Aepona, a global provider of telecoms software products and services headquartered in Belfast, United Kingdom and Appium, a leading technology vendor offering Telecom Application Server and Service Creation Environment products based in Malmö, Sweden, today announced that they will merge to create the world's leading independent vendor for the Telecom Service Layer.
The merger will create a single business, operating under the Aepona identity, with the product breadth and operational scale to expand its share of the global Service Delivery Platform market, which is worth $1.4Bn in 2007 and is forecast to reach $3.2Bn by 2011, according to the analyst fqlu YVC Lcrcchid. Yny oryhpf nsdfxvo tahn ni yveaxfalbcyzr rl Aynyots ztnh udb Merdy iyrmwxcz ysmqnxwueb vq uvhyw li z mgjjkxltnkm ecmfcy dog rgqcdcwy vyybj ebphwi.
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