Acterna and Innovatia's LivingLAB Team to Promote Access Network Solutions.Business Editors GERMANTOWN, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2001 Acterna (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :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) ) today announced they are teaming up with Innovatia through Acterna's strategic alliance program to utilize Innovatia's LivingLAB(TM) approach to develop, test and demonstrate new Acterna technologies in a development environment and on live networks. Innovatia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aliant (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :AIT), is one of Canada's leading research and development companies for broadband Internet-protocol (IP) applications. Innovatia's LivingLAB is a collaborative multi-vendor innovations environment for product development. By providing access to the infrastructure, resources and the networks of Aliant Telecom, Aliant's telecommunications company See telecom company. serving Atlantic Canada, the LivingLAB is a unique approach to generating real market learning for products and services destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. for deployment in the emerging telecommunications, broadband and networked multimedia marketplaces. Emerging providers and operators are actively seeking portable test instruments for field technician use for circuit test as part of the network provisioning Network provisioning or Service mediation are terms referring to provisioning of the customer’s services to the network elements, mostly used in the telecommunication industry. and maintenance process. To more effectively address these market requirements in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Acterna and access network carriers can leverage Innovatia's LivingLAB to validate technology interoperability and to accelerate time to market for Acterna-based test solutions. "Through the combined resources of Acterna test and management products and Innovatia's technology network environment expertise, carriers will be able to reduce their number of dispatches, achieve improved cost efficiencies and enhance the accessibility and reliability of their services," said Tom Donovan, manager of Aliant Telecom's Development Labs. About Innovatia Headquartered in Atlantic Canada, Innovatia focuses on designing and commercializing Internet-based innovations. Through the LivingLAB(TM) and its base of highly skilled professionals, Innovatia accelerates the design, development and sale of applications to service providers worldwide. Using Internet-protocol (IP) technology, Innovatia provides a variety of advanced Internet- based open standard services for governments, enterprises and service providers, including interactive television, e-business solutions and Web-based knowledge services. For more information about Innovatia, please visit www.innovatia.net. Innovatia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aliant Inc. Aliant Inc. (TSE:AIT) is one of Canada's top high-tech companies, providing integrated communications and IT solutions through subsidiaries operating worldwide. By combining industry-leading expertise from across the group of companies, Aliant utilizes the Aliant Premium(TM) Model to deliver unique, end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. to customers. With 10,000 employees and a market capitalization Market Capitalization A measure of a public company's size. Market capitalization is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares. It's calculated by multiplying the number of shares times the current market price. This term is often referred to as market cap. of almost $5 billion, Aliant ranks in the top 100 publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. in the country. Please visit www.aliant.ca for more information about Aliant. About Acterna Acterna is the world's largest provider of test and management solutions for optical transport, access and cable networks and the second largest communications test company overall. Focused entirely on providing equipment, software, systems and services, Acterna helps customers develop, install, manufacture and maintain their optical transport, access, cable, data/IP, and wireless networks. The company produces annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenue of more than $1 billion and serves customers in more than 80 countries. Acterna is a subsidiary of Acterna Corporation (NASDAQ: ACTR). Information about Acterna can be found on the Web at www.acterna.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. Customer and product-related inquiries should be directed to 800/638-2049. |
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