Why Affinegy
Your gear. Their gear. Wired. Wireless. In home. Everywhere else. One converged Digital Lifestyle Network.
Affinegy is the only available home networking software platform that was designed to exploit the converged Digital Lifestyle. This enables a major leap forward in delivering the “it just works” experience to Digital Lifestyle consumers. Like the ability to seamlessly connect, secure and manage both new and existing gear. Without worrying about the technical details. And to keep things simple as their network and usage behaviors evolve over time.
Our technology differentiation also allows us to deliver the value of “it just works” Digital Lifestyle Networking to a much broader set of customers and partners. Not just to service providers and networking gear manufacturers. But to any client solution on the network. Hardware or software. In home and everywhere else. Think printers. Smartphones. Set-top boxes. Digital cameras. Making it all work together. See the table below and learn the reasons why Affinegy technology is the emerging gold standard for supporting and monetizing the converged Digital Lifestyle:
| Affinegy Approach | Competitive Approach | Implication to Customers, Partners and Consumers |
|---|---|---|
| Thin client | Fat client | Affinegy’s solution is fast to download and install, and enables the consumer Digital Lifestyle in the most intuitive, resource-efficient manner |
| Native interfacing | Layering with redundant applications | Affinegy is the only solution that smartly discovers and uses what is already in the consumer’s environment for networking |
| Expert and fault-tolerant wireless network systems | Standard guided troubleshooting; wires required | Affinegy’s inherent system intelligence dramatically reduces consumer involvement in problem resolution |
| Peer-to-peer intelligence | Single system intelligence | Affinegy enables management of entire network from any connected client |
| SAAS Web portal for visibility and management | Enterprise, licensed customer care server | Affinegy delivers a rapidly scalable managed home network platform that leverages market-wide learnings and trends that speed deployment of new capabilities |