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Affirmed Networks

Affirmed Networks is a mobile networking company founded in 2010 (Andover, Massachusetts) that pioneered fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile core software for service providers. Its portfolio spanned a Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC), the UnityCloud 5G Core, Private Network Service, Network Slicing, and service-automation/analytics tooling, deployed by 100+ mobile operators including AT&T, Orange, Vodafone, and Telus. The company was acquired by Microsoft in March 2020 and folded into the Azure for Operators initiative; the affirmednetworks.com site now operates as a Microsoft company marketing presence with no independent public developer portal or API. Surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Matrix Partners.

Affirmed Networks is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Infrastructure, Telecommunications, 5G, and Mobile Core.

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7.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
0 APIs
CompanyInfrastructureTelecommunications5GMobile CoreCloud-NativeNetwork Functions VirtualizationAcquired

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Telecommunications regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/affirmed: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Affirmed Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: affirmed
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
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name: Affirmed Networks
description: Affirmed Networks is a mobile networking company founded in 2010 (Andover, Massachusetts) that pioneered fully
  virtualized, cloud-native mobile core software for service providers. Its portfolio spanned a Virtualized Evolved Packet
  Core (vEPC), the UnityCloud 5G Core, Private Network Service, Network Slicing, and service-automation/analytics tooling,
  deployed by 100+ mobile operators including AT&T, Orange, Vodafone, and Telus. The company was acquired by Microsoft in
  March 2020 and folded into the Azure for Operators initiative; the affirmednetworks.com site now operates as a Microsoft
  company marketing presence with no independent public developer portal or API. Surfaced in the API Evangelist network as
  a portfolio company of Matrix Partners.
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- centerview-capital
- qualcomm-ventures
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x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: microsoft
x-acquired-date: 2020-03
x-successor-product: Azure for Operators
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created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Telecommunications
- 5G
- Mobile Core
- Cloud-Native
- Network Functions Virtualization
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Infrastructure
- Telecommunications
- 5G
- Mobile Core
- Cloud Native
- Network Functions Virtualization
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common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/affirmed-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.affirmednetworks.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/terms-of-use
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence