Digicel Transforms Telecommunications with Kong

技术

应用基础设施与中间件 - API 集成与管理

适用行业

电信

适用功能

商业运营

服务

软件设计与工程服务

挑战

Digicel, a telecommunications and home entertainment provider, embarked on an effort to launch a fully digital mobile network for its French West Indies region. The company's existing technology stack relied on a VPN network and ESB to expose services and faced issues with connectivity and functionality in microservices use cases. The company needed to adopt a microservices architecture to support this transformation and remain competitive. They were looking for an API gateway that would support their domain-driven design approach and work well with their architecture.

关于客户

Digicel is a telecommunications and home entertainment provider founded in Jamaica in 2001. The company's mission is to deliver the best network, services, and value to customers. Digicel has grown to provide services in over 30 markets across the Caribbean, Latin America, and Oceania regions. Within two years of launching in 2001, Digicel became a mobile subscriber market leader. Today, its mobile phone network serves over 13 million wireless customers. Digicel has invested over $5 billion in its business worldwide, building critical infrastructure and connectivity to the communities it serves.

解决方案

Digicel adopted Kong Enterprise as their API gateway. Kong offered a simpler architecture and lightweight deployment for achieving the team’s vision of transitioning their monolithic architecture to microservices. Kong also worked well with the team’s plan to introduce their API gateway as an on-premise solution initially. With Kong, Digicel's team supported the launch by decoupling the Digicel French West Indies group’s business domain with one microservice. This incremental adoption of a microservice allowed a successful launch on an ambitious timeline for the project. Kong acted as the API gateway between wireless customers and Digicel French West Indies’ digital services. Digicel made use of Kong’s plug-in architecture to meet their business requirements, including security, logging, metrics, and integration to existing systems.

运营影响

Digicel French West Indies successfully launched a fully digital mobile service, using Kong as an API gateway.
This initial launch’s success gave the team the confidence to subsequently put Kong at the center of broader digital transformation efforts.
Several other web services were launched with Kong acting as API gateway.

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