2018 has been quite a year for Affirmed Networks. As we usher in the New Year, we wish to thank our customers and partners for all your support, and we look forward to a prosperous 2019! Here’s a quick look at 2018 by the numbers: 90 customers worldwide have deployed Affirmed Networks virtual evolved packet […]
Archives for 2018
The Importance of Performance in a 5G World
The industry is racing to the next generation – 5G – which will be virtualized, replacing the costly, legacy, hardware-based infrastructure that has been in place for decades with common off-the-shelf (COTS) servers that offer a host of cost and operational advantages. But did you know they also offer network performance benefits as well? 5G […]
Three UK Deploys NFV to Get Ready for 5G
Are you ready for 5G? Bryn Jones, CTO, Three UK, chatted with Hassan Ahmed, CEO, Affirmed Networks, about the steps they are taking to improve their overall customer experience and prepare for the arrival of 5G. This video case study provides a look into how Three UK is using Affirmed’s GiLAN (optimization, DPI, CGNAT, Content […]
Why CSPs Should be “Open” to Cloud-Native Architectures
By now it’s clear that that Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are facing considerable competition from a new breed of market entrants. To make matters worse, these new players are not playing by the same rules, or are held to the same standards, as those who have provided reliable services to all of us for decades. […]
What Is Orchestration and Why Is It So Important?
In this second blog post about the TM Forum report on Orchestration, we’re going to look closely at the definition of orchestration in networking as it pertains to today’s virtualized mobile networks. “In general, the definition of network orchestration is too narrow and too specific to VNF lifecycle management. Operators have backed away from talking about […]
The Importance of Performance as Operators Race to 5G
Today, Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are facing competition on many fronts while continuing to operate in an industry in the midst of one of its most significant transformations it has ever faced. While industry pundits have many ideas in terms of what is needed to compete in this changing environment, the un-ending growth of data […]
Affirmed Networks Awarded Highest Honor as Part of Intel Network Builders Program
Last year Intel announced the Intel® Network Builders Winners’ Circle—a program for partner companies working to accelerate network transformation using Intel technology to optimize their solutions. Last week at the SDN NFV World Congress event, Intel announced the first finalists of the program at the Intel Network Builders Summit, which coincided with the SDN NFV […]
Affirmed Networks Outlines How Communications Service Providers can Win the Race to Revenue
With Communications Service Providers (CSPs) facing competition from all fronts – traditional service providers, cloud providers and over-the-top (OTT) providers –to effectively compete they need to transform both their networks AND their business. To help them address these challenges, Affirmed Networks has published a new whitepaper that outlines the ways CSPs can leverage the latest […]
The Reality of Open Networking in CSP Transformation
Heavy Reading and Linux Foundation Networking collaborated with six industry sponsors — Affirmed/Intel, Amdocs, CloudOps, Ericsson, Netgate and Red Hat — to survey CSPs around the world about the current state-of-play in open networking. The results of this collaboration are presented in the recently published Open Networking Survey Report. Read More
Affirmed Networks Executives Speak at ONS Europe on How Automation & Open Source are Paving the Way for 5G Services
This week at the ONS Europe event in Amsterdam, Affirmed Networks’ VP Product Management and Marketing, Angela Whiteford, and Affirmed Networks’ Senior Product Manager, Dejan Leskaroski, spoke on the importance of automation and open source technologies as 5G services become available. Focusing on how operators can achieve profitability in an era where bandwidth continues to […]
The Next Frontier in Virtualization: Cloud Computing
Today, it’s not a question of “if” but “when” will an operator adopt a cloud based architecture for their mobile networks. It’s happening now, and the coming arrival of 5G, which is based on a virtualized architecture, assures the continuation of this trend. But, it wasn’t always such a concrete fact. Rewind the clock back […]
The Mobile Network Is Becoming a Cloud Service
At Mobile World Congress Americas, the cloud and 5G loomed large and, frequently, were part of the same story. One example: Affirmed Networks Inc. announced a “Mobile Network as a Service” offering, wherein it made its virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) available to mobile operators on Amazon Web Services Inc. Read More
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