The World Wide Wireless Web

POWERING THE WORLD WIDE ® WIRELESS WEB TM The World Wide Wireless Web

The Next Iteration of the World Wide Web

As the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web draws to a close, it is time to re-imagine a new WWW that is mobile first—one defined by mobility, seamless At Affirmed Networks, we connectivity, and everything at your fingertips. It needs an approach that focuses on believe the new iteration secure connectivity between user, device, and applications; real-time visibility to help of the world wide web will improve network quality; delivery of low-latency services to meet mission-critical manifest in five key areas, laying the foundation of the needs; and cloud deployment to minimize operational issues and delivery times. world wide wireless web What Wireless Brings to the World Wide Web 1. A mobile-first approach to devices MOBILE FIRST

and applications, in Smartphone device usage is expected to generate over 250 billion order to deliver richer application downloads in the next two years. As mobile data consumer and enterprise consumption, devices, and users grow, the challenges of digital experiences. identity, subscriber preference, device management, and user data security will rise. Current solutions, however, lack the scalability, flexibility, and 2. Seamless and dynamic visibility to support the seamless, personalized, secure mobile experiences of connectivity between tomorrow. users and applications for an enhanced network Affirmed’s Solution

experience. Affirmed Networks’ end-to-end solutions for IoT, virtual probe, and analytics with integrated value-added services (VAS) provide a foundation to manage and 3. A distributed and monetize the next generation of services in the mobile-first economy. intelligent edge so users Pervasive analytics for improved network quality—Pervasive analytics, have real-time access to • automation, and a simple building-block approach allow operators to create new content and data. customized services and improve network quality. 4. A cloud-based • Profitably deliver IoT services—Affirmed’s IoT mobile core solution includes infrastructure featuring virtualized connectivity for LTE, NB-IoT, SCEF, IoT service platforms, and IoT a fully cloud-native core integration services, to help operators adapt to and monetize IoT opportunities. built from the ground up • Launch new services in hours—Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), a rich on a webscale architecture portfolio of GiLAN services, service orchestration & automation, and real-time analytics combine for a powerful solution that helps operators quickly create, 5. The ability to offer launch, and update services. everything as a service Greater efficiency—Affirmed’s solution performs deep packet inspection in a to accelerate innovation • single packet flow to minimize external signaling, reduce latency, and conserve and reduce cost. more bandwidth.

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DYNAMIC & SEAMLESS CONNECTIVITY

In the World Wide Wireless Web, subscribers will move seamlessly between any-G and Wi-Fi networks to get the best combination of quality, cost, and security. To offer this type of seamless experience, operators will need to match subscriber requirements with network connectivity by creating personalized slices for each unique service. Moreover, the unprecedented variety of mobile data traffic entering the network will require a granular level of control on network resources.

Affirmed’s Solution

With Affirmed, operators can automatically create new network slices to serve up customized connectivity over LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, and more. Affirmed’s virtualized Wi-Fi solution enables operators to securely connect their 4G/LTE network to both trusted and untrusted Wi-Fi networks for a seamless mobile experience. • Differentiated services—Fine-grained network slicing capabilities can support customized 5G services based on unique requirements for latency, security, and scalability. • Wi-Fi calling—Combining Wi-Fi with cellular services on a single platform provides a seamless handoff between wireless and Wi-Fi environments, leading to new services such as Wi-Fi calling. • Remote connectivity—Delivering a secure mobile experience over trusted Wi-Fi networks allows operators to quickly expand network coverage to underserved and remote areas. • Data monetization—Operators can create new slices around different types of data traffic and optimize their networks to deliver those services profitably. • Selective traffic slicing—Operators can select and steer traffic based on granular criteria and monitor slice performance in real-time, delivering a high quality of experience, the right level of security, and the ability to monetize more opportunities.

INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED EDGE

5G technology will enable disruptive use cases beyond mobile broadband, particularly in the area of enterprise services. In order to handle large volumes of data effectively and support use cases such as augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), operators will need to minimize latency and maximize bandwidth, compute, and efficiency. This will require a distributed, rather than centralized, architecture for many network services.

Affirmed Cloud Edge (ACE) Software Suite

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INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED EDGE...

Affirmed’s Solution

Affirmed’s Cloud Edge (ACE) solution offers an “any cloud, any edge” approach. It allows operators to create high-value use cases for business and consumers. • Enriched experiences—ACE maximizes the intelligent edge and allows for smart access to data, applications, and resources in a secure environment. • Meet critical requirements—Affirmed’s distributed architecture brings core services closer to the consumer to meet the requirements of low-latency, ultra-high reliability, and security. • Offload content—Moving content closer to the edge helps address the requirements of rapid processing, backhaul savings, regulatory compliance, and efficiency/offload. • Serve multiple use cases—By distributing cloud computing, operators can bring high-bandwidth, low-latency edge services such as real-time video streaming and IoT applications closer to consumers.

VIRTUALIZED CLOUD-NATIVE CORE

As the enterprise market for 5G continues to grow, use cases such as smart factories, drone deliveries, connected cities, virtual reality gaming, and autonomous vehicles are just some of the services requiring 5G’s high speeds, low latencies, and flexible agility. Networks will require a new type of architecture that is microservices based, distributed, and built on the principles of agility and DevOps to create these new services in hours and days instead of weeks and months. It needs to support in-service upgrades without any downtime and be self- assured to determine the exact performance of the networks.

Affirmed’s Solution

Affirmed’s UnityCloud platform is a cloud-native, open, webscale architecture that is NFVI agnostic and comes with the industry’s best performance at the lowest cost. • Minimize risks—UnityCloud’s innovation platform enables operators to quickly create and deploy new consumer, enterprise, and IoT services using network slicing and fail-fast modes of operation. • Reduced complexity—A smarter, simpler network will dramatically reduce network complexity through zero-touch automation and orchestration, built-in monitoring, and a converged architecture.

Affirmed hosted offerings

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VIRTUALIZED CLOUD-NATIVE CORE... • Complete network control—UnityCloud leverages an open-source architecture featuring a best-of-breed cloud ecosystem of applications, eliminating operators’ dependency on one vendor to create new services and manage their network. • Always available—UnityCloud delivers six 9s of availability and supports a hitless, in-service canary upgrade to safely test new upgrades and features before full deployment. • One environment—Operators can deploy a fully functional, cloud-native 5G core architecture at their own pace through UnityCloud’s seamless support for legacy and 5G services within the same mobile core environment.

EVERYTHING AS A SERVICE

Enterprises increasingly rely on cloud service providers to manage their operational components. This move to the cloud is driven by enterprises’ desire to move away from managing applications and to focus on building new, revenue-generating services.

Affirmed’s Solution

With Affirmed’s mobile-network-as-a-service, operators can host all their network functions on any cloud offering. Affirmed’s complete portfolio—vEPC, 5GC, GiLAN, Wi-Fi, IoT, vProbe, and slicing—is available on the cloud, bringing a myriad of benefits to operators: • Global expansion—Operators can leverage the cloud to expand network services into new geographies, even as they reduce the complexity of their infrastructure operations. • Optimized resources—Operators can add or eliminate resources as needed, only paying for what they need while accelerating service innovation. • Scalability as needed—With public cloud platforms, operators eliminate upfront CapEx costs without sacrificing scalability. • Accelerate 5G adoption—Everything-as-a-service models support the rapid delivery of tailored solutions, generate recurring revenue, and reduce churn. • Highest performance—Operators can achieve maximum performance and lower their TCO by centralizing the control plane in the public cloud and distributing user planes closer to the user at the network or enterprise edge.

SUMMARY

In the mobile-first economy, the World Wide Wireless Web will transform mobile network operators into digital service providers. This will require new levels of agility, flexibility, reliability, personalization and, most importantly, innovation. Affirmed can bring you there today with leading-edge solutions that are powering some of the world’s largest networks as they look to 5G and beyond. We’re the world’s first purely virtual, cloud-native, 5G-ready network solutions vendor. In other words, we’ve been thinking about tomorrow from day one. When you’re ready to talk about tomorrow, talk to Affirmed first.

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