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Tekelec White Papers

Mobile Messaging
Performance Intelligence Center
Policy Management
Session Management
Subscriber Data Management

Mobile Messaging

Deliver advanced messaging and reduce message latency without over-engineering or rebuilding your SMS infrastructure with the Tekelec Mobile Messaging product family.

Capturing the Benefits of an SMS Network
The Frost & Sullivan business analysis shows that the SMS Network provides operators with lower costs, increased scalability and rapid service introduction.

Optimizing the SMS Network
This paper looks at how new, innovative SMS solutions can be used to optimize the current legacy SMSC network.

SMS Security
This paper examines how operators can leverage monitoring and advanced security techniques to protect their mobile subscribers, network and business.



Performance Intelligence Center

Convert network traffic data into useful business intelligence for troubleshooting, managing traffic, roamers and services with the Tekelec Performance Intelligence Center product family.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
This paper discusses how operators can use a central performance management system to develop signaling-based KPI metrics, which can be leveraged across various organizations to optimize the network and improve the overall business of the operator.

Monitoring 3G/UMTS Networks
This paper examines challenges and solutions associated with monitoring 3G/UMTS networks. As operators begin to deploy UMTS/3G networks, network-wide visibility is critical to ensuring a complete understanding of network performance, subscriber experience and service management.

Monitoring Hybrid Networks
This paper provides an overview of the challenges, requirements, benefits and potential solutions for monitoring today's and tomorrow's hybrid network.

Monitoring LTE Networks
This paper examines challenges and requirements for monitoring LTE networks.

Service Assurance for Next Generation Networks
This paper examines the monitoring and service assurance challenges that operators face as they transition to next-gen networks.



Policy Management

Control resource-intensive broadband services, deliver superior performance, increase revenues and economically scale your networks with Tekelec's Policy Management product family.

An Intelligent Approach to Monetizing Mobile Broadband
This paper highlights four use cases that illustrate how service providers can implement an intelligent approach to monetizing mobile broadband, including: personalized service tiers, simplified services for the multi-device customer, adding value to over-the-top applications, and casual usage and loyalty programs.

Delivering on the Mobile Broadband Promise
This paper prepared by Yankee Group outlines the benefits to Service Providers by implementing Network Intelligence to assist in accommodating unprecedented mobile data traffic and unpredictable usage.

Improving the Customer Experience with RAN-Aware Policy Management
Radio access network (RAN) technologies, delivery architectures and economics haven't kept pace with customers' increasing appetite for mobile broadband access. This paper focuses on the congestion impact on the RAN and how Tekelec's RAN-Aware policy management solution can enhance the customer experience.

Mobile Video Consumer Survey
This paper outlines new strategies for operators to balance revenues and costs associated with delivering mobile video services, based on a consumer survey conducted by industry analyst firm Strategy Analytics.

Policy Charging & Billing: What Tier 1 Operators Want
Heavy Reading research over the past 12 months has consistently shown that integration between policy management, charging & billing systems is both a vital medium-term requirement and a potential obstacle to more complex deployments of policy.

Policy Control and Mobile Video: Options for Managing Growth
This paper describes the use of policy control to manage the delivery of video over mobile networks and outlines the network technologies involved in deploying mobile video services.

Rethinking Mobile Data Rate Plans: What Consumers Think
This paper examines the advantages and limitations of current mobile data rate plans and discusses consumer thoughts and opinions.

Why Tekelec for Policy Management - Ease of Use
Most service providers are seeking an easy-to-use policy-creation environment. Tekelec's policy server addresses this requirement by offering a simple GUI, which service-provider personnel, including non-specialists, can use to build complex policy rules.

Why Tekelec for Policy Management - Interoperability
This paper discusses PCRF as a central coordinator of policy actions in the network, as well as one of the most critical components in any broadband optimization strategy.

Why Tekelec for Policy: Key Considerations in Selecting a Next-Generation Policy Server
As service providers expand policy's role to enable sophisticated monetization use cases, the policy server is becoming an essential strategic differentiator. This paper outlines key considerations when choosing a next-gen policy server.



Session Management

Bridge existing and next-generation applications and technologies like IMS and LTE to create an access-independent, converged network intelligence layer with the Tekelec Session Management product family.

All in the Family: The New Requirements of Shared Data Plans
Infonetics Research provides new findings on shared data plans driving mobile broadband device growth, and the network requirements to support these new plans.

Improving Performance of 3G, IMS, and LTE Networks with the Diameter Agent
This paper explores six use cases that demonstrate the applications and associated benefits of the Diameter agent in IMS and LTE networks.

Operator Guidelines for Number Portability
An overview of number portability, including design issues, cost recovery and solutions, for ANSI- and ITU-based fixed and mobile operators.

Service Orchestration and Mediation:
This paper examines how operators can use service orchestration and mediation to create a flexible service architecture for the delivery of rich, mixed services in pre-IMS, IMS and hybrid networks.

SS7 over IP
The focus of this paper is to explore the different SS7 over IP network architecture concepts and to define the optimal architecture for IP signalling networks, in view of what is currently implemented in traditional TDM environments.

The New Diameter Network
The surge in data-enabled devices and applications won’t translate into mobile data revenue growth unless service providers can create compelling personalized services and manage the rising data and signaling tide. This paper explores the New Diameter Network as the foundation for a successful mobile data business model.

The New Diameter Network: Over-the-Top Applications Clouds and Machines
Cloud, M2M and OTT providers are redefining the value creation model in the communications market. To stem that trend, CSPs have to transform their business models and networks to maintain a foothold in the mobile data ecosystem. The New Diameter Network is the foundation for a successful mobile data business. It provides the critical network elements – Diameter signaling infrastructure, policy server and UDR – operators need to manage and monetize the M2M, OTT and cloud application and service market.

The Path to LTE
This paper discusses how Service Providers can migrate their networks to all-IP LTE technology to help mitigate the effects of consumers’ never-ending appetite for bandwidth.

The Rise of Diameter Signaling
This paper focuses on the signaling role that Diameter is going to play in end-to-end IP networks like LTE. Diameter’s part in service-related functions such as charging is not addressed in detail. However, Tekelec expects common protocol functions such as routing, screening and Diameter-normalization to be implemented in common but centralized Diameter-specific network elements.

The Role of Diameter in All-IP Service-Oriented Networks
As operators migrate to all-IP networks, many of the functions performed by SS7 are being replaced by equivalent operations based on the Diameter protocol. This paper discusses the rise of Diameter and benefits of Diameter Protocol.

The Time For Diameter Is Now
This whitepaper details the efficiencies that Diameter brings in 3G as well as 4G, and explains why service providers should begin their Diameter implementations now rather than later.

The Value of Diameter Signaling In Security and Interworking Between 3G and LTE Networks
While many operators will deploy their own LTE network and manage their own interconnect agreements, there are many smaller operators who are looking to their Hub Providers for interconnectivity. This is especially true of those who currently use GRX for their data interconnections. This paper examines the benefits of interconnecting through a Diameter network, the issues they should be aware of, and the advantages that IPX can provide in terms of security and reduced administration.



Subscriber Data Management (SDM)

Put your principal asset – your subscribers – at the heart of your network by consolidating and managing your cross-domain subscriber data as a single logical profile with the Tekelec Subscriber Data Management (SDM) product family.

Convergence Starts with Your Subscribers
This paper discusses the growing and widespread concern for carriers of how they will manage subscribers and their identities moving forward into a multi-domain, multi-access, multi-device, and multi-dimensional world.

ENUM: Call Routing in an all IP World
This paper examines industry trends driving ENUM deployments, and how both traditional telco and cable operators can experience real benefits by implementing ENUM in their networks.

Machine-to-Machine Services
This paper examines how service providers can capitalize on the growing Machine-to-Machine (M2M) opportunity to create new revenue streams, expand the customer base and strengthen margins.

The Machine-to-Machine Opportunity for Mobile Service Providers: Popular Use Cases
This paper highlights four popular use cases that illustrate the new network and service requirements for M2M.