Tollgrade Introduces Stratum(TM) Service Assurance Platform for Testing Triple Play Services for Telecom Operators

Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:TLGD) today announced the launch of its new service assurance platform solution, called Stratum(TM). After nearly a year in development, Stratum is being introduced to telecom providers to help integrate new IP-based network testing initiatives with existing platforms, thus providing integrated test analysis across a variety of access technologies. The Stratum service assurance platform is being designed to support end-to-end diagnostics for triple play services with the goal of providing telecom operators with a higher degree of reliable service delivery in a very competitive consumer market.

Stratum will support multiple data inputs from a customer's network and test resources, including Tollgrade's existing 4TEL(R), Celerity(R) and LoopCare(TM) software platforms and test probes, and perform combinational expert system analysis of faults in the access network to enable more effective dispatching of field resources.

Stratum is currently being deployed in trials with customers in the United States and South America. Tollgrade will officially unveil Stratum at Broadband World Forum Europe 2009, Paris, September 7-9, 2009. It is expected to be generally available to the market by the end of this year.

In commenting on the new service assurance solution, Patrick Kelly, Research Director and industry analyst, Analysys Mason, said, "Tollgrade has developed this platform with the needs of the customer service organization in mind, ensuring those teams have the information to know the root cause of a trouble report, and how to quickly and effectively respond to it. This customer service response is especially important for supporting complex triple play services such as IP video where fast fault isolation is necessary to get customers' service restored as quickly as possible."

SOURCE: Tollgrade Communications, Inc.

Tollgrade Communications, Inc. 
Bob Butter 
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