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Tekelec Switching Portfolio Powers
Frontier's
New One-Number Service, Frontier1
Morrisville, N.C. — — Tekelec (NASDAQ:
TKLC), a leading developer of
high-performance network applications
for next-generation fixed, mobile and
packet networks, today announced that
Frontier Communications, part of
Citizens Communications Company (NYSE:CZN),
has deployed multiple Tekelec
switching products to support the
launch of Frontier1. Frontier1 allows
access to multiple communication
devices using one phone number and one
voice mail account. Frontier selected
the Tekelec 9000 Distributed Switching
Solution (DSS), Tekelec 8000 Converged
Media Gateway (WMG), and Tekelec 6000
Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem
(IMS) Application Server to create a
distributed switching network with
enhanced applications that enable the
new service.
Frontier, one of the nation's leading
rural local exchange telephone
companies, delivers local,
long-distance, television and Internet
services in 23 states and serves more
than 2.1 million access lines and
approximately 390,000 high-speed
Internet subscribers. Frontier1, its
newest value-added product, links a
customer's cell phone and home phone
with one number and one voice mail
account. The customer can retain his
or her preferred wireless service
provider, eliminating the need to
change cell phone numbers, calling
plans, business cards and more.
Frontier is one of the first carriers
in the nation to provide seamless
switching between home and cell phones
using the Tekelec 6000 for Find-Me,
Simultaneous Ring, Call Jump, Voice
Mail and Web Portal services that link
subscribers' home, home office, cell
phone and Internet via one phone
number.
"Frontier1 delivers a next-generation
communications experience, allowing
customers to enjoy increased mobility
with the convenience of one phone
number and one voice mail account for
all devices, plus all the features
they need and want," said Pete Hayes,
executive vice president, Sales,
Marketing and Business Development for
Frontier. "We selected Tekelec based
on our strong prior business
relationship and the company's ability
to provide numerous functions in our
current network, to support our
long-term network evolution plan and
to interface with Frontier proprietary
technology ."
The Tekelec 6000 is a scalable,
standards-based solution that delivers
a variety of revenue-generating
integrated applications and works with
a wide range of network equipment and
protocols. With the Tekelec 6000,
Frontier can reliably support a near
unlimited number of residential,
business, and mobile customers with
its own secure configurations and
customized feature sets. The Tekelec
6000 suite of IMS-ready
voice/video/multimedia applications
and services delivers a rich set of
line-side and enhanced telephony
features for IP networks as part of
Tekelec's switching portfolio. Service
providers, wholesale providers and
system integrators can offer Hosted
PBX, IP Centrex and/or Business
Trunking services to business
customers and Broadband VoIP services
to residential customers in addition
to providing integrated mobile
services to all types of customers.
The Tekelec 9000 platform is an IMS-enabled
Media Gateway Control Function (MGCF)
and Media Gateway (MGW) for
connectivity to the public switched
telephone network (PSTN) as well as
native Class 4 and 5 services for
traditional switching applications.
The T9000 supports both time division
multiplexing (TDM) and IP
architectures as well as distributed
gateway functionality. Jay Whitehurst,
President and General Manager of the
Tekelec Switching Solutions Group,
said, "The Tekelec switching platform
delivers the flexibility and
scalability an ILEC like Frontier
needs in order to provide the advanced
features and services that are
critical to attract and retain
subscribers. Tekelec continues its
leadership and commitment in switching
by delivering a portfolio of
innovative solutions and quick
time-to-market features that enable
operators to evolve differentiated
services in a competitive
marketplace."
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