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Tekelec has announced that the company has joined the GSMA “Rich Communications Suite” or RCS initiative. With this, the company aims to contribute to the mission of transforming SMS into an interoperable, feature-rich application.

 

The GSMA’s (News - Alert) Rich Communication Suite offers a feature-rich portfolio of services that use the communities hidden in a user’s phone book. The service is developed by the collaborative efforts of leading telecommunication companies and offers features such as enhanced address book or rich messaging services.

 

For operators, this service will make mobile phones even more central to their private and business lives – sharing a special image with friends or sharing data with colleagues around the world.

 

Helping RCS to enhance quickly, Tekelec's (News - Alert) “Mobile Messaging Product Family” enables transparent message routing between different protocols and types of networks. Also, Tekelec's EAGLE XG signaling platform realizes rich communications by improving the user experience through blending new and existing messaging services.

 

“RCS will enable operators to launch new services, enrich subscribers' experiences and derive new revenues in saturated markets,” said Ron de Lange, executive vice president at Tekelec. “Tekelec's heritage of core networking expertise, combined with mobile messaging innovation and our roster of SIP pioneers, gives us a distinct advantage to help define the future of messaging.”

 

To lay the foundation for IP multimedia subsystem and long term evolution/system architecture evolution networks, this industry-first approach works with more than 80 operators and vendors. Driven by session initiation protocol for session signaling, these next-generation network frameworks support an increased amount of data leveraging IP-based services.

 

In February of this year, the company demonstrated a high level of communications between two different IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) networks across different continents at the IMS / Next Generation network Plugfest 6 recently held at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab in Durham. Tekelec used its flagship product, the Eagle XG Call Session Control Function, to showcase its effectiveness.