{"id":22764,"date":"2018-02-27T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=22764"},"modified":"2018-02-27T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T10:30:28","slug":"du-selects-virtualised-networks-system-from-affirmed-networks-to-deliver-iot-vowifi-and-fixed-wireless-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2018\/02\/27\/du-selects-virtualised-networks-system-from-affirmed-networks-to-deliver-iot-vowifi-and-fixed-wireless-services\/","title":{"rendered":"du selects virtualised networks system from Affirmed Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Affirmed Networks, a leader in virtualised mobile networks, has announced that UAE-based telecommunications service provider du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has selected Affirmed’s\u00a0Network Functions Virtualisation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(NFV)\u00a0Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) mobile core to provide an industry-leading 3GPP core network for IoT use cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

This will enable a wide range of smart city use cases. <\/span><\/p>\n

Affirmed Networks’ NB-IoT solution is deployed on du’s fully virtualised native cloud open-stack environment as one of the first in the\u00a0Middle East<\/span><\/span>. du will also be using Affirmed’s Virtualized Mobile Core, which includes a virtualised WiFi Gateway, to deliver VoWiFi and Fixed Wireless services.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

This state of the art deployment is 5G-ready with network slicing capability to support du’s vision of a fully virtualised and software defined native cloud core network. The announcement was made to coincide with Mobile World Congress 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) is the foundation for achieving efficient carrier-grade solutions. A software-based platform running on standard multi-core hardware, NFV plays an important role in achieving high availability, flexibility and service agility. It represents a key technology allowing telecom operators to move towards 5G with core and edge cloud computing and network slicing, and offers an agile, fast and more efficient model that best serves the operators’ subscribers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saleem AlBlooshi, Chief Infrastructure Officer, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, du, said: “We are excited to partner with Affirmed Networks, a leader in native virtualised core network solutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Adopting Affirmed Networks NB-IoT core will ensure we have state-of-the-art 5G ready core network with slicing to serve enterprise as well as consumer use cases. Also, the co-operation in 5G and IoT development is essential to realise UAE leaders’ vision to build the smartest city and to be on top of the technological evolution.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohammed Shanableh<\/span><\/span>, Affirmed Networks’ Vice President, Global Operations, said: “As one of the innovative operators in the\u00a0Middle East<\/span><\/span>, du has realised how a virtualised network can dramatically improve both their network economics and service agility.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

“By embracing new technologies such as NB-IoT, VoWiFi and Fixed LTE, they are now able to add new revenue generating services, while at the same time achieving better network utilisation and improving customer quality of experience.\u00a0 We look forward to continue our work with du as they transform their network toward 5G.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Affirmed Networks, a leader in virtualised mobile networks, has announced that UAE-based telecommunications service provider du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has selected Affirmed’s\u00a0Network Functions Virtualisation\u00a0(NFV)\u00a0Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) mobile core to provide an industry-leading 3GPP core network for IoT use cases. This will enable a wide range of smart city use cases. Affirmed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":22765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,809,389,185],"tags":[4882,683,4288,4289,4883,315,284,4884,4885,1324,250,4455],"class_list":["post-22764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-more-news","category-telecom","category-uae","tag-affirmed-networks","tag-du","tag-eitc","tag-emirates-integrated-telecommunications-company","tag-fixed-wireless-services","tag-internet-of-things","tag-iot","tag-narrow-band-iot","tag-nb-iot","tag-network-functions-virtualisation","tag-nfv","tag-vowifi"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}