Acision
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Mobile communications |
| Predecessor | Aldiscon, CMG |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Fate | Acquired by Comverse, Inc. in 2015 (later became Xura, then Mavenir) |
| Headquarters | Reading, Berkshire, UK |
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| Revenue | US$0.5 billion |
Number of employees | 1,100 (2013) |
| Website | Acision |
Acision was a privately held British mobile communications network infrastructure company engaged in messaging and charging systems that enable popular services such as Short message service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), mobile internet browsing, mobile broadband, and voicemail. In particular, Acision specialised in providing IP messaging to over-the-top media services and other enterprises.[1]
Acision was founded in 2007 as a spin-off of the wireless networks business from LogicaCMG.[2] It existed as an independent, private company until it was purchased by Comverse, Inc. in 2015.[3]
Acision's roots lie in two companies:
- The Wireless Data Services (WDS) division of Anglo-Dutch consultancy and telecommunications company CMG, the first to develop a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) in 1992 which was first deployed in 1993. CMG WDS also developed UCP/EMI, a protocol primarily used to connect to short message service centres (SMSCs).
- The Irish mobile telecommunications pioneers Aldiscon, the first to commercially deploy an SMSC, Telepath, and its now standardized protocol SMPP in 1993.
Aldiscon's first deployment of its Telepath SMSC was with TeliaSonera in Sweden in 1993,[4] followed by Fleet Call (now Nextel)[citation needed] in the US, Telenor in Norway[citation needed] and BT Cellnet (now O2 UK)[citation needed] later in 1993. In 1997, Aldiscon was acquired by UK-based Logica, which merged with CMG in 2002 to form LogicaCMG. Both companies' wireless divisions merged into LogicaCMG Wireless Networks.