Acterna Launches Its SAS

LONDON and GERMANTOWN, Md. -- Acterna today announced the introduction of Service Assurance Solutions, a business unit to proactively address the critical business challenges facing today's telecom and cable network operators competing to efficiently and rapidly deliver the "triple play" bundle of advanced voice, data and video services over IP networks. Acterna, the leader in test and management solutions for consumer and business broadband communications, unveiled Service Assurance Solutions at CeBIT 2005 in Hannover on March 10.

When deploying new services such as voice over IP (VoIP), broadband access or IP TV, network operators require confidence in their ability to deliver high-quality, reliable services. In light of intense industry competition and high customer churn rates, network operators cannot afford missed install dates, poor quality, signal interference/spectrum incompatibility, dropped calls, and equipment incompatibility/interoperability. These real challenges are compounded when network operators prematurely launch advanced services without the proper performance management and service assurance processes that prevent customer dissatisfaction, cost overruns and weak financial performance.

Service Assurance Solutions provides next generation network operators with the systems to enable end-to-end service management across their converged broadband IP infrastructure. Capable of performing quick service turn-up, fault isolation, troubleshooting, ongoing performance monitoring and network capacity planning, it is ideally positioned to help network operators quickly deploy IP-based broadband services while lowering operating expense.

Acterna Corp.