Agilent Technologies Acquires the Silicon Valley Networking Lab to Enter High-growth Market for Networking Test Services.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000 Acquisition of San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. Company Adds Conformance Testing Conformance testing or type testing is testing to determine whether a system meets some specified standard. To aid in this, many test procedures and test setups have been developed, either by the standard's maintainers or external organizations, specifically for and Product Certification Product certification or product qualification is the process of certifying that a certain product has passed performance and/or quality assurance tests or qualification requirements stipulated in regulations such as a building code and nationally accredited test standards, to Agilent's Service Offering Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today announced that it has acquired The Silicon Valley Networking Lab, Inc., a leading networking-industry test lab. SVNL SVNL Silicon Valley Networking Lab SVNL Suomen Voimanostoliitto Ry (Finland) offers a range of services for performance, benchmarking, interoperability, functional and conformance testing. SVNL's solutions are targeted at networking-equipment makers, communications service providers, and system integrators. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Agilent Technologies is a global, diversified technology company created by Hewlett-Packard Company's realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. into two fully independent companies. &uot;With the addition of SVNL, Agilent plans to build a leading independent test and analysis center and to offer a substantially increased range of services to current and future customers in the networking and communications industry,&uot; said LuAnn Piccard, general manager of Agilent's Communications Solutions Services Division, of which SVNL is now a part. &uot;As a result of this acquisition, Agilent will offer a new level of testing and analysis competency, expertise, and range of testing services that is presently not available to the industry.&uot; &uot;SVNL has identified and addressed a major niche for test services,&uot; said Steve Bell, SVNL founder and networking-industry veteran who heads the new networking lab at Agilent. &uot;There is a critical and unfilled need for high-quality, outsourced test services. As a result, SVNL was able to build a client base of more than 50 key networking OEMs, systems integrators and industry groups in a very short time span.&uot; Most recently, SVNL was chosen by Lockheed Martin Corp. as the test lab for evaluating advanced Internet Protocol (IP) multicast applications over a 600-node gigabit Ethernet network powered by routers from Cisco Systems, Inc. &uot;With Agilent's engineering and financial resources, we are ready to build the kind of large-scale operation and set of services that this dynamic networking industry demands,&uot; said Bell. Information about The Silicon Valley Networking Lab can be found on the Web at www.svnl.com. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. itself into two fully independent companies. With 42,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. The businesses comprising Agilent, a subsidiary of HP, had net revenues of more than $8.3 billion in fiscal year 1999. Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. |
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