Affirmed Networks unveiled its SAP service, which it claims reduces time-to-market and operational costs of introducing new services
Virtualized mobile networks vendor Affirmed Network launched its Service Automation Platform, which it claims allows mobile operators to reduce the time-to-market and operational costs of introducing new services by as much as 90%.
The platform is said to provide automated service provisioning to legacy and virtualized networks, which Affirmed noted allows operators to develop new services without the need for “complex coding or the risk of unnecessary errors associated with today’s manual approach.”
“Automation is the missing link that enables rapid service creation in legacy and virtualized environments and allows operators to create new services that were not possible before in their current environment,” explained Angela Whiteford, VP of product management and marketing at Affirmed.
In a move to bolster its claim, Affirmed, along with Mellanox and Red Hat, commissioned a study from Core Analysis looking at the business case of a virtualized automated service provisioning environment. Not surprisingly, the study found network operators deploying automated service provisioning can experience significant savings and faster time-to-revenue when launching services.
Specifically, the study found provisioning of new enterprise customer for VPN-as-a-service resulted in operational savings of between 76% and 87%; the launching of a mobile virtual network operator customer resulted in operational savings of between 92% and 97%; and the provisioning of multiple sponsored data or zero rating plans resulted in savings of between 83% and 97%.
RCR Wireless News spoke with Whiteford late last year as part of our weekly NFV/SDN Reality Check show about a report from the company digging into the total cost of ownership savings telecom operators could glean from adopting virtualized platforms.
Affirmed last year scored carrier deals with Spain-based mobile network provider Aire Networks to provide its Virtual Evolved Packet Core platform as the foundation for Aire’s network virtualization plans, and with Canadian operator Telus to deploy a cloud-based platform optimized for “Internet of Things” workloads.
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