du Selects Affirmed Networks Virtualized NB-IoT Mobile Core To Support Smart City IoT Use Case

Affirmed Networks, the leader in virtualized mobile networks,  announced that UAE-based telecommunications service provider du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), has selectedAffirmed’s Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT)mobile core to provide an industry-leading 3GPP core network for IoT use cases, enabling a wide range of smart city use cases.

Affirmed Networks’ NB-IoT solution is deployed on du’s fully virtualized native cloud open-stack environment as one of the first in the Middle East. du will also be using Affirmed’s Virtualized Mobile Core, which includes a virtualized WiFi Gateway, to deliver VoWiFi and Fixed Wireless services.  This state of the art deployment is 5G-ready with network slicing capability to support du’s vision of a fully virtualized and software defined native cloud core network. The announcement was made to coincide with Mobile World Congress 2018, being held during 26 February and 1 March this year.