Archive for February, 2009
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NuVox Uses Empirix OSS
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
SAN JOSE, Calif. — From the Spring VON 2006 conference, Empirix® Inc., which helps organizations adopt complex communications solutions with confidence, announced that NuVox Communications, a leading provider of voice, data and security services to business customers across the Southeast and Midwest, has begun monitoring its carrier VoIP network with Hammer XMS.
Empirix Hammer XMS is a carrier-class monitoring and analysis solution that VoIP service providers use to ensure service quality meets the high standards their customers demand.
According to Keith Coker, Chief Technology Officer at NuVox, the company selected Empirix based on its long track record of helping service providers ensure high Quality of Service for VoIP services.
“NuVox had two main criteria in mind as we evaluated monitoring solutions,” said Coker. “First, we were looking for a more
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Anritsu Intros Jitter Test
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
CHICAGO — Anritsu Company (booth #68036) introduces at Supercomm today the industry’s first single-instrument solution for differential electrical jitter testing of 10G XFP modules, as well as the electrical interfaces connecting host cards to the modules. Enhanced with a unique 10 Gb differential input/output (I/O) feature, the MP1590B network performance tester is a superior testing alternative for design engineers responsible for the verification of XFP modules, as well as carriers who must ensure the performance of their networks.
With the differential I/O feature, the MP1590B provides more accurate results than existing solutions that perform single-ended electrical analysis or that verify optical performance. Such non-differential jitter tests yield very different and inappropriate results. The MP1590B provides highly accurate electrical measurement of all more
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BellSouth Taps Netopia
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
EMERYVILLE, Calif. — Netopia, Inc. (Pink Sheets:NTPA – News), a market leader in broadband gateways and service delivery software, announced today that BellSouth (NYSE:BLS – News) has licensed Netopia’s NBBS server software platform to manage and support Broadband customer premises equipment (CPE) deployed on BellSouth’s network and to streamline the deployment of value-added broadband services.
BellSouth selected the Netopia NBBS platform to meet its needs for CPE management compliant with the DSL Forum’s TR-069 specifications for centralized remote management. Netopia’s NBBS software supports the TR-069 specification for interoperability with CPE manufactured by multiple vendors. Netopia’s standards-based solution and ability to tightly integrate with BellSouth’s existing infrastructure makes Netopia’s NBBS platform more
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Brix Raises More Cash
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
CHELMSFORD, Mass. — Brix Networks (www.brixnet.com), the trusted provider of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) performance management and service assurance solutions, today announced it has obtained $1.5 million in venture capital funding from a new investor, TELUS Ventures.
TELUS Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of TELUS Corporation, a long time Brix customer and one the leading telecommunications companies in Canada.
With this investment, TELUS Ventures joins Castile Ventures, Charles River Ventures, ComVentures, Fidelity Ventures, Partech International, and STAR Ventures as one of the backers of the growing VoIP management company.
“We are impressed by Brix Networks’ market leadership, range of solutions, customer list, and the strength of its management team,” said Mathew George, vice president, portfolio management, more
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Acterna Tests IPTV
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
GERMANTOWN, Md. — Acterna today announced its NetComplete™ Service Assurance solution for IPTV that enables communications service providers to meet and exceed their customers’ expectations of receiving high-quality and reliable IPTV services, improving network efficiency and reducing customer churn. Deploying IPTV, which must meet the high quality expectations consumers have for video services, requires sophisticated service assurance tools and procedures, such as those found in NetComplete, to quickly identify and prevent sources of degradation.
Acterna, the leader in test and management solutions for consumer and business broadband communications, is introducing its NetComplete IPTV Service Assurance solution, as well as solutions for VoIP and Metro Ethernet, at SuperComm 2005, booth #43021, June 7-9.
“This is a revolutionary time for providers racing to more
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Shenick Launches IPTV Tester
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
CHICAGO and DUBLIN — “You can think of us as 10,000 TV viewers crammed into a little black box,” says Shenick Network Systems’
co-founder Robert Winters. “Those 10,000 viewers have always been there, and we’ve now enhanced diversifEye so that it can also function as a single viewer’s pair of eyes.”
Shenick’s diversifEye is a testing tool that ensures that the many systems that drive the Internet do what they’re supposed to do. Constant quality testing of this infrastructure has always been important, and it is even more crucial now, with the emergence of so-called triple play services, the increasing convergence of voice, video and high-speed Internet — and the growing risk of security attacks, which comes with it.
Essentially, diversifEye emulates regular Internet user and Internet more
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ETSI Touts Testing Language
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France — The annual International TTCN-3 User Conference for test experts using the ETSI scripting language TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation) was recently held at ETSI. The theme this year was to show the continued uptake and use of TTCN-3 in diverse fields of application. The conference demonstrated that TTCN-3 is used in both small and large development projects and is seen by many as a key component to efficient and cost effective validation and testing.
Detailed presentations showed the increased use of the language outside of the classical telecoms domain. This includes new Internet-related protocols such as IPv6 and RIPng, Intelligent Transport Systems (automotive and railway), financial sector applications and even web content. This wide range shows the potential of TTCN-3 to become a leader in its field. Indeed, TTCN-3 is being seen by more
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Ixia Ships 100GE Tester
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
CALABASAS, Calif. — Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA – News), a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, today announced that it has delivered its first 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) Development Accelerator System (DAS). Ixia is developing 40 and 100 GE test systems as pre-standard tools to provide network equipment and communications chip manufacturers the capabilities that they urgently need for layer-2/3 traffic generation and analysis. Ixia will demonstrate the 100 GE DAS in booth #736 at DesignCon 2009 being held in Santa Clara, CA, February 3-4.
Ixia’s DAS is the world’s first-to-market 100 GE test system. Ixia’s 40 and 100 GE test systems include a unique implementation of the 100 GE physical coding sublayer (PCS) layer with the underlying multilane distribution (MLD) architecture which is compliant with the draft 1.1 standard published in December 2008 more
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BreakingPoint Claims 40G Breakthrough
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
AUSTIN, Texas — Today, BreakingPoint users realized a 2X boost in testing performance with a simple firmware upgrade, enabling them to now generate blended Layer 4-7 application traffic at up to 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps). BreakingPoint’s innovative network processor technology powers this unprecedented throughput while making the BreakingPoint Elite field-upgradeable and future-proof.
– BreakingPoint Elite packs an enormous punch in a 3-slot chassis with the testing industry’s highest 10 GigE port density, lowest cost per TCP session, lowest cost per Gigabit of blended Layer 4-7 traffic, and lowest power consumption.
– BreakingPoint Elite’s innovative architecture includes three distinct but integrated layers including a hardware layer featuring a blend of FPGAs, network processors and embedded processors. BreakingPoint’s more
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Spirent Unveils HyperMetrics
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — In response to our customers’ requirement to drive innovation, Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a global leader in performance analysis and service management, today introduced the HyperMetrics(TM) family of modules on the award winning Spirent TestCenter platform. HyperMetrics is the industry’s first solution with an innovative multi-core architecture that addresses port density as well as the critical aspect of realism required to ensure Quality of Experience (QoE) for new services helping to maximize return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership (TCO) throughout the test lifecycle.
“With the evolution to intelligent content aware networks, service providers and network equipment manufacturers need to furnish tools and functions to plan, measure, monitor, and assure evolving traffic patterns, new services, and more
