Who is Affirmed networks
Who is Affirmed Networks
AT&T and HP both like them
Infrastucture first - and the SIMs should follow
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If you never heard of Affirmed Networks before yesterday, you’re not alone.
The company doesn’t have its own booth at Mobile World Congress, but it does have a network functions virtualization (NFV) demo that’s in the HP booth. After Monday, when AT&T named Affirmed as a Domain 2.0 supplier for a virtualized evolved packet core (EPC), that little demo stand got a lot of attention.
“I found out what it’s like to be filmed,” said David Bastiani, a member of Affirmed’s technical marketing staff. Bastiani — who didn’t know about AT&T’s release until he was on the way to MWC Tuesday morning — ended up manning the demo alone, as other Affirmed executives were suddenly swamped with meeting requests. He spent the day inundated.
In addition to hosting those TV crews (there are a lot of them at this show), Bastiani also got to fend off competitors who innocently wandered by to ask things like, “Is it real?” One was there when I approached Affirmed’s station, in fact, fishing for information in an conversation with a lot of long pauses.
But one thing Affirmed will talk about is why it got AT&T’s attention. It’s pretty simple: Affirmed claims its virtual EPC is already running production traffic on some LTE networks. The company isn’t saying which ones.
By contrast, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent — to pick two examples out of many — won’t commercially ship their virtual EPCs until later in the year. (Both are in trials with the product.)
Unlike AlcaLu and Ericsson, though, Affirmed isn’t offering the entire EPC. Affirmed is offering the serving gateway |
