UNH-IOL Expands its Partnership With TraceSpan to Provide GPON ONU Conformance Testing

UNH-IOL Expands its Partnership With TraceSpan to Provide GPON ONU Conformance Testing

UNH-IOL Test Environment Will use TraceSpan's GPON Xpert(TM) OLT Emulator

RA'ANANA, Israel, July 18, 2012/PRNewswire/ --

    TraceSpan Communications, a leader in broadband analysis and monitoring solutions,
announced today the expansion of the company's partnership with the UNH-IOL for GPON
testing. The UNH-IOL is an independent provider of broad-based testing and standards
conformance services for the networking industry.

    In the frame of this partnership the UNH-IOL will use TraceSpan's GPON Xpert(TM) OLT
emulator to perform GPON ONU testing in accordance with the Broadband Forum's OD-247 GPON
ONU Conformance Test Plan.

    The partnership between UNH-IOL and TraceSpan, first announced in February this year,
is focused on building a world class GPON test environment using TraceSpan's GPON Xpert
analyzer. GPON Xpert has been used extensively by UNH-IOL and its customers in the lab and
during plugfest events, greatly aiding in the debugging of testing. Testing in the lab
included a variety of test cases from the draft BBF WT-255 GPON Interoperability Test
Plan.

    GPON Xpert combines OLT emulation with passive and objective analysis, and can perform
these two functions simultaneously, thus serving as a complete integrated test tool for
ONU conformance. The GPON Xpert OLT emulator comes with pre-defined tests for the various
OD-247 test cases. Its embedded multi-layer analysis capability automatically compares the
ONU's behavior and OD-247 criteria using the Validation Test mechanism.

    "As the UNH-IOL expands our GPON testing services, we identified the need for a
neutral chipset-less OLT emulator for our test environment," said Lincoln Lavoie, UNH-IOL
Senior Engineer, Broadband Technologies. "As a world-recognized test lab and a leading
contributor to the OD-247 test plan, we are committed to creating the best GPON testing
environment possible. TraceSpan and their GPON Xpert OLT emulator are a great fit in this
environment and will further improve the GPON testing available at the UNH-IOL".

    "We are proud to expand our partnership with the UNH-IOL," said Dr. Hanan Herzberg,
TraceSpan founder and CEO. "We have received excellent feedback from the UNH-IOL and their
customers about GPON Xpert's value for their testing environment.We are confident that
adding our OLT emulator to the UNH-IOL's GPON test tools will help both organizations
maintain their leadership in the GPON testing market."

    Since its launch in early 2008, GPON Xpert has received excellent market acceptance
and became the standard de-facto GPON testing solution, after being selected by leading
tier-1 telecom operators and manufacturers. In the last few months a number of new
customers have been added to this list, following their evaluation and comparison of
different solutions in the market. GPON Xpert is today the most widely depoloyed GPON
testing solution worldwide, with several tens of customers in North America, Europe, Asia
and the Pacific region.

    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.

   
    Contact: Oded Hadass
    Tel (US): +1-925-558-2278
    Tel (International): +972-9-7462221
    E-mail: info@tracespan.com

Source: TraceSpan Communications