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Mtel,a subsidiary of Telekom Austria Group and the largest mobile operator in Bulgaria with over 4.2 million customers, announces the successful trial of a fully virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) using Affirmed Networks’ virtualization solution, called the Affirmed Mobile Content Cloud™.
- According to a statement, by employing a next-generation NFV and cloud-based approach, Affirmed Networks is able to provide Mtel with a fully virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC), including 4G gateways, policy control and enforcement functions, Gi services, dynamic scaling, MPLS-based VPN, and other capabilities.
"We are absolutely confident that the NFV technology is a defining trend in the mobile industry. We are therefore very pleased with Mtel’s initiative to explore and implement NFV. The success and efficiency goes along with years of innovation strategy at Mtel. For Telekom Austria Group, this is just the beginning of a journey to explore the latest technologies and further improve services for our customers, performance, experience, or availability.”
- Gunther Ottendorfer, Chief Technical Officer of Telekom Austria Group
"By radically enhancing both the operator’s commercial model for deployment of new services and their time to revenue, Affirmed Networks enables our customers to implement new capabilities that are not viable in the legacy network. Our virtualized solutions enable operators to aggressively address a broad new set of applications and opportunities for their enterprise and end user customers.”
- Hassan Ahmed, Chairman and CEO of Affirmed Networks