Tekelec Announces TekCore IMS Core Platform; CSCF Capabilities Evolve EAGLE(R) 5 ISS for Delivery of IMS Services Today.MORRISVILLE, N.C. & CHICAGO -- Tekelec (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : TKLC), a leading developer of high-performance network applications for next-generation fixed, mobile and packet networks, today at GLOBALCOMM 2006 announced TekCore, the company's Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ) core signaling platform that enables operators to offer next-generation, multimedia services today without the overhead of deploying a full-scale IMS network. Built to 3GPP GPP Government Performance Project GPP General Purpose Processor GPP General Physical Preparedness GPP Gambian People's Party GPP Good Pharmacy Practice GPP Gross Primary Productivity GPP Green Procurement Program GPP Generic Packetized Protocol standards, TekCore provides call session control function (CSCF CSCF Call Session Control Function CSCF Canadian Ski Coaches Federation CSCF Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) CSCF Call State Control Function (3GPP) ) capabilities to Tekelec's market leading EAGLE 5 Integrated Signaling System (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ), enabling session initiation protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP)-based signaling and control of next-generation multimedia traffic. "The introduction of the TekCore CSCF represents an important milestone in Tekelec's IMS roadmap," said Ronald Gruia, program leader of Emerging Communications at Frost & Sullivan. "Given that the ATCA See AdvancedTCA. architecture will be backwards compatible with the flagship EAGLE 5 ISS product, carriers will be able to evolve to a next-gen infrastructure at their own pace. The migration to IMS will be gradual, and TekCore certainly epitomizes this smooth transition being sought by most operators." TekCore is purpose-built with a server-on-a-card architecture integrating a universal advanced telecom computing architecture (ATCA) shelf seamlessly with the existing EAGLE 5 ISS. The architecture allows Tekelec's extensive global installed base of 200 EAGLE customers to leverage existing equipment while deploying next-generation services and applications. "TekCore provides the foundation for multimedia networks and evolves the Tekelec EAGLE 5 ISS for next-generation signaling," said Ron De Lange, president and general manager of Tekelec's Network Signaling Group. "For both our global installed base of EAGLE customers as well as 'greenfield' deployments, our IMS core platform provides a cost-efficient, flexible path forward from today's networks to the IMS network model." A key component of Tekelec's portfolio of "IMS-Ready" products for next-generation networks, TekCore is in operator trials and will be available commercially in fourth quarter 2006. TekCore Delivers An Economical Path Forward to IMS As the core foundation for multimedia services, TekCore offers the following benefits to operators: --Seamless migration to IMS. Supports transition from today's to IMS networks without major network overhauls or interrupting revenue streams from existing services and applications. --Investment protection. Compatible with today's EAGLE 5 ISS systems, allowing operators to deploy next-generation services without requiring completely new hardware components. --Efficient IMS service delivery. Reduces latency times and SIP traffic in IP networks by using clustering technology to place the most common IMS functions in close proximity, including proxy CSCF (p-CSCF), serving CSCF (s-CSCF), interrogating CSCF (i-CSCF) and breakout gateway control function (BGCF BGCF Breakout Gateway Control Function BGCF Border Gateway Control Function ). --Reduced cost of new service delivery. Built on open SIP core elements, enabling operators to reuse common features across many applications and to spread implementation costs across multiple services. --Improved service coordination service coordination Case management, see there . Service broker functions based on real-time subscriber activities enable feature interaction across multiple services. --Unified accounting and billing. TekCore is payload agnostic, allowing operators to create billing records for any media type and to integrate billing and accounting to other non-messaging services. The EAGLE 5 ISS with TekCore can be deployed with other Tekelec "IMS-Ready" solutions to support operators' evolution to next-generation networks. About Tekelec 'IMS-Ready' Solutions Tekelec continues to expand its "IMS-Ready" portfolio of products and solutions for the graceful evolution to next-generation networks, which have been deployed widely by operators around the world. The portfolio includes the recently announced Tekelec 3300 Convergence Gateway, TekCore (CSCF), Tekelec 6000 VoIP Application Server, Tekelec 9000 Distributed Switching Solution, Tekelec 7000 Class 5 Packet Switch and Tekelec's comprehensive suite of Integrated Application Solutions (IAS See iPlanet Application Server. 1. (computer) IAS - The first modern computer. It had main registers, processing circuits, information paths within the central processing unit, and used Von Neumann's fetch-execute cycle. ). IAS provides real-time visibility of traffic traversing today's and IMS networks and enables carriers to measure, manage and monetize traffic and services. Tekelec "IMS-Ready" products can be combined to provide complete solutions for Fixed Mobile Convergence Seamless switching between cellular and local networks for mobile users. The goal is to have a handset that switches automatically from the cellular network to the local, wireless Wi-Fi network when entering a building in order to save cellphone minutes. , Enhanced VoIP Services, and Mobile and Local Hosted Services. Tekelec is demonstrating its "IMS-Ready" solutions at its GLOBALCOMM booth # 19031, McCormick Place, Chicago, Ill., June 4-8, 2006. About Tekelec Tekelec is a high-performance network applications company that is accelerating the transition to IP Multimedia Subsystem An integrated network for telecommunications carriers that uses the IP protocol as its foundation for packetized voice, video and data. Supporting voice over IP (VoIP) in all its flavors (SIP, H.323, MGCP, etc. (IMS) networks for service providers around the globe. With its experience at the intersection of network applications and session control, Tekelec creates highly efficient platforms for managing media and delivering network solutions. Corporate headquarters are located near Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. in Morrisville, N.C., with research and development facilities and sales offices throughout the world. 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