Fanfare and Spirent announce product integration and partnership
-- Test & Measurement World, 6/23/2008 9:54:00 AM
Fanfare and Spirent announced a partnership that will integrate Fanfare’s test automation solutions with Spirent’s test product line up. The agreement enables customers using both company's solutions to integrate test assets and automate complex system testing. Fanfare, which provides testing solutions to network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers (SPs), and Spirent, a global provider of performance analysis and service management solutions, made the announcement at NXTcomm in Las Vegas.
“By integrating Fanfare’s test case authoring and device configuration capabilities into our test platforms, customers will greatly reduce time-to-test while increasing test coverage—all from a single GUI,” said Neil Anderson, VP of Global Services, Spirent Communications.
The partnership outlines plans for Spirent sales to offer integrated products from both companies, as well as the full suite of Fanfare’s products, to existing and prospective customers seeking a comprehensive solution for their system testing needs.
System testing involves the orchestration of multidevice, multiprotocol and multivendor testing equipment, and has become the standard mode of testing for SPs and NEMs as networks become increasingly complex. The collaboration between SPs and NEMs ensures that new devices work properly with existing network devices before being deployed. Fanfare’s test automation software, iTest, orchestrates system testing by executing simultaneous commands to a multitude of different devices in a network to simulate real-world network testing.
“The market for integrated testing solutions has clearly arrived,” said Tom Ryan, Fanfare CEO. “Customers with large-scale deployments have requested more integration between the hardware and software associated with testing complex devices and systems. Our partnership with Spirent addresses this need, and represents the next phase in evolution of the test automation market.”
Fanfare’s iTest Team is integrated with Spirent TestCenter and other test systems.
Fanfare, www.fanfaresoftware.com, & Spirent Communications, www.spirent.com.
