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More Than 330 Carriers and System Vendors Change the Way They Test with Spirent TestCenter

29th Oct 2007 12:30

Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a global provider ofperformance analysis and service management solutions, today announcedthat it's innovative testing platform, Spirent TestCenter(TM) has beenadopted by more than 330 service providers, enterprises and networkequipment manufacturers worldwide. With a new approach to testing,Spirent TestCenter enables customers to experience significantimprovements in testing economics and productivity during every stageof the product development and service creation process to acceleratetime-to-market while reducing operating and capital expenses. £ Since its introduction, the Spirent TestCenter has grossed morethan $100 million in revenues following the largest monthly (September2007) and quarterly sales results for the most recent third quarter2007. And with more than 140 new customers purchasing SpirentTestCenter in 2007 alone, Spirent is spearheading the next generationtesting evolution by changing the way engineers test and validatetheir systems, applications and services. The recent sales andaccelerating adoption rates have made Spirent TestCenter the singlemost universal test platform serving the integrated layer 2 -7communications test market. £ "As the leading vendor of network security solutions that deliverup to 40Gbps of wirespeed security processing, Crossbeam Systemsneeded a testing platform that could scale along with our solutions,"said Throop Wilder, the company's vice president of marketing. "Inaddition, 100% of our iBeam interoperability certification andperformance tests are automated and require unprecedented levels ofprogrammability. Spirent TestCenter met both the performance andflexibility objectives with flying colors. It is an integral part ofour business and central to the delivery of high customer value." £ "The complexity of next generation technologies is prompting us toevolve our testing methodologies by employing solutions and strategiesthat are repeatable, open, and based on real-world environments," saidJason Needham, director of product management at F5 Networks. "Testingtakes time, is expensive, and presents numerous challenges without theright tools. With Spirent TestCenter's automation and rapid testset-up capabilities, we were able to successfully roll out theindustry's most robust and high-performance Application DeliveryController (ADC) while meeting market demand in a timely andcost-efficient manner." £ In the past, lab engineers used multiple test systems with limitedautomation and scalability to validate system performance, whichlengthened overall product development time and increased R&Dexpenses. Spirent TestCenter is the industry's first solution tochange the way test engineers conduct performance, conformance andvalidation testing. Today, with Spirent TestCenter, a comprehensivetest solution, customers can overcome the challenges related totesting complexities, scarcity of testing skills and the architecturalshortcomings of pre-existing solutions without major overhaul to theirtest labs. This solution greatly increases the productivity ofexisting test resources and elevates equipment utilization levels viaenhanced data correlation methodologies and architecturalimprovements. £ "The Spirent TestCenter model is simple - deliver testingsolutions and data correlation methodologies through an efficient andflexible user interface that drives cost down in the traditional laband development test environment," said Rob Piconi, president andchief operating officer of Spirent Communications. "This formula ofOpEx reduction and CapEx optimization coupled with reduced cycle timesvia our automation frameworks has kicked off an adoption rateexceeding our expectations, and it is clearly because SpirentTestCenter has an immediate economic benefit on our customer's bottomline. Our most recent results demonstrate that we are taking marketshare at our larger customers while achieving significant increases inthe underlying profitability of our business." £ Recent releases of Spirent TestCenter include high-performance CPUmodule for testing of layer 4-7 unencrypted and encrypted Triple Playtraffic and 10GBASE-T capability for testing to the IEEE802.3anstandard. With testing applications that span layer 2-7, SpirentTestCenter supports the testing of evolving protocols and networksarchitectures including layer 2/layer 3 MPLS VPNs, Metro Ethernet andcomplex broadband access topologies. Spirent TestCenter also supportsthe testing of data center network architectures that included networkelements such as high density Ethernet aggregation switches,virtualization, application acceleration and security devices. Tofurther enhance Spirent TestCenter's position as the de-factoPerformance Benchmarking Platform in the industry, the test system nowsupports 2.5 million statistically independent data flows. Thisincreased support allows switch manufacturers to complete full meshtesting of systems as large as 1,500 ports in as little as 15 minutes,all while providing the industries richest set of statistics (latency,loss, jitter etc.) on every flow. £ For more information Spirent TestCenter please visithttp://www.spirent.com/go/STC £ About Spirent Communications plc £ Spirent Communications (www.spirentcom.com) is a global providerof integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems thatenable the development and deployment of next-generation networkingtechnology such as Internet telephony, broadband services, 3Gwireless, global navigation satellite systems, and network securityequipment. Spirent Communications' solutions are used by more than1,500 customers in 30 countries, including the world's largestequipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises andgovernments. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Spirent Communications has 1,500employees worldwide. £ Spirent Communications plc Ordinary shares are traded on theLondon Stock Exchange (ticker: SPT). The Company operates a Level 1American Depositary Receipt ("ADR") programme with each ADRrepresenting four Spirent Communications plc Ordinary shares. The ADRstrade in the US over-the-counter ("OTC") market under the symbol SPMYYand the CUSIP number is 84856M209. Spirent Communications' sales tothe United States government are made through Spirent Federal SystemsInc. www.spirentfederal.com £ Spirent, Spirent Communications and the Spirent logo aretrademarks or registered trademarks of Spirent Communications plc. Allother trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned herein are held bytheir respective companies. All rights reserved. £ This document may contain forward-looking statements which aremade in good faith and are based on current expectations or beliefs,as well as assumptions about future events. You can sometimes, but notalways, identify these statements by the use of a date in the futureor such words as "will", "anticipate", "estimate", "expect","project", "intend", "plan", "should", "may", "assume" and othersimilar words. By their nature, forward-looking statements areinherently predictive and speculative and involve risk and uncertaintybecause they relate to events and depend on circumstances that willoccur in the future. You should not place undue reliance on theseforward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of futureperformance and are subject to factors that could cause our actualresults to differ materially from those expressed or implied by thesestatements. The Company undertakes no obligation to update anyforward-looking statements contained in this document, whether as aresult of new information, future events or otherwise. Copyright Business Wire 2007

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