Aetna Insures the Quality of Its IP Network and Services with Brix Networks.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2003 One Of The Nation's Leading Health, Dental, Group Life, And Long-Term Care long-term care (LTC), n the provision of medical, social, and personal care services on a recurring or continuing basis to persons with chronic physical or mental disorders. Benefits Providers Using Brix Service Assurance Solutions To Verify The Quality Of Its New Enterprise-Wide VoIP Network Brix Networks (www.brixnet.com), the trusted provider of real-time service assurance solutions for real-time networks, today announced that Aetna, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AET AET Aetna, Inc. AET After Extra Time AET Actual Evapotranspiration AET Alliance for Environmental Technology AET Alpha-Ethyltryptamine AET Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. ), one of the nation's leading providers of health, dental, group life, disability, and long-term care benefits, has chosen the Brix System to enhance its ability to verify and monitor the quality of its new enterprise-wide Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) network infrastructure and services. VoIP is a technology that allows ordinary phone calls to be transformed into packets of data and efficiently transmitted over the Internet at high quality and reduced cost compared with the public switched telephone network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ). Initially, Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna is deploying more than 70 Brix 100(TM) and Brix 1000(TM) Verifiers, purpose-built, in-network hardware appliances, along with the scalable BrixWorx(TM) central site software system running the Brix Advanced VoIP Test Suite, to test, monitor, and verify the service levels of its internal Internet telephony Another term for IP telephony and VoIP. In the late 1990s, some people made a distinction between Internet Telephony and VoIP: Internet telephony referred to voice over the public Internet, while VoIP referred to voice over private IP networks. system. "With our new mission-critical VoIP initiative, it is vital we provide all our users with the exact same quality and level of phone service they have been used to receiving from the circuit-based legacy system," said Geof Carofino, network engineer at Aetna. "The easy-to-deploy Brix solutions help us to proactively monitor and maintain exceptional VoIP service levels all across our organization so that our business keeps running smoothly." "From initial assessment, to continuous monitoring, to executive reporting, the Brix System is a multi-faceted and highly strategic tool that is helping large enterprises like Aetna manage all the phases associated with the deployment of advanced IP services in their networks," said Tom Pincince, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Brix Networks. Aetna provides benefits to employer and plan sponsor customers in all 50 states, ranging from large, multi-site national accounts to middle-market and small-employer groups, and the company serves more Fortune 1000 customers than any of its competitors. Its products include the full range of health insurance, including dental and pharmacy benefits, from HMO HMO health maintenance organization. HMO n. A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, and POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale to PPO PPO abbr. preferred provider organization PPO Managed care Preferred provider organization, see there Infectious disease Pleuropneumonia-like organism, see there and indemnity, as well as group insurance products such as life, disability, and long-term care insurance. The award-winning Brix System is a seamlessly integrated hardware and software product that is the industry's first complete solution built specially to address the IP performance management challenges facing organizations today. It consists of a family of hardware platforms that are deployed as the IP service demarc, including the Brix 100 Verifier, the Brix 1000 Verifier, and the Brix 2500(TM) Verifier, which are tightly coupled with the carrier-class BrixWorx software system. About Aetna Aetna is one of the nation's leading providers of health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability, and long-term care products, serving approximately 13.7 million medical members, 11.8 million dental members, and 11.7 million group insurance customers, as of December 31, 2002. The company has expansive nationwide networks of more than 552,000 health care services providers, including over 332,000 primary care and specialist physicians and 3,373 hospitals. For more information about Aetna, visit the company's Web site at www.aetna.com. About Brix Networks Founded in July 1999, Brix Networks develops and markets real-time service assurance and performance management solutions that verify the quality of advanced, Internet Protocol-based services, such as VoIP, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Web-hosted business applications, and streaming media. The Chelmsford, Mass.-based company's offerings allow carriers, service providers, large enterprises, and government agencies to build, operate, and assure their IP networks and services by providing proactive, end-to-end, service level management (SLM See service level management system and spatial light modulator. ) 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. ) verification. Additional information about Brix Networks can be found on the company's Web site at www.brixnet.com, and by calling 978-367-5600, or 1-888-BRIXNET. Brix, Brix Networks, the Brix Networks logo, Brix 100, Brix 1000, Brix 2500, BrixWorx, and Brixnet are trademarks of Brix Networks, Inc. All other company or product names mentioned may be trademarks of their respective holders. |
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