Why Tekelec for Policy
Tekelec was recently named the top policy management vendor by Infonetics Research’s annual global service provider survey for the third consecutive year. Tekelec leads the list of companies named as a top policy vendor with 50 percent more respondents than the second-place company.
As many operators already know, policy management is fast becoming mission critical as service providers try to cope with the broadband data boom. Most early policy deployments have focused on one or two use cases such congestion control or fair-use management, but that’s all about to change. As traffic levels swell and competition heats up, operators are looking at a broader and more complex set of use cases. Creating a more sophisticated policy environment means more triggers and more frequent policy adaptations. So, it’s not surprising that operators looking for easy-to-use policy creation environment that makes it as simple as possible to create and deploy policies themselves.
Tekelec’s policy server/PCRF is designed to help providers shape policies quickly to respond to changing network conditions and subscriber behavior. With the system’s simple GUI, service-provider personnel, even non-specialists, can intuitively build complex policy rules. The GUI is based on a “wizard” interface, which contains a large number of triggers, conditions and actions. Using interactive pull-down menus, users can populate the network with any number of “if/then” cases. If needed, rules can be modified later, according to variables defined by the service provider, without the user having to know a specific language syntax. And, because Tekelec’s policy management system has been successfully integrated with an extensive list of other policy enforcement endpoints, operators can easily integrate the PCRF with their existing policy and charging infrastructure.
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