AePona in a Nutshell

 

History

1997: Aldiscon, an Ireland-based pioneer of text messaging and the first company to market with a commercial SMSC platform, was sold to Logica and Apion was founded, which thrived in the Mobile Internet / WAP Gateway market

1999: Apion was sold to Openwave.

2002: Aepona was founded to capitalize on the nascent market for Telecoms Value Added Services(VAS), launching the world’s first Application Gateway platform based on the emerging Parlay standards.

2007: Aepona acquired the Swedish Application Server vendor Appium, strengthening the company’s product portfolio and customer base.

2009: Aepona acquired Valista, a leading provider of Payments and Settlement solutions based in Ireland, bringing valuable revenue management and product merchandizing capabilities to the company.

2013: Aepona was acquired by Intel Corporation.

What does AePona do?

Aepona is an industry leader in API exposure and monetization platforms for service providers around the world.



Employees
As of 2013, 300+ based in Belfast, Dublin, Sri Lanka and the United States.

Aepona Sri Lanka
Aepona Sri Lanka Development Center is Java centric with significant expertise in Telco application development. It performs three key product engineering functions – R&D, Professional Services and Solutions Support.

Aepona and Intel
While globally recognised as a chip business, Intel also has a very large software business, which if it were a stand alone company would be one of the largest in the world.

AePona is now part of the Network Products and Service divisions within Intel, reporting into the Software & Services Group(SSG).