US-based Genband, a leading provider of real-time communications solutions, said it will be showcasing its award-winning Kandy Communications Platform as a service, IP exchange and VoLte Interconnect solutions at Gitex Tech Week.

The largest technology exchange and marketplace in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, Gitex kicks off in Dubai tomorrow (October 16) and will run till October 20.

"The Middle East is an epicenter for today's digital revolution and an area of tremendous innovation, which is right in line with our strategy," said Patrick Joggerst, Genband's executive vice president (Global Sales and Marketing).

"Our real-time communications solutions, including Kandy, deliver the extensive, flexible capabilities that can help support the region's transformation into a knowledge-based economy and tech powerhouse," he stated.

Built from Genband's core communications, presence, security and real-time technologies, the Kandy real-time software development platform enables service providers, enterprises, software vendors, systems integrators, partners and developers to enrich their applications and services with real-time contextual communications, delivering a more engaging user experience, said Joggerst.

According to him, Kandy Wrappers expedite embedded communications deployment for companies of any size, helping them differentiate their product and service offerings, facilitate engagement and collaboration, and move up the value chain with minimal customization and a simple pay as you grow price model for additional risk management.

The suite of pre-packaged, easily deployable solutions includes Visual Attendant, Concierge, Truckroll, Two Factor Authentication (2FA) and more, he stated.

Carriers looking to interconnect disparate fixed and mobile networks to deliver new services and improve monetization are faced with a host of interoperability, security and service quality challenges.

Genband's IP eXchange solution mitigates these issues while providing advanced signaling control, routing and QoS assurance, and enabling new cloud-based, hosted multimedia IP interconnect service offerings to wholesale, mobile, fixed, cable and over the Top (OTT) service providers, he added.-TradeArabia News Service