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February 27, 2006
Tollgrade to Feature Cheetah Systems for VoIP and IP Services
TMCnet VoIP Minute Watch Columnist
Tollgrade Communications Inc. announced on Monday that it will feature Tollgrade Cheetah Cable Network Assurance systems at an industry event. Tollgrade's exhibit will feature products that address the challenges of VoIP- and IP-based service deployments. The Cheetah VoIP software module for Tollgrade's DOCSIS-based transponder tests VoIP Quality of Service (QoS), manages network performance and remotely isolates multi-layered service troubles by identifying and correlating faults within customer, outside plant, headend and core network locations.
"Tollgrade's Cheetah Cable Solution is an industry first, integrating HFC, DOCSIS and VoIP fault/performance data into a single system. Most broadband troubles persist between the headend and the customer residence. This unique multi-layered capability provides a critical element of our customer's installation and maintenance process for cable broadband services," said Mark Peterson, Tollgrade's CEO.
Tollgrade's integrated hardware and software offering allows cable broadband service providers to build, operate and assure their VoIP networks, applications and services by providing proactive, end-to-end service level management (SLM) and service level agreement (SLA) verification.
The Cheetah Service Assurance system is comprised of a remotely-installable PacketCable-based E-MTA emulator software upgrade and a strategically located suite of DOCSIS-based power supply transponders and ruggedized DOCSIS-based End-of-Line probes for in-network active VoIP testing.
Tollgrade made news last week when it announced it completed its acquisition of the wireline test system unit of Emerson Network Power, Energy Systems, North America Inc., a subsidiary of Emerson.
Earlier this month, Tollgrade signed an agreement to purchase substantially all of the assets and assume certain specified liabilities of Emerson Network Power’s test system unit for approximately $5.5 million in cash, subject to adjustments for working capital and other items. Tollgrade preliminarily expects that the acquisition may be initially dilative to GAAP earnings per share, but accretive by the end of fiscal year 2006, and could add to 2006 revenues in the range of $7 million to $8 million.
As Tollgrade stated in its February 8, 2006 news release, the acquisition will add a largely international portfolio of telecommunications customers for which Emerson Network Power currently provides wireline testing software and hardware products for DSL and traditional POTS applications.
Tollgrade currently deploys test systems in about one third of the world's existing access lines; the acquisition of Emerson Network Power's test system unit would increase Tollgrade's embedded base of telco access lines by approximately 25 percent, mostly in the international market.
Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit Johanne Torres' columnist page.
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