Adtech Now Offers Core Network Monitoring and Analysis Solution.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2000 Booth No. 6261 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 As today's carrier networks grow larger and more complex, it is important that service providers maintain the guaranteed performance parameters of their networks. To effectively measure service levels and guarantee contracts made to customers, Adtech Inc., introduces its new SLAM(TM) (Service Level Agreement Monitor) system, a high-performance monitoring and analysis probe for carrier-class network management and service assurance. SLAM is an active monitoring system that places Adtech's AX/4000 Broadband Test System in the customer premise. The AX/4000 serves as a probe that injects traffic test cells into a network. When the test cells return to the sending probe, round trip delay and other 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. parameters are measured and logged to determine whether other not network traffic affected performance. SLAM monitors Layer 2 traffic sources such as ATM or Frame Relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. and Layer 3, IP traffic sources. "Service Providers have long been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. network performance measuring tools Because human senses - like vision, hearing, touch, heat/cold receptors are subjective - which means that they are not very accurate nor reliable - science do not use them in measurements. Instead, measuring tools are used. for their heterogeneous IP, ATM and Frame Relay networks," said Alan Sguigna, vice president of marketing for Adtech. "With SLAM, there is finally a single platform which can validate performance guarantees across literally billions of flows within a core data network." Adtech's SLAM provides a range of testing functions from simple performance monitoring to network service provisioning, Service Level Agreement (SLA) verification, end-to-end QoS analysis, one-way and round-trip latency measurement, troubleshooting, traffic policing, and statistics gathering. With SLAM permanently installed, statistics gathering, analysis, and corresponding tests can be automated and repeated on an ongoing basis. Data is gathered around the clock and reported regularly to a centralized server with a high degree of precision and timeliness. These reports can even be posted to a secure Web portal See portal. allowing customers and test engineers to check network performance 24/7 anywhere in the world in real-time. "This testing capability benefits both end users and service provider," Sguigna said. "The end user is assured that services will be available at their contracted quality levels and service providers benefit from the most sophisticated analysis and testing available today." Availability Adtech's SLAM system is available now. About Adtech, Inc. Adtech, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of broadband test systems and data link simulation equipment. Its AX/4000 Broadband Test System was named 1999's "Best of the Best" by InternetWeek magazine. Located in Honolulu, the company currently employs approximately 225 people, including 80 electronics and software engineers, and markets its products 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. , South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. The company also has regional offices in California, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , Texas and the United Kingdom. Adtech is a SPIRENT Company. For more information about Adtech, go to http://www.adtech-inc.com. About SPIRENT Communications SPIRENT Communications combines the resources of five leading test and measurement companies including Adtech, DLS DLS abbr. Doctor of Library Science TestWorks, GSS (storage) GSS - Group-Sweeping Scheduling. , Netcom Systems and TAS TAS abbr. 1. telephone answering system 2. true airspeed , to provide customers with full-breadth of comprehensive and integrated tests. SPIRENT Communications' solutions are indispensable to developers and evaluators of next-generation Internet and communications technologies. SPIRENT plc (formerly Bowthorpe plc) owns all SPIRENT Communications companies. For more information please visit the SPIRENT Communications website at www.spirentcommunications.com. SPIRENT Communications was recently named as the winner of the Best of Show Award at NetWorld+Interop 2000 in the Performance Test and Measurement Category for its new TeraMetrics(TM) system from Netcom Systems. TeraMetrics for Netcom's SmartBits products is the first open test platform to allow integration of third party test applications. Adtech claimed one of the two runner-up positions in the same category for their new OC-192c Test Solution, which offers a 10 Gbps performance capability. |
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