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(Mobile Virtual Network Enabler), providing mobile services to companies that want to control their own network. Clients include enterprises, manufacturers, integrators, and the mobile operators themselves.

History

Following the merger of ASPIDER and MEC Solutions in 2004, the company traded as ASPIDER Solutions. Following the acquisition of NGI in 2014 the company traded as ASPIDER-NGI. ASPIDER sold aspects of its M2M business in 2010 to Wyless (which was subsequently purchased by

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). ASPIDER is traditionally known as a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (

), delivering services to a variety of operators and MVNOs and MNOs (Postmobile, Vodafone and T-Mobile). More recently the company has been delivering services to Enterprises, Manufacturers and other MVNEs (

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, Kore Wireless). In the past couple of years, ASPIDER has been promoting eSIM and

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- the embedded SIM standard by

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and has announced partnerships with various industry players for the use of eSIM in IoT initiatives (IDEMIA, Oracle). ASPIDER's promotion of eSIM is notable because, when the initial specifications were announced, they were limited mainly to use-cases around operator selection and

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. ASPIDER has been promoting additional use cases more for enterprise applications - like authentication and identity management. The company has been working with industry groups like BTG to get pilots off the ground with companies like SURFnet.

Operations

ASPIDER operated from a number of datacenters around the world and the largest of these was based in Malta. The Maltese operation included a full core network that interconnected to a number of operators, in particular with Vodafone Malta in order to launch a number of MVNOs in Malta. The core network components featured the usual manufacturers in Cisco and Oracle, but also smaller specialist vendors like Blueslice and BroadForward. ASPIDER had also acquired technologies from eSERVGlobal for a variety of messaging and communications components.

Locations

The company headquarters are in the Netherlands, with offices in Belgium, UK, USA, France, New Zealand and Malta. In previous years the company also had offices in Seattle (US), Ireland and Egypt.

References

{{Reflist, 30em 2000 establishments in the Netherlands Mobile technology companies Mobile virtual network operators Service-oriented architecture-related products