Tekelec

Tekelec, Inc.
Company typePublic
Industrytelecommunication-equipment manufacturing
FoundedCalabasas, California (1971)
Defunct2013 
SuccessorOracle Corporation 
HeadquartersMorrisville, North Carolina
Key people
Philip Black, President and CEO
Michael Leigh, COO and Vice President Sales & Marketing
Joseph Noble, Vice President-Sales
Hubert de Pesquidoux, Chairman
Ronald J. de Lange, President and CEO
Gregory Rush, Senior Vice President, CFO
ProductsChameleon 32 Protocol Simulator/Analyzer, Session Management, Diameter Signaling Router, Policy Management, Subscriber Data Management, Performance Intelligence Center, Mobile Messaging
Number of employees
1140 (2012)
Websitetekelec.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-02-03)

Tekelec, Inc. was a Morrisville, North Carolina–based telecommunications company. It developed hardware and software for networks that are fixed, wireless, or packet-based. It provided IP services to help mobile carriers with network signaling, policy control, and subscriber data management.

The company, founded in Calabasas, California, in 1971, was acquired by Oracle in 2013, from Siris Capital Group.