Acterna, Formerly TTC and WWG, Joins the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2000 Acterna's Centralized Test System Integrates with the Cisco ONS ONS Office for National Statistics (UK) ONS One Night Stand ONS Onslaught (Unreal Tournament 2004) ONS Oncology Nursing Society ONS Object Naming Service ONS Offshore Northern Seas 15454 to Streamline Optical Network Circuit Testing Acterna, the new company formed by the May 23, 2000, merger of TTC TTC Trying To Conceive TTC Toronto Transit Commission TTC Trans Texas Corridor TTC Toutes Taxes Comprises (French) TTC Trident Technical College (North Charleston, SC) TTC Temporary Traffic Control and Wavetek Wandel Goltermann (WWG WWG World Wide Group (WWDB) WWG Windward Group WWG Weapons Working Group WWG Warranty Working Group WWG Weather Wing ), announced today that it has joined the Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program as an Operational Support System/Business Support System (OSS/BSS) and Broadband Access See broadband and wireless broadband. member focusing on service fulfillment and service assurance for CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier) An organization offering local telephone service that is not one of the traditional telephone companies. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowed competition to the incumbent telcos (ILECs), enabling new companies (CLECs) , ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) A traditional local telephone company such as one of the Regional Bell companies (RBOCs). Contrast with CLEC. See ELEC and TELRIC. and IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. customers. Through its membership in the Cisco New World Ecosystem, Acterna brings an integrated test and monitoring system that combines the power of the Cisco ONS 15454 optical transport platform with Acterna's NetAnalyst Test OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. and its CENTEST family of remote test systems. This solution will enable Acterna and Cisco customers to monitor and test voice, video, and data services carried over optical networks based on the ONS 15454. "Interfacing Acterna's centralized test systems with the Cisco ONS 15454 provides our customers with a seamless solution for optical network circuit testing, a key portion of provisioning and maintenance processes that ensures network reliability," said Jim Shea, Acterna's vice president of marketing, Systems and Software Group. "Cisco is a leader in optical transport products, and Acterna is excited to be joining forces with them to create complete testing solutions for our customers." "The Cisco New World Ecosystem Partner Program delivers the power of choice to service providers with end-to-end solutions including our members' best-of-breed technologies," said Steve Hoch, director, Service Provider Marketing at Cisco. "Customers who deploy solutions provided by Cisco New World Ecosystem partners such as Acterna benefit from industry-leading technologies and innovative, integrated products, accelerating their time to market with New World services." NetAnalyst and the CENTEST family of remote test systems are part of Acterna's Service Optimization Framework (SOF SOF abbr. sound on film ) that enables automated service fulfillment and service assurance for telecommunications service providers globally. Acterna's SOF addresses the operational support needs of multi-service networks enabled by evolutionary network technologies. Capabilities afforded by Acterna's solution include integrated test and monitoring; quality of service (QoS) and service level agreement (SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. ) management, capacity management, alarm management, and service activation. Each OSS provides open, standard CORBA-based interfaces to external order management, order entry, trouble-ticketing systems and inventory databases. Delivering Integrated End-to-End Solutions through Strategic Business Partnerships The Cisco New World Ecosystem is a community of technology and deployment companies enabling service providers to seize revenue and service opportunities created by the transition from circuit to packet networks. With the ecosystem model Ecosystem models, or ecological models, are mathematical representations of ecosystems. Typically they simplify complex foodwebs down to their major components or trophic levels, and quantify these as either numbers of organisms, biomass or the inventory/concentration of , service providers gain efficiency, innovation, and flexibility along with the power to choose from best-of-breed products and services based on open industry standards. Key categories of member focus include OSS/BSS, voice applications and packet telephony Synonymous with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), in which a digital voice stream is broken up into small chunks (packets) and transmitted over a packet-switched network. See IP telephony and packet switching. , broadband access and solution integration/deployment. About Acterna Acterna, offering a wide range of solutions that optimize communications systems and networks, was formed by the May 23, 2000, merger of Wavetek Wandel Goltermann and TTC, the communications test industry's second and third largest companies. Acterna is a subsidiary of Acterna Corporation (OTC-BB:ACTR ACTR American Council of Teachers of Russian ACTR Actuator ACTR Association for Canadian Theatre Research ACTR A Christmas To Remember ACTR Assistant Contract Technical Representative (NMCI liaison) ), formerly Dynatech. Acterna enables its customers to strengthen profitability by improving service to their customers through the widest range of network analyzers, systems, software, strategic services and technical training available in the industry. Customers include service providers, enterprises and equipment manufacturers. They use the company's products to develop, install and maintain their data, voice, wireless, optical, cable, access and Internet protocol-based networks. Acterna, headquartered in Germantown, Maryland, USA, is present in more than 80 countries and employs 4,500 people worldwide. For more information, please visit Acterna's merger Web site at www.power2lead.com. Note to editors: All company or product names mentioned in this press release may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. TTC is a registered trademark of Acterna, formerly TTC, a division of Acterna Corp., formerly Dynatech Corp. Customer and product-related inquiries should be directed to 800/638-2049. Glossary: BSS--business support system; CLEC--competitive local exchange carrier, ILEC--incumbent local exchange carrier; IXC--interexchange carrier ; OSS--operational support system |
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