Tekelec has unveiled the TekMedia Short Message Service (SMS) Solution that enables operators to deliver advanced messaging capabilities without costly network overhaul. The TekMedia SMS Solution provides a secure, modular architecture that supports the evolution of SMS beyond simple text messaging to include mobile-to-application, application-to-mobile and application-to-application services such as tele voting and telemetry. The Tekelec solution also will support future multimedia instant messaging (MM-IM) applications using session initiation protocol (SIP) in Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) architectures, such as mobile IM services that link text with voice, video and pictures. The short message service centres (SMSCs) currently deployed by many operators are designed to handle the relatively predictable traffic of simple text messaging but are not optimized to support the large spikes in signaling traffic created by SMS applications such as tele-voting. The TekMedia SMS Solution can replace or ‘cap and grow’ SMSCs, allowing operators to increase capacity and capabilities incrementally or to create a completely new SMS solution.

The TekMedia SMS Solution is part of Tekelec's 'IMS-Ready' portfolio for next-generation networks and applications. The solution is in trials with several operators and will be available commercially in third quarter 2006.
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