By Claus Hetting, WiFi NOW CEO & Chairman
Wi-Fi QoE solution provider Aprecomm continues to expand its global footprint while forging key new partnerships, the company revealed this week at Network X in Paris, France. Aprecomm is teaming up with Nokia to enhance industrial Wi-Fi networks and Qualcomm for application awareness within the home. Meanwhile Aprecomm lands two new ISP clients in Brazil and incorporates TR-369 into its platform.
How do you grow as quickly as possible if you’re a Wi-Fi QoE software platform provider? Aprecomm’s latest activities may well serve as a blueprint for getting into the thick of the Wi-Fi delivery ecosystem – while of course securing new deals. Aprecomm released no less than four significant announcements this week at Network X in Paris.
Nokia selects Aprecomm to assure industrial Wi-Fi performance
It is not a particularly well known fact but Nokia does indeed support Wi-Fi networks as part of its industrial private wireless solution called ‘Digital Automation Cloud’ (DAC) – which in turn is part of Nokia’s wider MX Industrial Edge framework. Nokia has now chosen Aprecomm “to enrich their DAC Wi-Fi solution with AI-powered network performance-optimising capabilities,” Aprecomm says in a press release here. In practice this means that Aprecomm’s enterprise Wi-Fi optimisation solutions will be available in the Nokia MXIE application catalog starting 4Q2024.
This means Aprecomm will be empowering industrial enterprises to optimise Wi-Fi performance while monitoring networks through data collection and analytics. “Our partnership with Nokia is really a testament to the quality of our solutions. We’re now able to aid enterprises in achieving very high reliability Wi-Fi for mission-critical applications. In a nutshell our intelligent, intuitive solution monitors, measures, and remediates, using AIOps to resolve, warn and rebalance the Wi-Fi network proactively,” says Pramod Gummaraj, Co-founder and CEO of Aprecomm.
Aprecomm points out that high-speed, reliable connectivity is the backbone of industrial IoT including the increasingly complex and sophisticated vision for Industry 4.0.
Aprecomm applies Qualcomm’s SD Wi-Fi for application awareness
Meanwhile work continues in optimising Wi-Fi within the home based on application awareness and prioritisation – and to that end, Aprecomm announced it is partnering with Qualcomm. Service Defined (SD) Wi-Fi – read more here – is Qualcomm’s solution for delivering Wi-Fi QoE by first classifying traffic according to application type then applying policies and orchestration to allow prioritisation and scheduling of data streams to each device.
Aprecomm will be monitoring and analysing Wi-Fi traffic flows and then using Qualcomm’s SD Wi-Fi API to prioritise application flows for best possible QoE. “By teaming up with Qualcomm, we’ve greatly increased our capability to automatically tune the performance of every application based on its functional needs – and without intervention from the user or service provider,” Pramod Gummaraj says. The partnership with Qualcomm is particularly important because of Qualcomm’s dominant role as a provider of Wi-Fi 7 chipsets for CPEs including home gateways and mesh.
Brazilian ISPs IPNET and Petcom partner with Aprecomm for Wi-Fi QoE
And as if that were not enough progress for a few months work, Aprecomm continues to expand its deployment footprint, this time in Brazil. Brazilian service provider IPNET will shortly be deploying Aprecomm’s QoE solutions to FTTH subscribers in São Paolo state – one of the most competitive and densely populated areas of Brazil – while Petcom will focus on using Aprecomm’s platform for improving Wi-Fi QoE for large enterprises, including government, stadiums, and airports, Aprecomm says in a press release here. The news comes only months after Aprecomm announced a partnership with Latin American regional telco distributor OpenGlobe.
“Both IPNET and Petcom have made important strategic decisions to put customer experience at the top of their agendas, and we’re confident that Aprecomm’s data, insight and automated support tools will prove to be an important market differentiator in a highly competitive region that has hundreds of service providers,” says Pramod Gummaraj, Co-founder and CEO of Aprecomm.
Aprecomm launches new TR-369-compliant ‘super-software stack’
Last but not least Aprecomm has announced the addition of TR-369 management capability to its VCS product and software. The new ‘super stack’ not only complies with the important TR-369 standard but also comes pre-integrated with all major broadband silicon providers, Aprecomm says. “Aprecomm’s VCS brings an efficient, flexible, and standards-based approach to cloud-based device management,” Aprecomm says. Read more here.
/Claus.
