United Cloud partnership with Sentinel Holding
October 9, 2023
United Cloud, the innovation centre of the United Group, which develops products and services for the telecommunications and media sectors, and Sentinel Holding, a specialist in open-standards open-source software, have signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement and a Master Software Development Agreement.
The partners’ shared roadmap will support United Cloud’s development of innovations in open-source, open-standards technology to enable optimised, unified software platform and system management across United Group’s operational territories, devices and access technologies, all achieved with a single unified software.
“We are excited about our close partnership with Sentinel, and we look forward to building on their extensive know-how and proven experience to enable us to create our own open-source and open-standards platform for the future,” said Sergej Berišaj, CTO United Cloud.
The agreement follows a successful proof-of-concept (PoC) related to software development for all United Cloud network’s CPE devices, seamlessly embracing multiple network access technologies – 5G, fibre, copper, Ethernet, and cable – in a flexible, unified and efficient way, with savings in both resources and cost.
The core of the agreement is that United Cloud has engaged Sentinel Holding to jointly develop an OpenWrt-based open-source platform as the technological basis for driving innovation, development, reduction of operational complexities and revenue generation.
“We’re proud of this collaboration that further strengthens United Cloud’s position as a leader in the adoption of a true open-standards technology infrastructure. At its heart stands a long-term technology partnership which will see collaborative development and innovation going forward,” said Goran Medić, Founder and CEO of Sentinel Holding.
United Cloud and Sentinel Holding are now proactively working on enabling segregation of an open-standards and open-source-based software platform from the underlying hardware. By separating hardware from software, and unifying the software, the partners are laying the foundation for customers to benefit from faster time to market, enhanced return on investment, and new services and revenue streams.