Affirmed Networks scored a pair of operator deals this week that will see its virtualized evolved packet core (vEPC) deployed to support 4G LTE and 5G networks in parts of Finland and Latin America. read more

Check out this SDxCentral interview with Affirmed’s very own senior director of product management, Seshadri Sathyanarayan. read more

Affirmed Networks today announced UnityCloud, a cloud-native mobile core that the company claims to be the industry’s first 5G standalone (SA) mobile core. Read More

Affirmed Networks raised $38 million in a new round of funding led by Centerview Capital Technology. Orange International Carriers selected Affirmed‘s virtualized WiFi gateway service to rollout WiFi data roaming services. Read More

Turkish operator Turkcell and vendor partners Affirmed Networks and Red Hat deployed what they claim is the largest commercial virtualized mobile network in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), supporting 35 million subscribers with a volume of 1.8 terabits per second. Turkcell has now virtualized 18 percent of its voice and data services capacity […]

Affirmed Networks announced that its virtual evolved packet core (virtual EPC) is now available to mobile operators on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The virtual EPC is targeted to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), cable operators that want to provide a mobile service, and traditional mobile operators that want to expand outside of their footprint, among other […]

Unless you have been living on a deserted island, you know that 5G is coming. The industry and ecosystem is racing, prepping, and hyping on many fronts to usher in this new generation. And you probably also know that 5G architectures are virtualized. Yet, as recently as four years ago there was still a debate […]

Affirmed Networks published the results of its virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) performance test on an Intel Xeon scalable processor-based server. Read More

Affirmed Networks Chief Architect Ron Parker said: “5G is a set of new and enhanced use cases centered around scale, reliability, latency, and location awareness. A new radio modulation scheme, standardized network slicing, and a cloud native transformation of the core network architecture.” Read More

Affirmed Networks will be a provider of a virtualized GiLAN software and a system integrator of Turkish mobile provider Turkcell. Softbank selected Affirmed Networks’ mobile content cloud to supply its enterprise customers with IoT services and mobile connectivity. Three UK chose Affirmed Networks’ service awareness and virtual probe and analytics technology for its mobile network. […]

Affirmed Networks unveiled a 5G mobile core that the company said supports the 3GPP’s 5G New Radio (NR) standard and features sector speeds of 20 Gb/s downlink and 10 Gb/s uplink. Read More

Affirmed Networks is making it possible for operators to slice and dice their legacy network traffic without having to wait for 5G. Using its virtual slice selection function (vSSF), Affirmed lets carriers steer traffic into slices over both legacy, virtualized, and multivendor networks. Read More