Tecore to Unveil 4G LTE Evolved Packet Core at Mobile World Congress

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, February 10, 2009

All-IP iCore Network Platform Seamlessly Incorporates MME and SAE Gateway

Visit Tecore at Mobile World Congress, Stand 8C78, February 16-19

Columbia, Md. – Tecore Networks, a global supplier of multi-technology 2G, 3G and 4G mobile network infrastructure, today introduced iCore® LTE, the next generation of its all-IP core network platform including support for 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) through simultaneous operation of an Evolved Packet Core (EPC) as well as 2G and 3G functions. With the foundational architecture of iCore already in alignment with key LTE principles, the transition to 4G will require the addition of new network elements as software plug-ins, allowing operators to evolve their 2G or 3G networks without forklift upgrades.

LTE offers a substantially enhanced user experience – including data rates in the hundreds of megabits – through an architecture that enables unprecedented network and spectrum efficiency. Tecore’s LTE solution will build upon key features of the iCore platform already in deployments globally, including:

• All-IP communication and signaling including an IMS core
• Concurrent support for voice and data services for GSM, CDMA and SIP technology families, from common object code
• Complete core network (MSC/VLR, HLR/HSS, AuC/AC, SMSC/MMSC, Prepaid IN, UMSC, SGSN/GGSN) delivered on a single blade
• Peer-to-peer IP switching, enabling tandem-free operations for signaling as well as transcoding-free operation for VoIP or RTP
• Carrier-grade Linux operating system, deployable on a range of hardware platforms including compact-PCI, microTCA and ATCA.