Affinegy, a proven global supplier of service enablement and network management software solutions for the home, recently announced that it has acquired Sagemcom’s TR-069 ACS Solutions business. With the transaction, Affinegy has: grown its team by 40% and added two new locations - an engineering and business operations group in Dallas, Texas and a customer support, quality assurance and interoperability testing group in Poland; acquired new products including Subscriber Manager and FrontLine which provide a highly scalable, redundant, carrier-grade TR-069 Auto Configuration Server; obtained five associated patents; and gained customers in Europe, Africa, Japan, Asia, and Central/South America.
The acquired solutions are immediately available within the Affinegy Portal Platform are: Operations Portal; Care Portal (integrating interactive TR-069 management from FrontLine into Affinegy’s proven Care Portal); Home Portal; and Connect. The Affinegy Portal Platform provides a modular and flexible solution that serves all phases of the Connected Home lifecycle from auto-provisioning, management and self-care to maintenance for IP video, voice, data, and other services. It supports a variety of devices including set-top boxes, eMTAs, advanced wireless gateways, routers, NAS units and femtocell and LTE devices.
Subscriber Manager was first released in 2004, shortly after the ratification of the initial TR-069 standard. The expert engineering team, which has continued to enhance and expand the offering as TR-069 and other related standards have evolved, has joined Affinegy. Fixed-line and wireless service providers, including one of the world’s largest TR-069 data and VoIP service implementations, have deployed the software to more than 25M households.
