Optimus extends Tekelec contract

Portuguese cellco Optimus selected performance management company Tekelec to monitor its converged next generation network, according to TeleGeography CommsUpdate.

Optimus will use Tekelec's performance management service to gain visibility into its network services and subscriber usage as it converges its mobile and fixed assets into a single platform.

The cellco is migrating to Tekelec’s next generation, Linux-based performance management platform to increase storage and processing capacity to handle the dramatic increase in subscriber usage data. The agreement builds on Tekelec’s history of monitoring Optimus’s signaling system 7 (SS7) networks for more than five years.