"Solving Network Integration Issues with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Mediation"

October 14, 9:30 - 10 a.m. in the "Argentina" room

Dan Bantukul, director of product marketing, will identify Tier 1 customer deployment scenarios and best practices to interoperate network elements from multiple vendors, as well as disparate wireless and wireline networks resulting from merger, acquisition and consolidation activity.

"Smartphone Quality of Service Assurance"

October 15, 9:30 - 10 a.m. in the "Argentina" room

Vince Lesch, vice president of product marketing, will present solutions for operators to better manage, monitor and troubleshoot smartphone usage. Lesch will show how networks and devices that are expanding to deliver any service, anywhere, at any time must be measured with key performance indicators to ensure high quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE).

Panel: "Value-Added Services: New Models of Application Development for Generating More Revenue"

October 16, 11:40 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. in the "Argentina" room

Paulo Souza, Tekelec's vice president of regional sales for Brazil, will show how operators can introduce targeted, revenue-generating mobile advertising in this value-added services panel. He will highlight opportunities through Tekelec's in-message advertising service -- including through innovative opportunities such as Twitter and other social networking short message service (SMS) updates.

For more information on Tekelec's solutions, the company has several free resources available:

-- SIP Signaling Router (SSR) multimedia tutorial addressing several next-generation networking challenges

-- "Customer Service Assurance" white paper, prepared with Stratecast analyst Karl Whitelock, containing five customer case studies

-- "Monitoring LTE [Long Term Evolution] Networks" white paper, which examines monitoring mobile broadband networks and services

-- "SMS Integration with Twitter and other Social Networks" white paper, highlighting the cost savings and new revenue opportunities presented by social network SMS updates

About Tekelec

Tekelec, a global leader in core multimedia session control, mobile messaging and network intelligence, ensures scalable, secure and highly available communications.