EXFO Service Assurance (formerly Brix Networks) has forged strategic relationships with the following leading organizations that offer the company's open and extensible converged service assurance solutions worldwide as either Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) or reseller partners:
- Agilent Technologies
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Harris Stratex Networks, Inc.
- Sonus Networks, Inc.
- Spirent Communications
- Tektronix, Inc.
- Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
If you are interested in pursuing a possible strategic OEM or reseller relationship with EXFO Service Assurance on a global basis, please contact Richard Blatt, Manager of Business Development, at 978-367-5606, or rblatt@brixnet.com.
Agilent Technologies
Corporate Headquarters
395 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Tel: 650-752-5000
www.agilent.com
Agilent Technologies resells Brix Networks' hardware and software service assurance solutions, including the Brix 100, Brix 1000, and Brix 2500 Verifiers, along with the BrixWorx central-site software system and its Advanced VoIP and Video Test Suites, to service providers worldwide as part of Agilent’s NgN Analysis System.
Agilent has also integrated the BrixWorx software so that the real-time VoIP quality performance data and statistics collected by BrixWorx automatically flow into the NgN Analysis System.
Additionally, the Agilent OSS VoIP QoS Manager, the newest product in Agilent’s VoIP service assurance portfolio, integrates Brix Networks' voice-quality verification functionality with Agilent’s signaling-based VoIP solution to help service providers quickly identify and isolate VoIP quality problems.
AGILENT IN COMMUNICATIONS
Agilent Technologies is a leading provider of components, test, measurement, monitoring, and management solutions for the communications industry. Agilent enables designers, manufacturers, and service providers to accelerate the delivery of next-generation devices, networks, and services. Agilent’s broad set of solutions and services includes optical, wireless, Internet, and broadband technologies that span the entire communications life cycle.
ABOUT AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES
Agilent Technologies Inc. is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences, and chemical analysis. The company’s 30,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $6 billion in fiscal year 2002.
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Alcatel-Lucent
Corporate Headquarters
54 rue la Boétie
Paris 75008, France
www.alcatel-lucent.com
Alcatel-Lucent Services resells the entire line of Brix Networks' converged service assurance solutions to its carrier, service provider, enterprise, and public sector customers worldwide. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent's professional services OSS/BSS practice specifies the Brix System into its solution frameworks recommended to, and deployed by, carriers and service providers around the world. Alcatel-Lucent has also deployed the Brix System to manage voice quality for its managed and hosted VoIP customers.
Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband networking, IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications services for people at home, at work, and on the move.
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Harris Stratex Networks, Inc.
Corporate Headquarters
Research Triangle Park
637 Davis Drive
Morrisville, NC 27560
Tel: 919-767-3230
www.harrisstratex.com
Harris Stratex Networks resells the entire portfolio of Brix Networks' award-winning converged service assurance solutions around the world as part of its NetBoss network management offering.
Harris Stratex Networks, Inc. is a leading independent supplier of turnkey wireless transmission and service assurance solutions. The company offers reliable, flexible, and scalable wireless network solutions, backed by comprehensive network management software, professional services, and support. Harris Stratex Networks serves all global markets, including mobile network operators, public safety agencies, private network operators, utility and transportation companies, government agencies, and broadcasters. Customers in more than 135 countries depend on Harris Stratex Networks to build, expand, and upgrade their voice, data, and video solutions.
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Sonus Networks, Inc.
250 Apollo Drive
Chelmsford, MA 01824
Tel: 978-614-8100
www.sonusnet.com
Sonus Networks resells Brix Networks' converged service assurance solutions to its carrier and service provider customers around the world. Brix is also a member of Sonus Networks' Open Services Partner Alliance (OSPA). The OSPA program provides a framework that offers service providers end-to-end, packet-based network solutions using best-of breed technologies and applications. The mission of the OSPA is to empower standards-based interoperability between applications, third-party vendors, and Sonus products.
Additionally, Brix has earned the "Powered" partner level in the OSPA for proven integration with Sonus products. To achieve "Powered" status, hardware and software solutions from Brix Networks have successfully passed rigorous interoperability tests with Sonus products in that company's OSPA Interoperability Lab located in Richardson, Texas.
Founded in 1997, Sonus Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of packet voice infrastructure products for the new public network. With its Open Services Architecture (OSA), Sonus delivers end-to-end solutions addressing a full range of carrier applications. Sonus' award-winning voice infrastructure solutions, including media gateways, softswitches, and network management systems, are deployed in service provider networks worldwide.
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Spirent Communications
15200 Omega Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
Tel: 301-590-3600
www.spirentcom.com
Brix Networks and Spirent Communications are working together to provide comprehensive IP service management to providers worldwide.
Spirent Communications is integrating Brix Networks' IP service assurance solutions into Spirent’s CenterOp™ intelligent service management operations support system (OSS) platform.
Driven by the expressed needs of service providers to unify management of converging IP services, the Spirent-Brix relationship responds to the growing need for visibility into IP services across all seven layers of the Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model. Enabling end-to-end management of IP services all the way from the point of origin, through core networks, multivendor routing technologies, and to the customer premises — thus facilitating the assurance and ongoing integrity of customers’ fully deployed network infrastructures — is critical to delivering emerging data services.
Spirent Communications unites the best in performance analysis technology with network operations expertise. The company’s award-winning solutions enable customers to accelerate the development, deployment, and assurance of next-generation network equipment and services worldwide.
Spirent Communications designs and manufactures Adtech, DLS, Edgcumbe, GSS, Hekimian, SmartBits, TAS, and Zarak products. More than 3,000 of the world’s leading network and terminal equipment manufacturers, network service providers, corporate enterprises, and test laboratories rely on the company’s first-to-market products to verify and measure the performance and services of networks and communications devices.
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Tektronix, Inc.
1500 North Greenville Avenue
Richardson, TX 75081
Tel: 469-330-4000
www.tek.com
Tektronix resells and provides support services for the Brix System to carriers around the world as part of that company's Unified Assurance portfolio.
Tektronix, Inc. is a test, measurement, and monitoring company providing measurement solutions to the communications, computer, and semiconductor industries worldwide. With 60 years of experience, Tektronix enables its customers to design, build, deploy, and manage next-generation global communications networks and advanced technologies. Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, Tektronix has operations in 19 countries worldwide.
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Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
493 Nixon Road
Cheswick, PA 15024
Tel: 412-820-1400
www.tollgrade.com
Tollgrade Communications resells Brix Networks' converged service assurance solutions worldwide to its carrier, service provider, and cable customers as part of its Cheetah product line.
Tollgrade Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of network service assurance products and services for centralized test systems around the world. Tollgrade designs, engineers, markets, and supports centralized test systems, test access and status monitoring products, and next-generation network assurance technologies for the broadband marketplace.
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