitalize on the key capabilities of their networks and edge, such as: Network slicing: An advanced capability of the Singtel 5G network that can provide customizable connectivity experiences tailored to specific enterprise service requirements; Multi-cloud management: Enables effortless deployment of workloads across various cloud services; Connectivity management: Activate and manage the lifecycle of network connections seamlessly; Edge computing: Discover, deploy and manage mission critical enterprise applications at the edge of telco networks; Advanced network services: Examples include enabling network features to track the location of devices, authenticate enterprise customer connections without credentials like one-time-password and ensuring enterprise network quality on demand.