Adtech Teams Up with Quallaby to Deliver Complete Network Management Solution.Business Editors & High Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2000 Booth No. 6261 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 Adtech Inc, a SPIRENT Company, is pleased to announce it has entered a strategic marketing alliance with Quallaby Corp. to provide network service providers with true carrier-class network management solutions. The alliance creates a powerful combination of high-performance monitoring and analysis features offered by Adtech's new SLAM(TM) (Service Level Agreement Monitor) system and Quallaby's PROVISO(R) 2.0 carrier-class software for network management and service assurance. "We discovered that Quallaby's scalable network data management and flexible reporting features offered the ideal solution to enhance our SLAM system's comprehensive network performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. ," said Alan Sguigna, vice president of marketing for Adtech. "With PROVISO, our carrier customers finally have an integrated way to manage their IP, ATM and 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. networks." Adtech's SLAM provides a range of testing functions from simple performance monitoring to network service provisioning, 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. ) verification, end-to-end QoS analysis, one-way and round-trip latency measurement, troubleshooting, traffic policing, and statistics gathering. Going beyond what is currently available today with simpler network probes, Adtech's solution supports true real-time differentiated services Offerings that can be classified by type, or quality, of service. For example, a differentiated services network could prioritize real time traffic for a higher fee. analysis across thousands of streams and millions of flows in a core backbone data network. When combined with Quallaby's PROVISO(R) 2.0, network service providers can access their critical data in real time and view customizable reports via a secure Web portal See portal. , allowing them to provision services more quickly and measure service levels more accurately. "The SLAM/PROVISO combination is a powerful carrier solution," said Tom Axbey, vice president of marketing and business development for Quallaby. "Adtech's SLAM provides PROVISO with critical metrics for SLA definition and verification. Adtech's carrier focus and understanding of next generation requirements for SLAs complements productively that of Quallaby's." Availability Adtech's SLAM system with the Quallaby's PROVISO 2.0 is available July 2000. 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 Solutions which offers a 10 Gbps performance capability. About Quallaby(R) Quallaby Corporation is a leading provider of highly scalable network management solutions worldwide. Quallaby's PROVISO(R) 2.0 is the first carrier-class network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. and service assurance solution to enable carriers and network service providers to build the network performance data marts they need to meet their business requirements. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, Quallaby has offices in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, California, Texas and Virginia. Chosen one of the Top 100 Emerging Companies to Watch in 2000 by Computerworld, Quallaby is a privately-held company with venture financing from Matrix Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Galileo, and Partech International. For more information, visit Quallaby's web site at www.quallaby.com or call toll-free 877/QUALLABY (782-5522). |
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