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UNH Partners with TraceSpan to Provide GPON Interoperability and Conformance Testing

UNH-IOL, a neutral, third-party laboratory dedicated to testing data networking technologies through industry collaboration, and TraceSpan Communications, a leader in broadband analysis and monitoring solutions, announce today their partnership for GPON interoperability and conformance testing.

In the frame of this partnership the UNH-IOL labs will build a GPON test environment using TraceSpan's GPON Xpert(TM) analyzer. This test environment will allow them to perform extensive GPON testing, including among others interoperability testing according the BBF WT-255 test plan.

As a multi-layer analyzer, GPON Xpert(TM) will provide UNH-IOL and its customers with full visibility to the content of all the protocols and layers on the GPON network, including MAC and OMCI layers, as well as the user traffic on the GPON network in protocol layers such as Ethernet, PPP, PPPoE, IPv4, IPv6, TCP, IGMP and HTTP. Its sophisticated Validation Testing mechanism will allow UNH-IOL to provide go/no-go indications about compliance with the test cases, as well as with other user-defined test cases.

"As UNH-IOL expands its GPON testing activities, we identified the need for a GPON analyzer as a major building block for our test environment," said Lincoln Lavoie, UNH-IOL Senior Engineer, Broadband Technologies. "As a world-recognized test lab, an architect of the BBF WT-255 Interoperability Test Plan and a leading contributor to the BBF.247 conformance test plan, we are committed to creating the best GPON testing environment possible. We feel TraceSpan and their GPON Xpert(TM) product are a great fit in this environment and will improve the GPON testing available at the UNH-IOL."

"We are proud to have UNH-IOL as our partner," said Dr. Hanan Herzberg, TraceSpan founder and CEO, "and we are confident that we will add significant value to UNH-IOL and their customers by providing comprehensive standard-compliant GPON testing solutions. UNH-IOL's decision confirmed again that our solutions are the best ones out there."

About the UNH-IOL

Founded in 1988, the UNH-IOL provides independent, broad-based interoperability and standards conformance testing for data, telecommunications and storage networking products and technologies. Combining extensive staff experience, standards bodies participation and a 32,000+ square foot facility, the UNH-IOL helps companies efficiently and cost effectively deliver products to the market. For more information, visit http://www.iol.unh.edu, or connect with the UNH-IOL on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/UNHIOL, on Twitter at @UNH_IOL [http://twitter.com/#!/UNH_IOL ] and on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/company/unh-interoperability-lab.

About TraceSpan Communications

TraceSpan Communications develops and manufactures innovative broadband testing and monitoring solutions. Empowered by patent-pending breakthrough technology, TraceSpan's performance analysis and Lawful Interception products enable non-intrusive monitoring of data in broadband networks. TraceSpan's multi-layer analyzers are accepted worldwide as the industry's first passive analyzers for vendor-independent testing of VDSL2, ADSL2Plus, ADSL2, ADSL, GPON and DOCSIS networks. Highly flexible and easy to use, TraceSpan products deliver significant cost savings, faster time to market, and rapid return on investment to Telco's, MSOs and service providers, system vendors, chipset developers, and technology innovators. For more information, visit http://www.tracespan.com.

        
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