It will be interesting to see how far Affirmed engages with open source platforms and starts to contribute elements of its disruptive technology. Its vEPC is part of AT&T’s Domain 2.0 next generation platform, and that operator is increasingly pushing its definitions of the new network into open source initiatives. Another prominent innovator in virtualized mobile networks, Mavenir, is certainly going down the open route. It contributed a vEPC design to the CORD project and it is basing parts of its CloudRange offering on the management and orchestration (MANO) capabilities defined by the Open Networking Automation Protocol (ONAP) group – one of the open source efforts kicked off by AT&T. Mavenir is a member of ONAP and also of the…