Tollgrade Inks OEM Pact with Mariner Partners
Jan 25, 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Company: Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (TLGD)
Tollgrade Communications, Inc., a supplier of network service assurance products and solutions, announced its OEM agreement with Mariner Partners Inc., a provider of IP video solutions, for a customized Tollgrade version of the IPTV service assurance solution, xVu TV Care.
With this agreement, Tollgrade said it gains the ability to deliver to its customers a critical test solution for ensuring a positive quality of experience (QoE) for IPTV subscribers globally.
According to a release, Tollgrade will integrate the customized xVu engine into Stratum, its new service assurance platform announced in September 2009. Stratum helps service providers to integrate new IP-based network testing initiatives with existing platforms, providing integrated test analysis across a variety of access technologies. The company said the integration of Stratum with xVu will give service providers actionable, analyzed information necessary to locate, identify and solve subscriber IPTV service issues.
"We are confident that our long list of global customers adding IPTV services to their high speed broadband deployments will benefit from this new service assurance capability," said David Chan, Tollgrade's Executive Director of Marketing. "The combination of set-top box, line test and broadband data in our integrated analysis platform will lead to improved diagnostics of the access and customer premise network."
The company noted that Mariner's xVu suite enables service providers to maintain complete visibility of customers' in-home IPTV QoE, including visibility throughout the contentious "last mile."
"This agreement will enable Tollgrade customers around the globe to provide best in class QoE to their TV customers," said Brock Sansom, Mariner's Vice President for Business Development.
According to a release, Stratum is currently being deployed in customer trials in the United States and South America. The enhanced version of Stratum with the xVu engine, Stratum IPTV SA, is available immediately for trials and is expected to be generally available for license in the second quarter of 2010, the company said.
More Information:
www.tollgrade.com
www.marinerpartners.com
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Company: Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (TLGD)
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