Two Irish firms team up to work with operators on 'Network as a Service' business model.
Aepona is a telecoms software products headquartered in Belfast, while mobile transactions specialist Valista is based south of the border, in Dublin.
The merged offering will operate under the Aepona brand.
With the NaaS model, mobile and broadband operators treat their network as marketable resources that can be made available to third party developers.
These organisations can then enhance their apps with telco capabilities such as voice, location, messaging, profile, billing and so on.
It's exactly the kind of thing that Vodafone is currently working on.
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The new Aepona offers telcos an end-to-end solution for the NaaS model, including Open APIs towards core network capabilities, 3rd party relationship management, monetisation, billing mediation and settlement, and service lifecycle management.
