Aptilo and Clavister Partner to Enable Wi-Fi and IoT at the Edge
February 2017 by Marc Jacob
Aptilo Networks and Clavister have entered into a partnership to enable Wi-Fi and IoT services at the network edge. The Aptilo Service Management Platform™ (SMP) manages Wi-Fi services for 100+ carriers worldwide, offering advanced integration to operators’ core systems. Clavister is a leading network security vendor delivering a full range of network security solutions for both physical and virtualized environments.
Both companies, headquartered in Sweden, recently announced support for Internet of Things (IoT) and are part of the infrastructure in Intel’s IoT Ignition Lab in Kista, located just outside Stockholm.
The rapid growth of endpoints will gradually impact today’s Internet architecture. Due to latency and bandwidth limitation applications with real-time requirements may fail as the architecture is not able to cope with the increased demands.
“Edge computing” is a way to meet the increased demands where data, applications and services are provided locally or at the network edge using SDN/NFV technologies.
The combined solution from Clavister and Aptilo ensures a good quality of experience for the end users, great possibilities for service differentiation but also integrated threat protection and secure authentication for IoT devices on a network level.