Good leaders understand the value of teamwork. They know that good ideas can come from individuals, but good solutions come from people. That’s why it means a lot to us to be recognized again for this year’s Intel® Network Builders Winners’ Circle Awards: it validates everything we believe at Affirmed about the importance of leadership.
Intel Network Builders represents a broad ecosystem of solutions vendors, equipment manufacturers, systems integrators, and communications service providers that have come together to build better solutions using Intel’s industry-leading technology. This year, only a few dozen partners were selected for the Intel Network Builders Winners’ Circle, representing an elite corps of Intel partners. Those companies selected for the Winners’ Circle are awarded the status of Partners, Solution Partners, and at the highest level, the Leaders Board.
This year marks Affirmed’s second year in the Leaders’ Board, and it is representative of the collaboration between Affirmed and Intel to bring together the best of both technologies. Affirmed’s solution runs on Open NFVI environment which uses Intel® Architecture powered by Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, accelerating time to deployment with deterministic behavior and transforming network technology with value-propositions for Communication Service Providers, including top-of-the-line performance, lower cost per bit, better ROI, and as a future proof platform for 5G services.
This year’s award comes at a critical time in our industry, as telco operators and enterprises prepare for the commercial arrival of 5G services. Together with our partners, we’ve helped advance the adoption of Network Functions Virtualization infrastructure (NFVi), move network services to the edge for greater efficiency, and deploy 5G services to real customers. The opportunities for growth and innovation are just beginning, and we’re determined, along with our partners, to build the next generation of solutions that drive growth and innovation.
Being named a member of the Leaders Board means that, together with Intel, Affirmed Networks is making meaningful contributions to the acceleration of network transformations around the world—contributions like building the world’s fastest 5G cloud-native platform. We’ll continue to work with technology visionaries such as Intel, Red Hat, and VMware to ensure that the advances being made in cloud and virtualized architectures can benefit telco operators too.
This is what leadership looks like. It’s about putting your customers first and leaving your ego at the door. Accolades like the Leaders Board validate that what we’re doing is important, but the real validation comes from knowing that we’re not just giving our customers the best that Affirmed has to offer, but the best that Intel, Dell, HPE, Red Hat, VMware, and other leaders have to offer as well. Together, we can do more than transform networks; we can change the world.
