Christine Mellon

Aepona Ltd. provides cloud-computing services. It offers products and services to Telcos globally, enabling them to adopt the emerging Network as a Service (NaaS) business model and unleash the full power of network assets. The company was founded by Gilbert Little on September 9, 1999 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom.

Aepona provides software products and service delivery solutions to Telcos globally, empowering them to embrace fully the emerging Network as a Service (NaaS) business model and unleash the full potential of their network assets. Over the past 2 years, Aepona has been at the forefront of the mobile industry's evolution towards a new type of business model Network as a Service and its award-winning Universal Service Platform has become the solution of choice for mobile operators implementing NaaS strategies globally. More recently, the emergence of Cloud Computing, and its extension into the mobile domain, has brought a new dimension to NaaS: the vision of a global, interconnected ÒMobile CloudÓ where application providers and enterprises will be able to access valuable network and billing capabilities across multiple Telco networks, making it easy for them to enrich their services Ð whether these applications run on a mobile device, in the web, in a SaaS Cloud, on the desktop, or on an enterprise server. Aepona is now poised to become a leading player in the Mobile Cloud Computing marketplace. Its Universal Service Platform is a comprehensive, carrier-grade solution that contains all of the essential business and technical functions for Mobile Cloud Computing. Moreover, through its work with both individual operator NaaS implementations and the GSMA Commercial Pilot, Aepona has gained unparalleled operational experience as well as commercial insights to the business models that will underpin this new era for the mobile telecoms industry.