UBITECH participated at the 4th FITCE Technology Forum on “Technologies and Services as we move to the advancement of mobile and fiber communications”, that was held online on Friday 11th of December 2020 and is sponsored and co-organized by COSMOTE. A presentation was delivered by Dr Dimitris Klonidis, the head of the Network Softwarization and IoT group of UBITECH, within the session “Emerging SMEs and their role in the Greek Economy” which included presentations from industry and SME companies on innovative outcomes stemming from research activities with a view towards telecom market products.
The presentation has focused on the capabilities and the new extensions of UBITECH’s Vertical Application Orchestrator (VAO) that has emerged from the MAESTRO platform and offers an innovative application deployment and management solution for 5G systems. UBITECH’s VAO is currently attracting significant interest in the 5G research innovation community and is already included in 4 new 5GPPP phase III Innovation Action projects. The talk highlighted the key features and the architecture of VAO as well as the way that it is linked to 5G service and infrastructure management platforms. The new features and extension of the VAO were also presented, while emphasis was given on the offered benefits for service providers, infrastructure owners and application developers.
