Tekelec (TKLC) News

MORRISVILLE, NC, Aug. 4, 2010 (Marketwire) --

MORRISVILLE, NC -- (Marketwire) -- 08/04/10 -- Tekelec, (NASDAQ: TKLC) the broadband data management company, has won its 100th number portability customer, building on its global market share leadership. With the selection by India's Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. (MTNL) last month, Tekelec has also won nine of the 11 Indian number portability bids it has entered.

The company's number portability footprint now spans 34 countries and includes Tier 1 service providers such as Verizon, T-Mobile Germany, Reliance Communications (RCOM), Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) and multiple Orange subsidiaries. According to the Number Portability Research Note published by research and consultancy firm Analysys Mason, Tekelec has the largest market share for real-time connection number portability solutions.

"Our global number portability success reflects our abilities to scale for the world's largest service providers and also cost-effectively solve number portability needs in smaller countries," said Wolrad Claudy, executive vice president of sales at Tekelec. "We provide the flexibility and reliability required for service providers to rapidly port numbers and give subscribers a seamless experience for all of their services."

Tekelec supports number portability over both signaling system 7 (SS7) and session initiation protocol (SIP). The solution handles voice, short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS) and pre-paid calls and is used in GSM, CDMA, VoIP, cable and fixed line networks. Number portability is part of Tekelec's comprehensive subscriber data management (SDM) suite, which includes a next-generation home location register (ngHLR), home subscriber server (HSS), and authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) Server. Tekelec's SDM solution consolidates and manages converged subscriber profiles across 2G, 3G and LTE domains to lower costs and speed delivery of new services.

For more information, Analysys Mason's Number Portability Research Note and Tekelec's Operator Guidelines for Number Portability whitepaper are available as free downloads.

About Tekelec
Tekelec (www.tekelec.com), the broadband data management company, enables billions of people and devices to surf, talk, and text. Our solutions allow service providers to give consumers a consistent and tailored broadband experience. We handle network complexity with a portfolio that manages and capitalizes on the exponential growth in data applications and traffic. Tekelec has more than 25 offices around the world serving customers in more than 100 countries.

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