CTIA: Tekelec gets small for new telephony platform

NEW ORLEANS--Tekelec introduced a scaled down next generation telephony platform called GenuOne this week that nonetheless supports multiple applications and can scale from 100,000 to more than 9 million busy-hour call attempts.

GenuOne supports softswitch and Web-based applications, as well as traditional intelligent network solutions. It delivers call control, signaling, applications, media processing and operations management for TDM, ATM and IP-based networks. It also supports H.323 and SIP.

The platform allows carriers to add applications, such as BroadSoft’s IP Centrex, on a single blade. “The move to a blade-based architecture can help launch softswitch and gateway applications,” said Paul Miller, vice president for packet telephony at Tekelec.

The modular design of GenuOne -- which is made up of a signaling gateway, softswitch, media gateway, application server and element management system -- allows carriers to deploy it as a single element or in a distributed fashion.

The platform will be generally available in May and all Tekelec applications will be available on the platform at that time.

Tekelec also announced a sale to Roseville Telephone of its Eagle 5 signaling application system and integrated Sentinel business intelligence solution. The Eagle SAS is a multi-protocol signaling platform that hosts a number of applications including SS7 signal transfer, number portability, signaling gateway and data mining.

Roseville Telephone is a subsidiary of SureWest Communications. The first applications Roseville will deploy are SS7 routing and network monitoring.