Casabyte Acquires Wireless Service Verification Business Unit from Acterna.Business Editors RENTON, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 2003 Acterna Wireless Service Verification product line will enhance the expansion and global reach Casabyte has established in the automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. wireless quality assessment arena. Casabyte, Inc., a worldwide provider of wireless Quality of Service (QoS) solutions, today announced that it closed the acquisition of Acterna's Wireless Service Verification business on August 4, 2003. The acquisition includes Acterna's Service Verification System (SVS SVS - OS/VS2 ) and Automated Comparison System (ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ), formerly known as AirAudit, AirCompare and AirReport. "Wireless carriers and, ultimately, their customers are the big winners from this combination of the Acterna SVS and Casabyte RCATS(R) product lines," said John S. Read, Casabyte's president. I believe that, as the market matures, the market leaders will be the companies, like Casabyte, that focus on providing the required combination of products and the services required to integrate those products into today's complex mobile networks." "Casabyte enjoys a good reputation working with some of the leaders in the wireless industry," said Helmut Berg, president of Acterna's Telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. Division. "The agreement with Casabyte is an important step as we focus Acterna's resources on our core communications test strengths. We believe that our SVS and ACS customers are going to be working with a great company whose core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
Casabyte, a northwest wireless telecommunications company See telecom company. , is the developer of advanced automated wireless quality assessment technologies used by wireless services providers worldwide. Casabyte's solution, a suite of products called RCATS, enables wireless service providers, equipment vendors, application providers and system integrators See systems integrator. to proactively access real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , network-wide information on the performance and availability of the services they offer their subscribers. Acterna's SVS and ACS product lines are a perfect fit with Casabyte's existing product portfolio, enhancing the ability to monitor the consistency and dependability dependability - software reliability of subscriber services. Acterna offers a wide range of solutions to meet the testing requirements of wireless carriers. Acterna's SVS and ACS product lines provide wireless telecommunications companies the power to take control over quality of service concerns and revenue leakage LEAKAGE. The waste which has taken place in liquids, by their escaping out of the casks or vessels in which they were kept. By the act of March 2, 1799, s. 59, 1 Story's L. U. S, 625, it is provided that there be an allowance of two per cent for leakage, on the quantity which shall appear . SVS performs routine and automated testing (testing) automated testing - Software testing assisted with software tools that require no operator input, analysis, or evaluation. to quickly detect network service and billing errors, ensuring network functionality and integrity. ACS enables end-to-end revenue assurance testing to ensure billing accuracy. Following closing, Acterna's Wireless Service Verification Business Unit will be integrated into Casabyte's product line. Casabyte intends to assume responsibility for customer support of Acterna's existing wireless service verification customers, thus ensuring they will continue to receive the best quality care. About Casabyte, Inc. Casabyte, Inc. is a world leader in providing automated quality assessment technology to the wireless industry. Casabyte's advanced wireless QoS solutions enable wireless service providers, equipment vendors, applications providers and system integrators to remotely monitor and audit the quality and availability of subscriber services. Telecommunications companies worldwide count on Casabyte Wireless QoS solutions to optimally manage wireless networks. For more information, please visit http://www.casabyte.com. About Acterna Acterna (ACTRQ.OB) 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 serves customers in more than 80 countries. Acterna is a subsidiary of Acterna Corporation. Information about Acterna can be found on the Web at www.acterna.com. |
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