Affirmed Networks, the leader in the virtualization of mobile networks, announced that Transatel has selected the company’s network virtualization solution, called the Affirmed Mobile Content Cloud™ for its MVNO and M2M customers. Transatel with operations in UK, France, Switzerland, and Benelux is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), mobile operator solutions provider (MVNO-Enabler or MVNE/A), and M2M service provider/enabler, partnering Everything Everywhere UK and Orange OCH. In addition, Transatel has roaming agreements with seven major European carriers to offer seamless service to its subscribers.
Affirmed Networks said that by virtualizing network functions with the Affirmed Mobile Content Cloud and utilizing data center/cloud environments, Transatel is able to differentiate their service offering as well as embrace new and flexible business models critical for taking on a leadership position in the MVNO and M2M business. It also said that the solution for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) empowers the creation and launch of new services and applications in a matter of hours and days.
"In the M2M and Internet of Things space, Transatel offers a comprehensive embedded connectivity solution for consumer device manufacturers and distributors to embed connectivity into their devices ‒ such as PC, tablets, and gaming devices ‒ at the time of manufacturing via soldered SIM card and benefit from local connectivity in the country of commercialization, whilst supporting advanced economic models, such as B2B2C and split billing, effectively becoming data MVNOs. Affirmed Networks’ virtualization solution is a key component to support these various economic models in real-time mobile data control and charging, radically simplifying the way new services are created and launched, and monitored for our customers’ benefits.”
- Jacques Bonifay, CEO of Transatel
"We admire Transatel’s forward thinking vision of the consumer device market and the role the MVNO model will play in this market to bring differentiated services to subscribers. In many ways it parallels our own philosophy of innovation at Affirmed. The Transatel team immediately recognized that our virtualized architecture greatly enhances their ability to launch and monetize new services while radically simplifying their operations and management.”
- Hassan Ahmed, Chairman and CEO of Affirmed Networks
