Spirent Intros Triple-Play Tester

ROCKVILLE, MD -- Spirent Communications (NYSE: SPM; LSE: SPT) today announced the availability of the Spirent Distributed Abacus 53 IP Telephony and Video Rollout System designed to assess and validate infrastructure performance, voice, and video media quality in pre-production, triple play networks.

Service providers competing to make triple-play service bundles available to customers face new challenges. They need to assure performance for both individual network elements and end-to-end voice and video services across complex and distributed packet and circuit infrastructures.

Spirent has condensed its award-winning Abacus 5000 IP Telephony Test Migration System into a smaller, more economical form factor ideally suited for distributed deployment at key locations on the network. It enables service providers and enterprises to reduce time to market of IP-based voice, video and data services, while meeting the quality requirements as perceived by users.

The economics of the Distributed Abacus 53 allow it to be perpetually reused in the network or the lab, thereby making service provider and enterprise VoIP rollouts affordable. In transferring Abacus 5000 technology into a smaller form factor, Spirent can test a wide range of protocols and interfaces presented by emerging triple-play services.

“Shrinking the Abacus 5000 into a smaller, less expensive package enables many of our service provider and enterprise customers to conduct network testing they couldn’t do before,” said Bahaa Moukadam, vice president, IP Telephony for Spirent Communications. “By testing on the network, it helps uncover issues that can go undetected even with the most rigorous lab testing.”

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