North Electric Selects Psytechnics to Boost Voice Quality Assurance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 2003 DataMEG Corp. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : DTMG) subsidiary North Electric Company Inc. (NECI NECI New England Culinary Institute (since 1980; Montpelier and Essex, Vermont) NECI National Electrical Contractors Ireland (UK) NECI National Emergency Communications Institute ), a lead contender in the network testing and assurance market, has selected Psytechnics' PESQ PESQ Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (ITU-T) (TM) suite as its choice of voice quality measurement software. NECI will integrate Psytechnics' PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) and ASTS ASTS American Society of Transplant Surgeons ASTS Aeromedical Staging Squadron ASTS Asbestos in Schools Tracking System ASTS Advanced Surveillance & Tracking System ASTS Advance Supplement Testing Systems, Inc. (Artificial Speech-like Test Stimulus) products into its Network Assurance System solution. NECI is targeting its end-to-end network assurance offering at major carriers, where the Psytechnics technology will be used to measure voice quality accurately in support of service level agreements (SLAs) and overall quality of service (QoS). PESQ and ASTS will be used across a variety of networks such as IP, TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. and converged IP and TDM. The Psytechnics software, combined with NECI's solution, will produce detailed reports on voice quality which is used to back up SLAs and provide guarantees of QoS. "We've developed a real insight into the needs of carriers as they evolve their networks to IP-based solutions. Our customers are demanding an accurate system to be able to measure voice quality and we chose Psytechnics, because its PESQ suite is the leader in this field," said Dan Ference, 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. at NECI. "Meeting SLAs is critical for carriers and we felt that PESQ is a very effective tool to support our product's ability to validate voice quality measurement criteria." "North Electric went through a very careful evaluation of voice quality assurance products, so the decision to implement our software is testimony to how powerful PESQ is," said John Winchester, CEO at Psytechnics. "Everyone is concerned about the IP infrastructure and having very accurate solutions in place to measure voice quality is paramount. Without this in place, there is little hope that SLAs and overall QoS can be met with any guarantee of certainty." PESQ is network independent and can be used in a wide range of applications, including commissioning and troubleshooting networks, and testing of telecom equipment. PESQ is applicable in traditional 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. , mobile and VoIP networks. ASTS is an accurate test signal based on the characteristics of real speech, designed for use with intrusive voice quality testing systems such as PESQ and PAMS PAMS para-amino salicylic acid. . For further information on Psytechnics' PESQ and ASTS, visit http://www.psytechnics.com/products/pesq_suite/index.html. For more information about NECI or DataMEG Corp., contact Rich Kaiser of YES INTERNATIONAL at 800/631-9127. About North Electric Company Inc. (NECI) North Electric Company Inc. (NECI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of DataMEG Corp., is a provider of network assurance solutions and services. NECI provides customer solutions that cover the traditional TDM voice, IP voice and converged voice and packet networks. Networks that deploy MPLS (1) (MultiProtocol Lambda Switching) The earlier name for GMPLS. See GMPLS. (2) (MultiProtocol Label Switching) A standard from the IETF for including routing information in the packets of an IP network. technology receive additional fault isolation and related benefits using NECI's innovative system solutions. The NECI products enable service providers and network operators to efficiently introduce new services and to quickly and automatically determine if their network is meeting its quality 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. ) expectations, all while lowering network operational costs. For more information about NECI see www.northelectriccompany.com. About Psytechnics Psytechnics is the leading designer of voice quality measurement software solutions which integrate into telecommunications test equipment, switching platforms, mobile networks and VoIP gateways. The company provides the mean opinion score (MOS (1) (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) See MOSFET. (2) (Mean Opinion Score) The quality of a digitized voice line. It is a subjective measurement that is derived entirely by people listening to the calls and scoring the results from ), a numerical measure of the quality of human speech, or "customer experience" metric. MOS metrics may be used to manage networks and set SLAs from a meaningful, quality viewpoint. Psytechnics has operations throughout the U.S. and Europe, and its customers include Agilent Technologies, Empirix, Malden Electronics, Ascom, Inet and Schlumberger. The company holds over 30 patents in the area of speech quality measurement and its products include the ITU standards P.562 CCI and P.862 PESQ, psyVoIP for IP networks, and NiQA for monitoring the quality of other network traffic. Psytechnics is a spin-off company of Brightstar, BTexact Technologies' corporate technology incubator. For further information, visit www.psytechnics.com. |
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