Bridge Alliance API exchange (BAEx) enables regional and multinational enterprises to gain seamless access to multi-market telco assets, unlocking new innovation and business opportunities

Bridge Alliance, a leading mobile alliance of 34 member operators worldwide, and Singtel, a leading communications technology group in Asia, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate regional Application Programming Interface (API) federation with a telco API exchange powered by Singtel’s Paragon, the all-in-one orchestration platform for telco networks.

Bridge Alliance is launching the Bridge Alliance API Exchange (BAEx), which leverages Paragon to aggregate its member operators’ network authentication, user verification and network quality APIs. With BAEx, enterprises and developers can streamline the deployment of new services on member operator networks by accessing a common API framework, which provides secure, consistent and on-demand access to telco network capabilities across multiple regions. This enables the regional aggregation and standardisation of telco APIs utilising CAMARA1 APIs.

Building on Singtel and Bridge Alliance’s experience with its ecosystem of member telecom operators, BAEx will significantly reduce complexity and friction for enterprise customers, developers, and solution providers through its unified integration, simplified commercial framework and common operational support model. The APIs offered will support regional and global enterprise use cases in fintech, e-commerce and over-the-top providers starting with network authentication, user verification and location tracking functions. This will also help enterprises accelerate time-to-market to launch their services and reduce the complexity of working with multiple telecommunication operators.

Mr Mike Heffner, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms at Singtel’s Digital InfraCo, said, “Enterprises that have operations spanning multiple countries and regions, will depend on reliable, high-quality connectivity to meet their mission-critical business needs and ensure seamless operations. We are pleased to collaborate with Bridge Alliance to leverage Singtel Paragon’s capabilities and offer a unified and consistent way to manage, orchestrate and expose APIs of its member telecommunication operators. This partnership will enable both Singtel and Bridge Alliance to support our customers’ use cases requiring dynamic and granular control of regional telco networking capabilities.”

Dr Ong Geok Chwee, CEO of Bridge Alliance, said, “We are delighted to advance API federation leveraging Singtel’s Paragon platform. Through BAEx as a single interface enabling regional consumption of telco APIs, we aim to accelerate telco API exposure to enable our member operators to serve the needs of enterprise customers. An open telco API economy is key to creating new business opportunities for enterprises. To achieve this, we invite communications service providers and industry players to partner BAEx in unlocking the value of telco capabilities.”

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