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Rising LTE deployments, the proliferation of smartphones and a boom...

Rising LTE deployments, the proliferation of smartphones and a boom in mobile app usage are converging to cause diameter network signaling traffic to swell through 2016, said Tekelec, a company that provides mobile broadband management solutions, including work with diameter.…

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diameter’s the protocol providers use to exchange information over LTE networks. The number of diameter messages per second (MPS) is predicted to increase to 47 million by 2016, up from 87,000 diameter MPS in 2011 -- a compound annual growth rate of 252 percent, Tekelec said Wednesday. The growth of diameter signaling traffic directly correlates with new LTE services and business models, including over-the-top app services like video and social networking, mobile cloud services and mobile payment services, the company said (http://xrl.us/bnpgua).