Barcelona, 16th February 2009 - Aepona, the leading supplier of telecom service layer products and solutions to Telcos globally, today launched its Family Bundle Solution, an application suite that strengthens communications and relationships within a family, or any other small group. The Aepona Family Bundle brings together a collection of independent services and capabilities from 3rd party application developers, as well as services developed by Aepona, and is built upon the company’s award-winning Universal Service Platform.

The Aepona Family Bundle includes family-oriented features such as convenient group communications (e.g. click to call, conferencing and group messaging), location-based features (e.g. child tracking and geo-fencing with voice or messaging –based alerts), and safety/security features such as home surveillance with integrated alerts, weather alerts based on the location of family members, and so on.

The Family Bundle is an example of how discrete, best-of-breed applications from different partners can be “mashed up” with telecoms capabilities such as voice/conferencing, messaging and location to deliver a compelling end-user service. Integration of the partner applications with the telecoms network is made easy by the use of Telecom Web Services APIs, allowing the application developer to focus its resources on the creation of the service itself. From the Telecoms Operators’ perspective, they can add value to existing “over-the-top” services by allowing them to be enriched with their core capabilities, and bringing them together into an integrated, differentiated service offering.

In creating the Aepona Family Bundle, Aepona worked with partners such as UbiEst, an Italian provider of location-based services, which provided its UbiSafe application for family tracking and geofencing. Working with Aepona’s Universal Service Platform, Ubiest was able to easily add features such as voice alerts triggered by a family member crossing a geo-fence boundary, instant family conference calls, hunt groups, and network-derived location to cater for situations where GPS-based location is not available or suitable.

Aepona will be demonstrating its Family Bundle solution, in conjunction with its application developer partners, at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb 16-19 – Hall 2, Stand 2F08.