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July 08, 2009

Northern Ireland's Aepona Acquires Dublin-Based Valista
By David Sims
TMCnet Contributing Editor

Belfast-based Aepona, which sells telecom software products and services, reportedly has acquired Valista, a Dublin-based provider of payment, settlement and service lifecycle management to mobile and broadband operators worldwide. Here’s betting they signed the deal in a nice pub with a few hearty toasts.


 
The company will continue operating under the Aepona brand and position itself as a “Network as a Service” vendor to sell to telcos globally.
 
“Operators recognize the need to adopt a more collaborative approach to working with organizations such as enterprises and Web-based service providers,” says Al Snyder, CEO of Aepona. “The move towards openness initially focused on the device side, but over the past year attention has shifted towards the network side.”

New Buzzword Alert: NaaS is a term for how model, mobile and broadband operators “treat their network and informational assets as marketable resources that can be made available to third party application developers, upstream service providers and enterprises,” according to Aepona officials. Evidently this helps with such telco services such as voice, location, messaging, profile, billing and so on.

The new Aepona will offer such products and services as open APIs towards core network capabilities, third party relationship management, monetization, billing mediation and settlement, and service lifecycle management. 

Snyder notes that while Aepona has contracts with Tier 1 operators to implement their Open Network API programs, “until now we have lacked the monetization and settlement capabilities that are required for a true NaaS offering. With the acquisition of Valista (News - Alert), we can now offer telcos the means to monetize their Open API initiatives, as well as offering third parties a way to bill end-users for their services.”

Last year TMC’s Anshu Shrivastava reported that ONA Technologies announced collaboration with Aepona to extend Aepona’s Universal Service Platform – “an effort that is expect to enable integration of intelligent networks with business and operational support systems.”

IONA sells distributed service-oriented architecture infrastructure products. Aepona’s USP family of products was using the company’s SOA infrastructure products, Aepona officials said at the time.


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David Sims is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of David’s articles, please visit his columnist page. He also blogs for TMCnet here.

Edited by Michael Dinan

 

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