Lead Story:

Local Number Portability hits its stride

Despite regional differences and hiccups, competition drives growth

By Sean Buckley

The rise of worldwide telecom competition has helped to open the worldwide floodgates to expand wireline and wireless number portability initiatives.
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Product Profile:

Tekelec helps service providers overcome IP peer pressure

TekPath Route Director bridges the TDM to VoIP worlds

By Sean Buckley

Leveraging the work it has done with SS7 Signaling Transfer Points (STP) for number portability, Tekelec has created the TekPath Route Director ENUM product to help service providers bridge the TDM to IP services divide.
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Standards Efforts:

MSF refines interoperability trials at GMI 2008

Set to push industry standards on IMS, SOA, session control and QoS

By Doug Allen

The MultiService Forum's (MSF) next big interoperability tests are coming up fast, with GMI (Global MSF Interoperability) 2008 set for a late October launch.
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Emerging Trends:

Cable tunes into ENUM

VoIP, multimedia services drive need

By Sean Buckley

Like many technology concepts to emerge in the late 1990s, Electronic Number Mapping (ENUM) went through the typical hype phase, and then outside of some pioneering smaller vendor efforts and carrier trials, pretty much went dark.
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Audiocast:

Tekelec sets a practical IMS migration

Enables service providers to hide complexity from the end user

In this interview, Telecommunications Editor in Chief Sean Buckley talks to Dan Bantukul, director of product management at Tekelec, about how it is easing the service provider path to IMS.

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Featured Research:

Operator Guidelines for Number Portability

Challenges and Solutions for ANSI- & ITU-based Networks

Many operators are replacing their legacy SCP-based number portability systems with integrated signaling/NP solutions. The integrated approach is more cost-effective, scalable, and compact, and supports superior throughput, higher transaction speeds, and a larger database size.

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