Telecom Lead Europe: NetScout Systems has acquired
technology and assets associated with the intelligent Customer Service
Assurance (iCSA) product line from Accanto Systems.
Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Accanto Systems OY is
a provider of service assurance products for telecommunications service
providers.
The technology acquired is consistent with our
packet-flow strategy and brings important voice service monitoring capabilities
that will strengthen our unified service delivery management strategy and
accelerate our time to market to support emerging technologies like VoLTE,”
said Anil Singhal, president and CEO of NetScout.
The acquisition of voice assurance technology from
Accanto Systems will extend the nGenius Service Assurance Solution’s support
for Next Generation Network (NGN) voice services, including VoIP and VoLTE.
Furthermore, the acquisition will bring addition of
support for legacy circuit switched voice environments including Signaling
System 7 (SS7) and SIGTRAN.
The acquisition will enable NetScout to address a broader
range of voice assurance requirements for both NGN and legacy deployments for
mobile, wireline and cable operators.
The acquired technology from Accanto Systems’ iCSA
product line includes all of the Pantera hardware probes, along with middleware
and session analysis applications.
The acquired technology will extend the nGenius Service
Assurance Solution’s control plane and data plane monitoring capabilities to
boost support for NGN voice services.
With the acquisition, an accomplished team of engineers
from Accanto Systems’ Modena location will transfer to NetScout. NetScout has
also established a development center in the Modena region of Italy.
