C Spire Wireless, one of the top ten wireless service providers in US offering a suite of mobile broadband personalized services on its 3G and 4G LTE networks, selects Sandvine to provide its unified policy control platform. Sandvine, a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, has six of the top 12 wireless operators in U.S. as its customers. C Spire was one of the 11 new customers that Sandvine won during its second quarter of 2013.
Typical service plan development and implementation is structured in a rudimentary system where services are defined separately and then stitched together. Sandvine’s open and collaborative approach allows popular use cases like bill shock prevention to be defined and implemented in minutes. Integrating the PCRF and PCEF functions, Sandvine’s unified approach to network policy control extends the reach of service definition and implementation.
“Sandvine’s unified policy platform was an important factor in our selection process,” said Charles D. Watson II, Senior NOCC and Technical Infrastructure Manager for C Spire Wireless, a Ridgeland, Mississippi-based wireless communications and technology services company. “Having policy decision making distributed at multiple points of presence – an ability unique to Sandvine – gives us the flexibility and reliability to deploy a variety of over-the-top services our subscribers care about, including parental controls and video optimization.”
“Our network policy control platform has been deployed in over 250 service provider networks in 80 countries worldwide,” said Don Bowman, CTO, Sandvine. “We believe the ideal network policy control architecture stems from a unified platform that spans across the data plane and control plane bringing distributed intelligence so policy decisions are made faster, without having to wait for a query and response.”
