Tektronix Evaluates IMS

BEAVERTON, Ore. -- Tektronix, Inc. (NYSE: TEK), a leading worldwide provider of communications network management and diagnostics solutions, announced the successful evaluations of vendor IMS implementations with its new IMS interoperability test suite at the IMS Forum's™ first annual IMS Plugfest™ for Applications and Services in January.

"The IMS Forum Plugfest brought together telecommunication leaders committed to furthering the development of IMS interoperability and certification," said Michael Khalilian, Chairman and President, IMS Forum. "Tektronix holds a solid position in the IMS interoperability testing arena. We were happy to have Tektronix participating in this first-of-its-kind Plugfest, and we look forward to working together on future IMS Forum events."

The Tektronix IMS test suite, running off the G35 functional test platform, simulated IMS terminal devices to evaluate the implementations of participating IMS vendors. The test suite consists of more than 100 selected test cases, which are carefully designed to focus on procedures that are complex and likely to cause interoperability problems. The abstract test suite implementation is based on TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation version 3), the global open standard for test case definition and language. Using a suite of test cases allows for a high degree of test-automation, boosting the efficiency of IMS device and system test campaigns and significantly reducing test time (time to market) and test cost. All test traffic is captured and decoded through Tektronix' G20/G35 analysis software, allowing for rapid root cause isolation of failed test scenarios.

"Tektronix' IMS solutions ensure IMS infrastructure interoperability to reduce time to market and enhance the customer experience for innovative IMS solutions," said Othmar Kyas, Director of Strategic Marketing, Network Diagnostics, Tektronix. "Our team was pleased to bring our experiences to the event and participate in such an important industry-wide validation process for IMS applications and services."

Tektronix Inc.