Telecom T&M (test and measurement) vendor EXFO has acquired the assets of ByteSphere, a global IT management and network monitoring solutions provider.
EXFO said the strategic acquisition of ByteSphere will assist the company to enhance its solutions offering in service assurance and network performance management, especially in critical areas like small cells, wireless backhaul and metro Ethernet.
The company did not share financial details.
Germain Lamonde, chairman, president and CEO of EXFO, said: “ByteSphere’s technology adds expanded network visibility to EXFO’s highly acclaimed active IP/Ethernet service assurance solutions, which will allow customers to dramatically streamline network operations and improve overall network quality.”
The acquisition is aimed at enhancing EXFO’s capabilities in network performance management for infrastructure monitoring through scalable device and network element polling.
EXFO said ByteSphere’s solutions feature techniques for infrastructure performance management, including network element polling and fault management. ByteSphere’s products and tools are used by some of the world’s largest tier-1 network operators and Fortune Global 500 companies.
EXFO has acquired assets and IP rights of ByteSphere as a complement to its BrixWorx service assurance solutions, creating a combination of network and service performance monitoring for mobile and fixed telecommunications.
The company said the combination of these capabilities provides correlation between network element performance metrics and probe-based service performance metrics, positioning EXFO to drive the value of this raw data into correlated and actionable events for customers through analytics and visualization.
