At CTIA (News - Alert), Tekelec introduced a new M2M service enablement solution for mobile service providers. It combines multiple network functions, thereby giving service providers new abilities to scale deployments, prioritize and manage devices and applications and analyze service performance. ??

Susie Kim Riley (News - Alert), chief marketing officer, said: "The M2M market is entering a new phase of rapid growth in broadband services as wireless sensors and chips become embedded in millions of machines that we use every day, whether it's our electricity meters, our cars, or our home appliances. Tekelec's (News - Alert) intelligent service enablement solution recognizes the distinct challenges and opportunities for service providers to manage billions of machines, introduce innovative service and pricing plans and differentiate their offerings by quality of service."??

The solution is said to be the first to integrate:?

• Policy management, to allow service providers to apply different qualities of service to different machines and implement flexible service plans based on transactions, connections, time of day, location, applications, or data usage.
• Tekelec's Diameter Signaling Router, to scale the M2M network's policy, charging, authentication and mobility management information and enable roaming and service portability.
• The Performance Intelligence Center, to analyze M2M services and network performance to identify trends, diagnose problems, ensure service level agreements and optimize device and service performance.
• Messaging services, to provide alerts and notifications based on real-time events and secure message storage and forwarding.
• The solution also enables operators to provide end-to-end services and profitably manage an M2M ecosystem with variable traffic volatility, transaction volumes, connection frequencies and quality of service requirements.?

In a large nutshell, this is a sophisticated subscriber and device data management system to provision and manage profile, location, and usage information for millions of devices in real time. This system also ensures device security, identity and address management, and has open application interfaces to enable Web services.