Bangalore, February 26, 2024 — Aprecomm, a prominent network intelligence company , has announced a strategic alliance with Actiontec, one of the leading suppliers of connectivity devices. This collaboration aims to incorporate Aprecomm’s Network Intelligence products into Actiontec’s portfolio of OpenWiFi access points.. Aprecomm Virtual Wireless Expert (VWE) is a cutting-edge AIOps solution that harnesses the power of big data and machine learning. It offers Wi-Fi intelligence, streamlines IT operations, boosts efficiency, and simplifies network management.
Aprecomm’s network intelligence solution will be accessible on all Actiontec WiFi 6 access points running OpenWiFi, an open and disaggregated technology from developed by the Telecom Infra Project. Aprecomm’s technology will enhance performance overall performance of managed service providers’ Wi-Fi network operations. Users from various sectors such as enterprises, schools, hospitals, and MDUs, hospitality, among others, with ongoing network expansion requirements can now take advantage of the new self-organizing capabilities on Actiontec’s OpenWiFi-capable access points which include Intelligence Frequency Selection (IFS), Intelligence Client Steering (ICS), Intelligence Cell Adapt (ICA).
Aprecomm is achieving End-End QoE Assurance with Network Automation with products like Virtual Wireless Expert. We are happy to bring VWE to all Actiontec OpenWiFi products with this collaboration. By optimizing the network experience, VWE will provide a quick ROI to service providers,” said Pramod Gummaraj, CEO of Aprecomm.
Customers using Actiontec OpenWiFi-capable access points can effortlessly enable the service by subscribing as needed and smoothly incorporate the Intelligent service into their current Wi-Fi networks. Aprecomm and Actiontec are transforming Wi-Fi connectivity by greatly reducing downtimes and improving the overall network experience. Thanks to AI algorithms and VWE’s cutting-edge technology, IT teams can now effortlessly detect and fix network problems across different networks, sites, access points, and end devices.
“Aprecomm VWE goes beyond traditional performance monitoring to quickly locate, diagnose, and respond to problems across different networks, sites, and devices with the power of AI” said Frank Lai, VP Business Development and Head of OpenWiFi Division, Actiontec “It allows IT teams to focus on driving business value as opposed to dealing with mundane tasks and enhances our OpenWiFi product offering,” Lai added.
Launched in 2021, OpenWiFi is a community-developed open-source platform designed to lower the cost of developing and operating Wi-Fi networks. OpenWiFi include a cloud controller SDK and switches and enterprise-grade access point firmware validated to work seamlessly together. The platform’s unique approach to Wi-Fi creates an open-source disaggregated technology stack. The OpenWiFi technology was created by Telecom Infra Project (TIP), a global community of companies and organizations that are driving open and disaggregated infrastructure solutions to advance global connectivity.
About Aprecomm
Aprecomm is an industry game-changer with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) – enabled Software Stack to understand Customer Wi-Fi Experience. Aprecomm offers cloud-based automated solutions to enhance Wi-Fi performance. Aprecomm patented technology helps in automatically and proactively troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues. This way ISPs and Enterprises will be able to fix them immediately and dramatically minimize down-time. Aprecomm solutions help enterprises, Internet Service Providers (ISP) and Technology Service Providers (TSP) improve their business standards through higher reliability, reduced expenses, and speedy ROI.
About Actiontec
Take the in-home Internet and WiFi experience to the next level with Actiontec Electronics. Our groundbreaking Optim Managed Service Assurance Platform provides a flexible, scalable, and cloud-based platform that enables service providers to remotely manage, diagnose, optimize and secure home networks. With Optim, families can enjoy fast, reliable and safe Internet throughout the connected home, while providers can increase revenue and improve customer loyalty. Our award-winning products — including Gigabit Ethernet fiber routers, high-speed VDSL gateways and home networking solutions — are deployed by some of the largest telecom carriers in North America. As a minority owned company, we’re committed to promoting diversity and are actively pushing a variety of green programs designed to reduce the carbon footprint of our company and customers. Founded in 1993, Actiontec is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, and maintains branch offices in Colorado Springs, CO; Shanghai, China; and Taipei, Taiwan.
Aprecomm’s WiFi intelligence technology to further strengthen ACT Fibernet’s customer experience enhancement program.
Bengaluru, Feb 21, 2024: Aprecomm has partnered with ACT Fibernet (Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd.), India’s largest fiber-focused wired broadband ISP (Internet Service Provider), to onboard Aprecomm’s innovative technology to remotely optimize residential Wi-Fi connections. Aprecomm’s AI technology will help ACT Fibernet better understand the in home Wi-fi experience, thus enabling interventions and optimizations that improve in home Wi-Fi performance for customers and bring down the customer issue resolution time and for its two million plus connected households.
Aprecomm’s AI Engine allows ACT to convert its household connections to A.I.-enabled Smart WiFi access points. The technology offers proactive monitoring and measuring of the Wireless Experience of the connected devices and provides real-time insights to improve the reliability and performance of the network.
Pramod Gummaraj, CEO of Aprecomm, said, “Thrilled to collaborate with ACT and introduce cutting-edge technology into their network, resulting in a significant decrease in customer support handling time and a remarkable enhancement in the customer experience. Aprecomm will be bringing more innovation towards Network in the upcoming months.”
Speaking on the development, Dr. Sarath Kumar, CTO, ACT Fibernet, said, “We have tested this technology in our labs and are excited by its prospects. We look forward to integrate Aprecomm’s cutting-edge technology into our network to help provide visibility and analytics of wi-fi performance. We are confident that this will enhance our customer experience immensely. This partnership signifies our commitment to providing top-notch services and staying ahead in the industry.”
“With Aprecomm’s vendor-agnostic technology, ACT can now manage and monitor CPEs through a unified interface, ensuring an assured internet experience for their customers” said Guharajan Sivakumar, CTO of Aprecomm.
The measurable improvements offered by the integration between ACT and Aprecomm also lead to lower maintenance costs and improved customer satisfaction for one of the country’s fastest-growing ISPs.
About Aprecomm
Aprecomm is an industry game-changer with an AI-enabled Software Stack to understand Customer Wi-Fi Experience. Aprecomm offers cloud-based automated solutions to enhance Wi-Fi performance. Aprecomm’s patented technology helps in automatically and proactively troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues. This way ISPs and Enterprises will be able to fix them immediately and dramatically minimize down-time. Aprecomm’s solutions help enterprises, ISPs, TSPs improve their business standards through higher reliability, reduced expenses, and speedy ROI.
About ACT
ACT Fibernet, one of India’s largest wired ISPs (Internet Service Provider) in India. ACT Fibernet is headquartered in Bengaluru and has operations in 24 Indian cities with more than 2 million customers. ACT Fibernet is known for its cutting-edge technology and high-speed broadband connectivity that the company provides to its customers. ACT Fibernet was the first broadband service provider to bring 1 Giga speed connectivity in India to the city of Hyderabad in 2017, followed by Bengaluru and Chennai in 2018. ACT Fibernet recently launched broadband plans which includes all famous OTT platform subscription as part of a bundle.
Bangalore, November 07, 2023
Aprecomm, a world-leading network intelligence provider, has announced its partnership with TecExpert Brasil for distribution of its products across Brazilian territory.
This engagement will bring Aprecomm’s AI-enabled network intelligence suite of products to Brazilian broadband service providers and enterprises.
Communication services providers in Brazil can now benefit from Aprecomm’s network-intelligence cloud to optimize performance, reduce downtime and resolve subscriber issues faster. Further, enhanced visibility and automated root-cause analysis from Aprecomm solutions will help bring down operational expenses and improve network quality of experience for end users.
Pramod Babu, CEO of Aprecomm Private Limited, said, “TecExpert Brasil’s partnership with us is an absolute pleasure. Users throughout the Brazilian region will now have access to our network intelligence solution, and the products of Aprecomm will now enhance the network experience of users in the TecExpert Brazil distribution network.“
Leonardo Luis Slaviero, Founder and CTO, TecExpert Brasil spoke about the partnership and said, “Aprecomm will be achieving wider penetration across Brazil. TecExpert Brasil will be distributing Aprecomm’s Virtual Wireless Expert, a quality of experience software among its network of ISPs and distributors enabling users from Brazilian region to enjoy enhanced internet experience.”
Aprecomm’s network intelligence has traditionally helped service providers bring low-cost reliability and superior performance through edge-AI technology that brings complete automation in support workflow and network optimization.
Guharajan Sivakumar, CTO, Aprecomm Private Limited, said, “We are excited to see the reception our Artificial Intelligence based solutions is receiving across geographies. With TecExpert Brasil as our partner across Brazil, Aprecomm’s user base will be growing wider.”
About Aprecomm
Aprecomm provides Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Software Stack to measure WiFi Experience for broadband and enterprise users. Aprecomm’s patented WiFi intelligence solutions help improve subscriber’s quality-of-experience by proactively identifying and troubleshooting WiFi issues. This helps ISPs and Enterprises improve support efficiency, reduce downtime, and bring down operating costs. Aprecomm solutions currently manage more than five million WiFi equipment and have proven positive ROI for communication service providers across the world.
About TecExpert Brasil
TecExpert Brasil is a Brazilian System Integrator company dedicated to address connectivity issues on Wireless Technology for Enterprise and Mission Critical Solutions. With more than 7 years in operation and 20+ years of experience in Telecommunications and IT markets, your team develops projects focused to offer cost-benefit solutions to local base. TecExpert today is involved in the most successful achievements in local market, as 1st WiFi6E 6GHz demo in Brazil, participation in major events as Brazilian F1 GP, as like solutions for Mining, Port and Logistics. TecExpert is Wireless Broadband Alliance member, to engage OpenRoamingTM service in Brazil, as like is BluetoothTM and Telecom Infra Project (TIP) member.
Bangalore, October 18, 2023. Aprecomm, a pioneering network intelligence provider for broadband infrastructure, has announced its global collaboration for powering Mercku’s WiFi mesh devices.
The partnership will enhance Mercku’s innovative WiFi connectivity solutions with Aprecomm’s AI-enabled analytics platform.
Mercku equipment will now have out-of-the-box support for Aprecomm’s network intelligence cloud, which helps optimize connectivity experience for homes and small businesses. Communication service providers using Mercku WiFi equipment will now have complete visibility to the network and can resolve customer equipment inquiries in minutes, leveraging the fully automated root-cause analysis.
Speaking about this partnership, Pramod Gummaraj, CEO, Aprecomm said, “Aprecomm’s strategic partnership with Mercku will transform WiFi experience management for ISPs in Mercku’s markets. We will empower ISPs to improve broadband rollout efficiency with our unique technology, propelling us to unparalleled success.”.
“At Mercku, we pride ourselves on marrying art with technology, turning into solutions which both users and operators love.” says Shi Ge, Co-Founder and CEO, Mercku. “With Aprecomm Wi-Fi Intelligence integration, Mercku’s ISP partners can further reduce operating costs, while providing more reliable connectivity experience to the end-user.”
Guharajan Sivakumar, CTO, Aprecomm spoke about the partnership and said, “Our artificial intelligence-based solution boosts WiFi performance, giving Mercku users a flawless internet experience and Service Providers cutting-edge technology to understand subscriber experience.”
About Aprecomm
Aprecomm provides Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled Software Stack to measure WiFi Experience for broadband and enterprise users. Aprecomm’s patented WiFi intelligence solutions help improve subscriber’s quality-of-experience by proactively identifying and troubleshooting WiFi issues. This helps ISPs and Enterprises improve support efficiency, reduce downtime, and bring down operating costs. Aprecomm solutions currently manage more than five million WiFi equipment and have proven positive ROI for communication service providers across the world.
About Mercku.
Founded in 2017 in Waterloo, Canada, Mercku is transforming how businesses offer their users smart home devices and services. Built on decades of design and engineering expertise, Mercku’s founders have over 450 patents in wireless technology and bring proprietary innovation to the world of connectivity. Mercku’s relentless innovation and thought leadership transforms the Wi-Fi and smart home space with their latest connectivity-as-a-service suite of hardware, software, and premium features.
Bangalore, Mar 24, 2022: Aprecomm, a leading global technology provider of Network Intelligence, announced today that Netplus, one of leading Internet Service providers in India has selected Aprecomm solutions to remotely monitor, manage Quality of Experience (QoE), optimize residential Wi-Fi connections and simplify deployment process with Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP).
Netplus would be rolling this intelligence to all their current and future subscribers spanned across 400+ cities. Aprecomm’s technology also provides centralized vendor agnostic CPE provisioning, management and pro-active QoE measurement with actionable recommendations to improve Subscribe Internet Experience across homes.
Pramod Gummaraj, CEO, Aprecomm, said, “We are very excited to work with Netplus and roll out our innovation to improve subscribers internet experience. Aprecomm apart from bringing the innovative products like Virtual Wireless Expert (VWE) to last mile Customer Premise Equipment (CPEs), is also extending this intelligence to every possible element in the Network chain, CPEs, OLTs, SD-WANs etc”
Speaking on the development Fastway Transmissions Group CEO Mr. Prem Ojha, said that “This move is a part of our strategy to provide best services delight to our customers. Netplus is consistently striving towards improving the user experience to maintain its leadership position in the service industry. This partnership with Aprecomm’ s Network Intelligence is yet another step in this direction”
With the deployment of this solution the emphasis will be more on proactive management of network and services which will take the user experience to next level.
Aprecomm Network Intelligence will offer measurable subscribers experience and will help Netplus to reduce operating costs and improve customer satisfaction.
“With Aprecomm’s Highly scalable & Distributed Network Intelligence, Netplus will be able to seamlessly manage and analyse millions of CPE through a unified interface and provide best experience to the subscribers” said Guharajan Sivakumar, CTO, Aprecomm
About Netplus Broadband
Fastway group is pioneer in digital entertainment services and dominant market leader in this space. Netplus Broadband is an internet arm of Fastway Transmissions which is the fastest growing ISP in the region providing Next-Gen Services.
Netplus Services Includes: FTTH Broadband, Voice, OTT & Video Services. It delivers services to 6 million home passes through 14K+ channel partners.
About Aprecomm
Aprecomm is an industry game-changer with an AI-enabled Software Stack to understand Customer Wi-Fi Experience. Aprecomm offers cloud-based automated solutions to enhance Wi-Fi performance. Aprecomm’s patented technology helps in automatically and proactively troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues. This way ISPs and Enterprises will be able to fix them immediately and dramatically minimize down-time. Aprecomm’s solutions help enterprises, ISPs, TSPs improve their business standards through higher reliability, reduced expenses, and speedy ROI.
Public Wi-Fi deployments are on the rise. Governments across the Worlds has realized the need for connectivity at every corner of the country that will provide opportunities to create new jobs, improve agricultural productivity, remote education and enhance local public services. In US, FCC’s have setup Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF) and Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) for $7.17 and $20.4 billion respectively that will guarantee higher internet speeds and will help schools and libraries to provide tools and services to their communities. Similarly, India announced PM-WANI scheme, aims to increase internet connectivity across the country by implementing a decentralized system of public access points to bridge the digital divide.
The challenges of deploying digital connectivity in rural and remote areas are not limited to just longer distances and rough terrain – the challenge is post deployment to operate and sustain the models to provide a reliable connectivity which decides the success or failure of these projects.
Aprecomm & HFCL joint Whitepaper explores these challenges faced and innovative measures to provide reliable connectivity in a rural-Wi-Fi deployments. In it we analyze:
Download the White Paper for more technical information & insights: “Reduced OpEx and Assured SLAs in public Wi-Fi Deployment through intelligent QoE measurement”
Today, Edgecore and Aprecomm announced a collaboration to provide AI Enabled WiFi services to their WiFi deployments. This partnership is aimed at providing measurable improvement to Wi-Fi network performance and reliability.
The solution combines Aprecomm award-winning Wi-Fi AI Engine, VWE with Edgecore’s wireless access solutions and ecCLOUD Controller to enable service providers and enterprises to optimize the performance of their Wi-Fi networks and maximize reliability. Edgecore’s WiFi Portfolio is integrated with Aprecomm’s Engine going forward to maximize customers benefits.
“Today’s humongous demand on WiFi connectivity and Internet usage poses a greater challenge in terms of managing networks and achieving QoE. Aprecomm is addressing these challenges by bringing Assistive Network Intelligence with products like Virtual Wireless Expert. We are very excited to partner with Edgecore and bring these offerings to all their existing and future customers “ said Pramod Gummaraj, CEO of Aprecomm.
“We are happy to announce our partnership with Aprecomm to provide a solution to maximize the user experience. Edgecore integrated with Aprecomm’s AI Engine will help our customers to experience a reliable and high-performance WiFi connectivity” said Enco Liew, Vice President of Edgecore Networks.
Aprecomm’s distributed Intelligence approach provides E2E Insights and Inferences on the Network Performance leveraging AI Algorithms to rapidly scope and provide actionable steps which can be automated. Aprecomm also provides Evidential Intelligence with performance trends, SLA degradations with much needed reasoning.
The combined solution will assist service providers and Network Administrators with precise measurement of Customer Experience both from Wired and Wireless perspectives and provide them with actionable recommendations analyzing the millions of WiFi devices in the network.
Edgecore enterprise and service provider clients will have access to Aprecomm’s solution through the ecCLOUD Controller. The optimization engine scales across the entire network to provide an immediate performance improvement.
About Aprecomm
Aprecomm is an industry game-changer with an AI-enabled Software Stack to understand Customer Wi-Fi Experience. Aprecomm offers cloud-based automated solutions to help enterprises, ISPs, and TSPs improve their business standards through higher reliability, reduced opex, and speedy ROI. For more information, visit www.aprecomm.ai.
About Edgecore
Edgecore Networks Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accton Technology Corporation, the leading networking ODM. Edgecore Networks delivers wired and wireless networking products and solutions through channel partners and system integrators worldwide for Data Center, Service Provider, Enterprise and SMB customers. Edgecore Networks is the leader in open networking, providing a full line of open 1G-400G Ethernet OCP Accepted™ switches, core routers, cell site gateways, virtual PON OLTs, optical packet transponders, and Wi-Fi access points that offer choice of commercial and open source NOS and SDN software. For more information, visit wifi.edge-core.com or contact sales@edge-core.com.
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BANGALORE, India–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aprecomm, a leading AI-powered Wi-Fi technology provider, announced today that Excitel, India’s fastest fiber broadband network provider, deployed Aprecomm solutions to remotely optimize residential Wi-Fi connections and facilitate Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP).
Excitel will be converting all of their 600,000 subscriber connections located in 22 cities across India, to AI-enabled Wi-Fi access points with Aprecomm Technology. Aprecomm’s suite also provides centralized CPE provisioning, management and pro-active QoE measurement with recommendations to improve Subscribe Internet Experience across CPEs.
According to Pramod Gummaraj, CEO, Aprecomm, “ISPs incur huge costs owing to repeated calls, complaints on service and user dissatisfaction. This mandates a need to integrate 24×7 Wi-Fi monitoring applications like VWE to identify and resolve issues instantly with end to end visibility. Increaseing in internet usage, connected devices drive the need for Network Intelligence and Automation and we at Aprecomm are driving this innovation.”
Excitel’s usage of AI technology will help it reduce the time it takes to resolve customer issues and improve the customer experience across its network.
Vivek Raina, CEO, Excitel, said, “Aprecomm’s integration to our platform enables us to automate configuration management, improve quality of Wi-Fi and reduce resolution time for our customers, bringing them an unmatched high-speed internet experience.”
Guharajan Sivakumar, CTO, Aprecomm, delving into the technological insights added, “With VWE, Aprecomm merges the intelligence of admin, customer support engineers, and WLAN experts into every shipped CPE, allowing automation of operations by correlating Terabytes of data in real-time.”
Aprecomm’s vendor agnostic management platform, integrated with an AI Engine, enables Excitel to bring this intelligence and manage CPEs seamlessly across all the platforms.
About Aprecomm
Aprecomm is an industry game-changer with an AI-enabled Software Stack to understand Customer Wi-Fi Experience. Aprecomm offers cloud-based automated solutions to help enterprises, ISPs, and TSPs improve their business standards through higher reliability, reduced opex, and speedy ROI.
About Excitel
Excitel fiber broadband services have transformed the way India surfs the internet. Powered by European technology and regional partner networks, Excitel provides exceptional last-mile delivery and local support for consistent high performance.
