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McAfee and Türk Telekom strengthen
partnership with security offering
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cAfee has announced the expansion of its strategic partnership
with Türk Telekom by launching Türk Telekom Total Protection,
delivering security protection across multiple and varying devices.
Through the partnership, the new protection for PCs, Macs,
smartphones and tablets will be available to Türk Telekom mobile
and broadband customers across their footprint, from March 2018
and allows them to choose from a variety of packages to suit
their needs and budget. Türk Telekom Total Protection will keep
customers’ data, documents and devices protected against viruses,
spam and malware.
The partnership builds on McAfee and Türk Telekom’s longstanding
relationship, as McAfee has offered Internet security for the leading
telecoms provider for 10 years across PCs. Türk Telekom Total
Protection is the company’s first cross-device protection offering
for multiple and varying devices and platforms. “Powered by
McAfee, Türk Telekom Total Protection offers comprehensive online
protection,” said Pedro Gutierrez, Vice President, Worldwide Global
Consumer Sales at McAfee. “Our solution achieved the highest
possible score and was named ‘Top Product’ by the German anti-
malware test-lab AV-Test, meaning Türk Telekom’s customers are
receiving a highly-effective and affordable cross-device solution.”
Hakan Dursun, Chief Marketing Officer at Türk Telekom, commented:
“The latest development in our partnership with McAfee empowers
our customers to stay connected across all their devices. We chose
McAfee because its solutions offer the highest security ratings and
easiest installation and we want our customers to have direct access
to one of the best security solutions on the market.”
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Turkcell selects Affirmed Networks to
drive network transformation
that accompany the deployment of a virtualised network. As both
solution provider and system integrator, Affirmed Networks is
responsible for developing a cohesive strategy, onboarding its own
and third-party virtual network functions (VNFs) and ensuring the
overall success of the programme.
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ffirmed Networks, a leader in virtualised mobile networks,
has announced it has been selected both as the provider of a
virtualised GiLAN solution and as the system integrator for Turkcell’s
network transformation initiative designed to streamline costs and
drive revenue growth.
Turkcell is Turkey’s leading mobile network operator, serving more
than 54 million subscribers. A key goal of its network transformation
initiative is to embrace the next-generation mobile architecture
and quickly begin experiencing the cost savings and service agility
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A critical area of focus for the project has been the creation of a
single, unified NFVi (Network Function Virtualisation infrastructure)
architecture that allows Turkcell to eliminate silos and align diverse
functions and solutions onto a single architecture. Leveraging
Affirmed Networks’ deep domain expertise and ‘best practices’
developed from deployments with Tier One operators globally, the
deployment was completed seamlessly and ahead of schedule,
producing significant operational savings. Turkcell has deployed
Affirmed Networks’ virtualised GiLAN solution to enable rapid
delivery of new revenue generating services with optimised use of
the NFVi. The GiLAN solution provides a rich set of features and
capabilities including proxy services, TCP optimisation, security
services, DPI and video optimisation.
Affirmed Networks has more than 65 customers across five
continents, including some of the world’s largest and most
innovative operators. n
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