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C Spire Selects Taqua's Virtual Mobile Core
[May 19, 2015]

C Spire Selects Taqua's Virtual Mobile Core


Taqua (News - Alert)®, LLC, a leading supplier of mobile and fixed communications solutions, announced today that C Spire has selected Taqua's Virtual Mobile Core (VMC) as its mobile VoIP core for the deployment of small cells.

Ridgeland, Mississippi-based C Spire is a diversified telecommunications and technology services company that operates the nation's largest privately held wireless communications unit, which provides mobile broadband services and premier mobile communications devices to consumers and businesses in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Florida.

Taqua's Virtual Mobile Core (VMC) is a converged 4G mobile core enabling rapid deployment of next-generation mobile voice and messaging services. The VMC is a carrier-grade software product that converges a number of 3GPP standard functions including a Telephony Application Server (TAS), IP Short Message Gateway (News - Alert) (IP-SM-GW), Service Consistency and Continuity Application Server (SCC-AS), and Media Resource Function (MRF). The VMC can be deployed in pre-IMS or IMS networks as well as being optionally deployed as a standard MSC (News - Alert)/VLR in existing mobile networks.

"We selected Taqua's Virtual Mobile Core for small cell deployments because of its scalability and versatility," said Eric Hollingsworth, senior vice president of Network Operations for C Spire. "Taqua's mobile core is used in a variety of ways by millions of subscribers for mobile VoIP services. This gives us the confidence that the Taqua VMC can support our small cell offering and provide the flexibility we require to ensre that C Spire continues to deliver high quality, state-of-the-art communication services to our subscribers."



About C Spire

C Spire is a diversified telecommunications and technology services company that provides world-class customer-inspired service and a superior comprehensive suite of wireless communications, high-speed Internet access and a range of other telecommunications products and services to consumers and businesses. This news release and other announcements are available at www.cspire.com/news. For more information about C Spire, visit www.cspire.com or follow us on Facebook (News - Alert) at www.facebook.com/cspire or Twitter at www.twitter.com/cspire.


About Taqua® LLC.

Taqua is enabling the transformation to software-based service provider networks capable of delivering next generation voice, video and messaging services including VoWiFi and VoLTE. Since 1998, Taqua's software-based networking solutions have been deployed by hundreds of wireline, cable and wireless carriers to enable new services, drive new revenues and lower overall costs. Taqua is headquartered in Dallas, TX, with research and development facilities in Boston, MA, Milpitas, CA (News - Alert), and Dallas, TX, and European sales offices in Germany and the U.K. More information on Taqua can be obtained by calling +1.972.692.1800 or by browsing the website at www.taqua.com.


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