JSC Ingenium appoints Nina Juliana Aguilera as America Sales Manager

JSC Ingenium, a global core & BSS provider for Communication Service Providers, has announced the appointment of Nina Juliana Aguilera as America Sales Manager, reporting directly to the company’s Chief Sales Officer, Juan Carlos Buitrago.

Nina Juliana holds almost 20 years of experience in the sector and was previously Business Key Account Manager for Huawei Technologies in Colombia. Prior to this, she worked for ten years for Ribbon Communications – currently a partner of JSC Ingenium – in different roles of responsibility in the technical and pre-sales areas.

“Joining a project like JSC Ingenium is a big step in my career and I am confident that my previous knowledge and experience will help drive the company’s development across the Americas region. This is a critical time for the growth of the industry, and we are the right partner to lead our customers into the future of connectivity,” says Nina Juliana.

“Nina Juliana Aguilera’s talent, experience and energy are the best tools we can count on at JSC Ingenium to achieve the success our customers deserve. Her incorpoation to the company, strengthening the team in Latam, is a clear manifestation of our strategic commitment to continue growing in the region, hand in hand with our partners,” adds Juan Carlos Buitrago.

JSC Ingenium strengthens its technological leadership thanks to Maestro de Red 5G

Under the title “Maestro de Red 5G” the company is undertaking a new R&D project, approved by the Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico y la Innovación, E.P.E (CDTI), a certifying body under the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF 2021-2027).

The main objective of the project is to research and develop a complete and practical structure that leverages data analysis based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) solutions for network control, management and orchestration. At the same time, it bridges the gap between the business and technical domain by exposing the capabilities necessary for the business domain to create an instance, operate and modify network services and tenants.

This project includes the design of an overall architecture that is sustainable and energy efficient, to reduce environmental impact and reduce operational costs; the evolution of the current monitoring systems to accommodate the defined architecture; the enhancement and development of the current 5G core network prototype, allowing it to handle a larger data network; and the development of a new network architecture that will allow the enterprise domain to manage a larger data network.

“Maestro de Red 5G” is in line with the company’s strategy of devoting around 45% of its resources to R&D, which has provided it with cutting-edge technology capable of providing a solution to the daily and constant challenges faced by mobile operators wishing to compete and differentiate themselves in terms of value. This brings to five the number of R&D projects approved by CDTI in the last 15 years. “Our strong commitment to R&D has allowed us to achieve international recognition and opens doors for us to continue competing in a highly competitive and constantly evolving mobile market,” said José Manuel Losada, Chief Technology Officer of JSC Ingenium.

“One of the key challenges for operators as they embrace 5G is to improve network operations and maintenance. The concept of a single network for everything changes completely. The application of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques will allow us to bring more compatibility to the network, so that the network becomes agile, flexible and intelligent to serve the business purpose, while enabling rapid service innovation and significantly reducing the time to market for mobile operators,” adds Losada.

JSC Ingenium appoints José Carlos Mata as EMEA Sales Manager

JSC Ingenium, a global vendor of Core Network 4G/5G and BSS technology for mobile operators, officially announces the appointment of José Carlos Mata as EMEA Sales Manager, reporting directly to the company’s Chief Sales Officer, Juan Carlos Buitrago.

With more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications sector, José Carlos Mata returns, after four years, to the company that has been his home and where he has spent a large part of his professional career. His commercial vision and his clear focus on the customer guarantee a national and international career that has always been linked to the mobile operator sector.

“It is a real pleasure for me to rejoin JSC Ingenium at such an important time of international growth as the company is experiencing in the midst of a technological revolution for the sector,” said José Carlos Mata. The executive will lead the customer care, monitoring and loyalty strategy in EMEA, in line with the company’s overall strategy to become a global benchmark technology provider for mobile, network and virtual operators. “Being close to the customer is key, it allows us to know their reality first hand and to understand the problems and challenges they face much better,” adds Mata.

“We are about to celebrate three decades in the market serving our customers. In less than two years, we have doubled the number of our customers, and we are taking on increasingly complex and ambitious projects, both technologically and in terms of subscribers. We are convinced that the appointment of José Carlos Mata at this time will provide us with the experience, focus and proximity to the customer that we consider essential for the success of the company,” said Juan Carlos Buitrago, Chief Sales Officer.

Daniel Sendín Dahlke, New Presales Director of JSC Ingenium

JSC Ingenium, a global provider of Core Network 4G/5G and BSS technology for mobile operators, has appointed Daniel Sendín Dahlke as Presales Director, supporting the company’s two main business areas: Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs).

Daniel Sendín Dahlke, who joined the Presales area a year and a half ago, will take charge of technological support and advice to the company’s customers, to whom JSC Ingenium offers a unique solution designed according to CNF (Cloud Network Function) principles and that can operate on legacy networks (2G/3G) while being ready to deploy the functionalities of 5GSA.

Daniel Sendín Dahlke takes over the position previously held by Alfonso Reillo, currently Global Sales Director for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), reporting directly to the company’s Chief Sales Officer, Juan Carlos Buitrago.

“I am looking forward to the challenge of leading a key department for the company, such as Presales. My commitment is to provide my knowledge and experience so that JSC Ingenium‘s customers can optimise the use and maximise the benefits of the technology we offer, which is defined by the latest advances in the sector (cloud-native solutions, network slicing, microservices, etc.)”, explains Daniel Sendín Dahlke.

JSC Ingenium appoints Alfonso Reillo Global MVNO Sales Director

JSC Ingenium a global provider of Core Network 4G/5G and BSS technology for mobile operators, has announced the appointment of Alfonso Reillo as the new Global Sales Director for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs), reporting directly to the company’s Chief Sales Officer, Juan Carlos Buitrago.

Alfonso Reillo, until now Director of Pre-Sales and Alliances at JSC Ingenium, will lead the company’s international growth strategy in the area of Mobile Virtual Network Operators to which it offers a unique solution, designed according to CNF (Cloud Network Function) principles, capable of operating over legacy networks (2G/3G) but already prepared to deploy 5GSA functionalities.

The new Global Sales Director for the MVNO area has extensive experience in the telco sector, where he has occupied various positions of responsibility in companies such as Telefónica, Altran (Capgemini Engineering) and Colt Technology Services. He holds a Computer Science bachelor’s degree from the Escuela de Sistemas Informáticos (Madrid).

New strategies for mobile operators in their approach to 5G

Despite the benefits and known improvements that 5G technology will bring in terms of productivity, efficiency, job creation, etc., the adoption of 5G in Latin America is slower than expected, being, according to GSMA Intelligence, well below the average of the main regions worldwide. However, it is important to note that in recent months we are experiencing a constant trickle of official announcements by local governments of new 5G radio frequency spectrum tenders in countries such as Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Peru, Guatemala or Panama, in addition to those of Chile, Brazil or the Dominican Republic, which were already operating in 2022, and thus begin to draw a different scenario, which will change dramatically in the coming months.

At the same time, it is important to point out that, according to the GSMA, 4G is still the most widely used mobile communications technology in Latin America today. It is expected to reach its peak in 2024, reaching 74% of total mobile connections, and it will not be until 2025 when it will begin its decline in favor of a greater role for 5G. This data indicates that there are still issues to be solved and services to be rolled out, such as VoLTE/IMS. The switch-off of legacy 2G and 3G networks will force the remaining mobile operators to deploy this new technology in order to continue offering voice calls on next-generation networks. By the end of 2022, only 46% of mobile networks worldwide had deployed VoLTE, in Latin America only more than 20%, well below the global average.

This poses a major challenge for mobile operators in the region who are aware that there are still things to do in 4G, and at the same time, they have to make a decision on how they will evolve their networks for the imminent arrival of 5G. Unlike the transition from 3G to 4G, the arrival of 5G in the region, beyond a change of standards, will mean a disruption: a new way of working and doing things; a change that will affect mobile operators at all levels – core, radio, IP backhaul -. That will force them, above all, to define and specify how they are going to evolve their networks. They will have to define their 5G deployment strategies and make important decisions that will affect not only the deployment of the new technology itself in the future, but also the way in which they approach other legacy technologies, such as VoLTE/IMS.

Freddy Lara, MNO sales director of JSC Ingenium, talks about the company’s vision to face this great challenge and points out that “operators need to make these two scenarios compatible. Our company strategy in this regard is to carry out a 5G standalone deployment from the beginning, which is backward compatible, i.e. on the same network and on the same containerized deployment. The goal is that everything is managed in a unified way from the same Core, which is compatible with previous technologies, without the need for the operator to maintain two or even three networks in parallel”. Thus, in addition to the operational cost savings estimated at around 30% for the use of cloud-native technologies, there will also be cost savings in the operation and maintenance of the legacy networks themselves.

Lara adds “The competitive advantage of our value proposition is that it is based on a fully cloud-native solution, which operates on containers, and which will allow operators to have from the outset the capacity for adoption, implementation and customization of services necessary to manage them at the pace and speed demanded by the market”. The company is announcing the launch of its new 5G standalone in 2023 at a key moment when mobile operators must decide their future and is positioning itself as a 5G SA technology challenger vendor for mobile network operators in the region.

JSC Ingenium has been involved since its foundation in the Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) sector and has extensive international experience with more than 100 MVNOs and more than 600 sub-brands deployed and operational today. In its new growth strategy, it is committed to expanding its reach to mobile network operators, without abandoning its focus on virtual operators, and is beginning to compete with large international telco vendors such as Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei, with cutting-edge technology and human resources.

The company recently announced the joining of a first-class team, for their experience and knowledge of telco operators, Freddy Lara as MNO Sales Manager and Alejandro Suaza as Presales Engineer, who join the team led by Juan Carlos Buitrago, who, based in Bogota, Colombia, will take care of all the company’s commercial operations in the region.

JSC Ingenium appoints Alejandro Suaza Presales Engineer

Alejandro Suaza has extensive experience in the telco sector, where he has held various senior positions. To date, he has worked as Wholesale MVNO and Roaming Expert at Tigo Colombia. Previously, he has worked as Core consultant in companies such as Oracle or Huawei, developing projects for Tigo, Claro or AT&T. A Systems Engineer from the Universidad del Valle, he is also a specialist in Systems Engineering Management -Pontificia Universidad Javierana- and holds a master’s degree in information technology management (MBA) -Universidad ICESI-.

The appointment of Alejandro Suaza joins the recent incorporations to JSC Ingenium of Juan Carlos Buitrago, Chief Sales Officer, and Freddy Lara, MNO Sales Director. With the expansion and reinforcement of its teams, especially in Latin America, the company aims to boost its development and expansion both in new geographic areas and in the Mobile Network Operator arena.

“I am confident that my previous experience in the sector will contribute to the continued growth of JSC Ingenium“, said Alejandro Suaza, adding: “I am very excited to be joining such a renowned team of professionals and a company with such advanced solutions, at such a decisive time as the sector is going through”.

JSC Ingenium joins CANTO and strengthens its presence in Central America and the Caribbean

JSC Ingenium‘s membership of CANTO is also a reflection of its commitment to driving innovation and technological advancement in the telecommunications sector, and to help CSPs to adopt 5G with guarantees and reduce the digital divide and, ultimately, to boost the economies of the countries in the region. As an active member of CANTO, the company will participate in a diverse network of industry professionals and leaders, providing a platform to exchange knowledge, collaborate on joint projects and establish strategic relationships with other key industry players.

The partnership with CANTO will enable JSC Ingenium to ensure that it is at the forefront of the latest trends and developments in telecommunications, while contributing to the promotion of best practices and standards in the region. It will also benefit from the various learning opportunities, training and participation in exclusive events offered by CANTO.

Juan Carlos Buitrago, CSO of JSC Ingenium, highlights the importance of this membership as a way of participating in building the future of communications in the region: “We are delighted to join the prestigious CANTO association and to collaborate with other industry leaders. We look forward to actively contributing to the promotion of innovation and progress in telecommunications in the Americas and the Caribbean”.

With its focus on technological excellence and customer service, JSC Ingenium is ready to take full advantage of its CANTO membership and collaborate with other industry players to drive digital transformation and sustainable development in telecommunications.

JSC Ingenium achieves certifications ISO 9001, 14001 and 27001

JSC Ingenium as part of its continuous improvement strategy, has achieved ISO 9001, 14001 and 27001 certifications corresponding to the Quality, Environmental and Information Security Management Systems, respectively.

The International Standard ISO 9001:2015 is focused on the achievement of quality in an organization through the implementation of a method or Quality Management System (QMS). Its certification accredits compliance with requirements related to the organization’s process management and its ability to meet the expectations of its customers.

For its part, the ISO 14001:2015 certification obtained by JSC Ingenium is related to the monitoring of an Environmental Management System that systematically addresses the organization’s responsibilities in this area of sustainability: improvement of environmental performance, compliance with legal requirements and achievement of environmental objectives.

Finally, ISO 27001:2013 responds to strict standards in Information Security Management System (ISMS). The aim is to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data and the systems responsible for protecting it.

“These three certifications reflect of our commitment to our clients and to the continuous search for excellence”, explains Pablo Jorquera, Head of Business Support at JSC Ingenium, “this milestone is undoubtedly a recognition of the work we have been doing so far, but, at the same time, it also implies an incentive to continue working to guarantee at all times compliance with the standards that we demand of ourselves and that our clients expect”.

JSC Ingenium appoints Freddy Lara MNO Sales Director

JSC Ingenium has appointed Freddy Lara as MNO Sales Director. With his entry into the company, a new sales division is formally created, dedicated exclusively to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to which it offers core solutions based entirely on the cloud, ready for the future and, at the same time, compatible with legacy networks.

“I am very excited to start this new stage with a company as solid and with as much potential as JSC Ingenium. The innovation of its solutions and the flexibility with which it allows operators to implement them are, without a doubt, the best tools to help MNOs achieve their goals”, Lara says.

As sales responsible for MNOs, Freddy Lara will report to Juan Carlos Buitrago, recently promoted to Chief Sales Officer of JSC Ingenium after a successful career as Country Manager of SUMA Colombia. “We are proud to have a professional like Freddy Lara in our team. His experience and knowledge of the market are a guarantee for the development and expansion of the company”, Buitrago adds.