Zarlink and Tollgrade combined test solution to improve triple-play service reliability

Zarlink and Tollgrade have announced their collaborative line test solution design for telecom carriers to improve triple play service reliability.

With this new line test solution, carriers will be able to routinely and remotely monitor and test access lines to detect and repair issues before a customer experiences a problem. The remote functionality serves to shorten issue response time and reduce costly truck rolls, which can result a low customer churn rates and operating expenses. And the Tollgrade testing solutions supports qualification, provisioning and service assurance processes for telecom service providers.

Zarlink's VoiceEdge VE792 Next Generation Carrier Chipset (NGCC) is combined with Tollgrade's new Stratum service assurance platform to allow voice-access OEMs to integrate a interoperable solution with equivalent performance to a traditional test head. This feature is expected to be available by the end of 2009.

"Carriers are demanding a new class of access equipment that provides highly flexible in-field operational testing to meet performance and cost requirements," said Shahin Sadeghi, segment-marketing manager for carrier-class voice products with Zarlink. "Our continuing collaboration with Tollgrade has resulted in a unique total system solution, combining the VE792 NGCC with Tollgrade's Stratum service assurance platform, providing state-of-the-art line test capabilities to significantly reduce network test costs for carriers."

"With this capability, service providers will immediately have uniform test performance and network coverage as they begin their deployments of next generation access nodes," said Chris Barton, executive director of technical marketing at Tollgrade.
For more details visit www.zarlink.com