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helping you succeed with mobile Internet

User demand for mobile Internet is booming. That increases bandwidth consumption, drives up costs and pressures margins. Customers tell us that mobile data traffic is growing 30% to 50% a year. We want to help you succeed as you prepare 3G and 4G networks to deliver mobile Internet, video and commerce. OfferINg The UNIqUe NeW SMArTCOre gATeWAy In December, Tellabs closed our aquisition of WiChorus and its breakthrough mobile packet core gateway. The WiChorus acquisition expands Tellabs Mobile Solutions beyond mobile backhaul into adjacent applications, so you can: n deliver rich, differentiated user experiences on the mobile Internet n launch new applications to generate revenue n monetize over-the-top content n simplify networks to achieve significant savings. The WiChorus gateway is the only currently available packet core platform thats purpose-built for 4G, LTE and WiMAX, with support for 3G. It includes a full range of mobile IP products, ranging from low entry price to highly scalable, for applications including GGSN, LTE and WiMAX. MONeTIze The TOP 400 MObILe INTerNeT APPLICATIONS The WiChorus gateway: n offers 8 times more throughput, 4 times more simultaneous Internet connections and active users, compared with competitive platforms n uniquely combines world-class application analytics with a mobile core gateway for improved traffic engineering and network optimization n enables service providers to analyze and monetize more than 400 of the top mobile Internet applications n makes mobile networks content-aware and context-aware, with personalized application-awareness n outperforms other platforms in delivering mobile Internet capacity with superior deep-packet inspection (DPI) capability n delivers new and differentiated applications, such as Internet offload and distributed LTE gateway, to improve the user experience, increase core network efficiency up to 70% and reduce capital expenses up to 50%. fOCUSed ON MObILITy This issue of Inspire focuses on mobile networks and the mobile Internet. In our cover story, see how Netcom is transforming its network to become a 4G leader, using Tellabs Mobile Solutions (pages 6-8). Also in this issue, our chief technology officer Vikram Saksena shares his insights on the future of mobility (pages 13-14). We add to Vikrams vision the viewpoints of leading industry analysts (pages 10 and 15). hOPe TO See yOU AT MWC ANd CTIA WIreLeSS Well share more about Tellabs mobile vision, ideas and expanded solutions at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, booth # 2A47, on Feb. 15-18. And at the CTIA Wireless 2010 show in Las Vegas on March 23-25. I hope to see you there!

The WIChorus gaTeWay Is The oNly CurreNTly avaIlable paCkeT Core plaTforM ThaTs purposebuIlT for 4g, lTe aNd WiMax, WITh supporT for 3g.
robert W. pullen Tellabs Ceo and president

Robert W. Pullen CeO ANd PreSIdeNT

2 Tellabs inspire 1 st QUARtER 2010