Gigabit service delivery spurs Mississippi communities to vie for
technology investment for new community and business opportunities
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2014--
ADTRAN®,
Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation networking
solutions, today announced as part of its Enabling Communities,
Connecting Lives program, that C Spire is leveraging ADTRAN’s
broadband platform to transform the communities it supports into hubs
for investment and economic growth. C Spire Fiber to the Home is
bringing ultra-fast Gigabit broadband that is 100 times faster than
traditional broadband services to thousands of homes, businesses and
schools across the Mississippi portion of its service area. ADTRAN’s
Gigabit broadband architecture is enabling C Spire to provide their
subscribers with a faster, richer and more vibrant broadband experience
that will change the way they connect, work and play with communities
and businesses around the world.
A key component of C Spire’s service roll out is a proactive community
engagement plan. C Spire believes the tangible, community-wide benefits
of Gigabit service delivery could enhance the quality-of-life of its
residents and establish a new economic future for Mississippi. To ensure
the community understands these benefits – including robust digital
learning for schools, more efficient delivery of municipal services and
entrepreneurial high-tech investment and jobs – C Spire encouraged
communities to “Get Fiber First” with a competition to determine initial
service roll out. Local communities embraced the challenge with
creative, aggressive campaigns and nine partner communities were
selected last November.
With ambitious plans to grow the number of cities, towns and
neighborhoods serviced by C Spire Fiber to the Home, the company
knew it needed a solution that would allow them to quickly ramp the
initial service and easily scale to meet expected demand. ADTRAN’s
Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband portfolio is a purpose-built Gigabit
architecture that delivers the ultra-flexible, high-capacity, deep-fiber
solutions that C Spire required for this high-profile project. With
ADTRAN’s Advanced Services Architecture to build upon, C Spire is able
to deliver a mix of residential, enterprise and mobile backhaul services
over a common, next-generation network with advanced service management
and forward-looking network automation capabilities.
“Our new C Spire Fiber to the Home service has really captured
the imagination of residents, businesses and government officials alike.
We are only scratching the surface of what is possible with Gigabit
service delivery and believe there are limitless opportunities available
to our communities with this type of next-generation technology,” said
Suzy Hays, senior vice president of Consumer Markets for C Spire.
“ADTRAN provided the Gigabit broadband infrastructure we needed to
reinvent our network and helped us quickly go-to-market with the new
service. This is enabling us to provide the ground work for our
communities to build upon as they begin to transform into hubs of
technology investment and economic growth.”
“C Spire and the residents, community leaders and local businesses in
Mississippi have rallied together to create a vision for what fiber and
ultra high-speed Gigabit technology can do for a community. They’ve not
only created an unbelievable amount of enthusiasm, but have opened the
door to a new high-tech economic future for themselves,” said Mitch
Fleming, regional vice president, sales, ADTRAN Carrier Networks
Division. “ADTRAN knows that Gigabit service delivery provides a strong
foundation for helping service providers like C Spire evolve, change and
grow their networks so that they can better serve the needs of the
communities they operate within.”
ADTRAN’s Enabling
Communities, Connecting Lives program showcases how innovative
technologies are being used in cities, towns and communities across the
country to support economic growth, urban redevelopment, educational and
municipal service support, and innovative residential service delivery.
These communities are using ADTRAN’s world-class broadband, Wi-Fi and
Cloud service offerings to re-invigorate downtown business and
residential districts, connect classrooms with other learning centers
around the world, and help attract new companies seeking to relocate out
of crowded urban centers.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
About C Spire
C Spire is a diversified telecommunications and technology services
company that provides world-class, customer-inspired wireless
communications, 1 Gigabit consumer Internet access as well as a full
suite of dedicated Internet, wireless, data and cloud services for
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 at www.facebook.com/cspire
or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/cspire.
Source: ADTRAN, Inc.
Connect2 Communications for ADTRAN
Ashley Baster, 919-435-9112
ashley@connect2comm.com
or
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Spire
Dave Miller, 601-974-7725
Sr Media Relations Manager
Cell:
769-798-7725
dnmiller@cspire.com