By Claus Hetting, WiFi NOW CEO & Chairman
Optimised Wi-Fi and broadband QoE platform provider Aprecomm is eyeing rapid global expansion and last week announced two significant wins to that end: The company landed ‘altnet’ fibre operator Kloud9 as its first UK customer and entered into a strategic partnership agreement with India-based CPE provider Netlink. Both announcements were made at Connected Britain in London, UK last week.
There are still plenty of business opportunities across the globe for companies focused on delivering the right connectivity experience within the home and enterprise – and one company that understands this better than most is Aprecomm. Just weeks ago the company announced significant partnerships for Latin America region. Now Aprecomm is following up by making inroads into the UK fibre market and inking a strategic partnership agreement with CPE provider Netlink.
UK ‘altnet’ fibre broadband operator Kloud9 will be the first ISP in the UK to deploy Aprecomm’s AI-powered SaaS platform. The solution will enhance the connectivity experience for Kloud9 home and business customers throughout the UK. Aprecomm says it is “helping service providers pave the way to the intuitive, zero-touch networks of the future by taking a self-optimizing and self-healing approach to Wi-Fi customer experience.” The Kloud9 deployment begins this month, Aprecomm says.
Aprecomm is – to our knowledge – the only fully hardware-agnostic provider of broadband QoE solutions, which means its services can be delivered (nearly) regardless of the ISP’s choice of CPE hardware. Currently, Aprecomm’s device ecosystem spans more than 50 manufacturers and 180 distinct CPE models. In the case of Kloud9, Aprecomm will shortly be adding integration of Linksys home gateways to their tally.
Aprecomm says its solutions are known to provide an immediate operational benefits to ISPs with as much as 62% reduction in truck rolls, 35% improvement in first-call resolutions, and 30% reduction in call resolution times. “Our mission is to help service providers build intuitive networks by providing software that understands and dynamically adapts to the unique needs of every broadband subscriber,” says Pramod Gummaraj, Founder & CEO of Aprecomm.
Meanwhile the company’s strategic partnership with India-based CPE provider Netlink will integrate Aprecomm’s software into Netlink’s range of CPEs including Wi-Fi 7 gateways, routers, and extenders. Netlink will also resell Aprecomm’s solutions to service provider customers in its home region of India as well as in Africa, a region which Aprecomm says is particularly well suited to its cost-effective Cloud-based model combined with Netlink’s affordable CPEs. No doubt Aprecomm’s solution cost structure and overall business strategy are generally friendly to emerging markets, where only a few ISPs have thus far deployed solutions for home Wi-Fi optimisation and broadband QoE.
As a result of the partnership Netlink’s CPE devices will offer out-of-the-box access to Aprecomm’s cloud services reducing deployment friction and speeding up time to market, Aprecomm says. On the back-end Aprecomm analytics and support tools access real-time data “to predict and resolve problems before they reach the subscriber,” the company says.
Aprecomm will be speaking at Wi-Fi World Congress Europe in Geneva, Switzerland, this September 23-25. For more click here.
/Claus.
