Tekelec Wins LTE Deal

MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- Tekelec (NASDAQ: TKLC) has been selected by MetroPCS Communications Inc., the nation's leading provider of unlimited, flat-rate, no signed contract wireless communications service, to provide SIGTRAN, SIP and Diameter session management as well as Number Portability and Performance Management solutions. The suite of solutions, including Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router (DSR), will be deployed to support the company's 4G LTE roll out, the nation's first commercial 4G LTE network.

Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router (DSR) creates a Diameter signaling core that relieves LTE and IMS endpoints of routing, traffic management and load balancing tasks and provides a single interconnect point to other networks. The resulting architecture enables IP networks to grow incrementally and systematically to support increasing service and traffic demands. Tekelec holds hundreds of U.S. and foreign patents and patent applications in signaling and signaling control plane technologies, including 10 related to Diameter control plane session management and routing.

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