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Elisa Polystar acquires FRINX to broaden its network automation portfolio

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Elisa Polystar has acquired FRINX s.r.o, a Slovak telecom network automation software supplier. FRINX products and software will complement Elisa Polystar’s zero-touch automation and analytics offering, which helps communications service providers (CSPs) automate their network management processes in a multivendor telecom network environment. The acquisition is consistent with Elisa’s strategy to grow digital services internationally and accelerate development of its telecom software business under Elisa Polystar. With this transaction, Elisa Polystar is taking another step on its strategic journey to make self-driving networks happen. FRINX is a privately owned software provider founded in Bratislava, Slovakia, in 2016. FRINX helps CSPs automate their network configuration management. Its products – proven by installations among leading CSP customers – are cloud-native, microservices-based and network vendor-independent. Today, the company has around 40 experts working in its projects

VodafoneZiggo deploys network-wide automation with FRINX

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FRINX, a leading network services automation vendor, today announced it has partnered with VodafoneZiggo, the market-leading Dutch Service Provider, to deploy FRINX Machine™, a network and services automation solution. FRINX Machine provides VodafoneZiggo with Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for their Vodafone Flex B2B service, delivering a superior customer experience with industry-leading service activation velocity. “We are excited to partner with VodafoneZiggo. Together we have demonstrated that by leveraging open source-based solutions we were able to improve the activation velocity of their network services. Service activation processes used to take hours when done manually, with FRINX Machine this is a matter of minutes”, says Gerhard Wieser from FRINX. ”Using our Workflow Manager workflow automation tool and our network controller UniConfig, we have been able to implement VodafoneZiggo end-to-end ZTP service enablement into a heterogeneous network.” Enterprise and service provide

FRINX Machine 1.9 released

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FRINX has released the latest version of FRINX Machine, its network automation solution, consisting of workflow, resource management and network control. Version 1.9 brings many new features and enhancements such as: Authentication and Authorization via MS Active Directory, transaction capabilities via the config screen UI, InfluxDB for analytics data storage and many more.  For a full list of new capabilities go to:  https://github.com/FRINXio/FRINX-machine/releases   To try out the latest version of FRINX Machine visit:  https://demo.frinx.io/

Milestone in Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

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FRINX has been working with Telefonica and its vendors to deploy a standardized SDN interface for its 30.000 microwave links in production. Because of its unique expertise in SDN technologies and carrier grade solutions, FRINX was able to support Telefonica and its vendors to implement this use case. https://www.telefonica.de/news/press-releases-telefonica-germany/2021/12/milestone-in-software-defined-networking-sdn-o2-telefonica-uses-new-standardized-sdn-interface-for-30000-microwave-links.html

FRINX is recognized as an Intel Network Builders Winner's Circle Gold member

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We are happy to be recognized as an Intel Network Builders Winner's Circle Gold member. Working together with Intel's test labs and deploying FRINX solutions on Intel's latest processor architectures allows us to reliably meet and exceed our customer's automation needs. Working together with Intel allows us to test and deploy our solution on the latest server processor architectures and to leverage Intel's Smart Edge Open toolkit.   #Intel #FRINX #SmartEdgeOpen #OpenConfig #network #automation

FRINX Machine 1.7 update

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We have just shipped a new release of FRINX Machine (FM 1.7). In the following series of videos, you can learn about new features and techniques that will help you to automate your network at scale. FRINX Machine 1.7 update - part 1 A closer look at the new features of FRINX Machine 1.7. This video provides an overview of the new device inventory and blueprint functions. We also demonstrate how to add a device to the inventory via the GraphQL API. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n0SBR2UI0eg&list=PLQ2GwwrvIDrE90Ywa_A5SdQ2t4XRUF8w7&index=1 FRINX Machine 1.7 update - part 2 A closer look at the new features of FRINX Machine 1.7. This video provides an overview of the updated API documentation including OpenAPI docs for our UniConfig controller and the GraphQL playground for the FRINX Machine device inventory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uameM-GqttI&list=PLQ2GwwrvIDrE90Ywa_A5SdQ2t4XRUF8w7&index=2 FRINX Machine 1.7 update - part 3 A closer look at the new features of FRIN

TIP Open Automation Solutions Group webinar

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Check out the most recent TIP Open Automation Solutions Group webinar recording where FRINX presented scalable network automation. Hear about what real world use cases are being solved in the OAS group ( https://telecominfraproject.com/open-automation/ ) and learn about which solutions FRINX is working on in the webinar recording. https://vimeo.com/578211927#t=35m33s