Taqua (News - Alert) a supplier of mobile and fixed core networking IP convergence systems and applications has established a new headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany to cater to Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

This step will help the company expand into the region and also serve its operators as they deliver next-generation mobile voice and messaging services. Most of these services rely on Wi-Fi networks and this initiative by the company is expected to assist in the 2G/3G to 4G/LTE (News - Alert) inter-networking upgrades.

Taqua ensures a rich and seamless fixed and mobile user experience when users transition legacy networks to LTE and IMS architectures. Wireline, cable and wireless carriers leverage Taqua’s mobile convergence core, switching, IP peering and enhanced applications to deliver IP-based solutions to subscribers across all broadband networks

Matthias Leisurs has been appointed as vice president of sales for EMEA. Well experienced in the telecom field, he has served in various senior management positions in sales and marketing at Hewlett-Packard (News - Alert), Vodafone-Arcor, Inet and Tekelec (now Oracle).

The new Taqua EMEA operations center will support sales of the company’s core network solutions for mobile operators. The technology solutions delivered by Taqua will utilize existing service providers’ infrastructure.

Officials explained that Taqua’s solutions are deployed widely by carriers in North America and the same solutions will be able to serve the needs of operators in the EMEA region. Taqua’s virtual mobile core solutions will enable operators to upgrade and launch advanced services to cater to the needs of customers in the EMEA region.

Recently, Sprint (News - Alert) selected Taqua’s virtual mobile core solution to enhance subscriber voice and messaging services by leveraging the Wi-Fi network.

Sprint is already utilizing Taqua’s virtual mobile core’s small cell solution as part of its femtocore. It has now implemented Taqua’s VoWiFi solution to enable a transparent user communications experience over the Wi-Fi network. In both cases, voice and messaging communications are handled by the Taqua virtual mobile core via session internet protocol (SIP) across the broadband network from either the subscriber’s femtocell or now Wi-Fi access.