Frost & Sullivan Honors Empirix for Innovation in the IMS Testing and Monitoring Markets
Frost & Sullivan recognizes Empirix Inc. with the 2009 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation Innovation.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - October 05, 2009 - Based on its recent analysis of the world IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) test and monitoring equipment market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Empirix Inc. with the 2009 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Differentiation Innovation. The company, which covers multiservice segments, leads the market due to its ability to meet every customer’s quality assurance needs with a complete product portfolio, as well as excellent infrastructure support – research & development (R&D), manufacturing, sales and service support and focus on innovation.
Empirix’s quality assurance solutions aid in verifying interoperability of both IMS elements and the PSTN with a variety of end-user devices deployed through different core infrastructure elements. It’s network-wide monitoring and analysis tools help to quickly diagnose and fix interoperability issues. Empirix’s solutions help customers avoid the high cost of installing and running numerous actual network elements from various vendors and are capable of ensuring necessary performance testing, in addition to providing programming flexibility and functionality test capabilities. The Hammer Test EngineTM technology, established in the early 1990s, forms the backbone of the company's offerings.
The Hammer family of products includes feature testing, load testing, installation and service monitoring, which provide complete visualization into real-time service quality in IMS networks. Hammer solutions reproduces realistic user behavior on networks and applications aiding in service assurance in both an out-of-service testing and in-service monitoring scenario. Flexibility, scalability, and ease-of-use make Hammer solutions the most preferred in the market. Empirix’s focus on R&D has enabled constant upgrades to meet the evolving standard in IMS technology. As a result, Empirix was among the top in the voice over IP (VoIP) test market in 2008.
“Operating in a challenging market, including enormous complexity, ambiguous standards, multi-vendor and network interoperability and increasing customer expectations, Empirix has been able to address these issues with solutions that have been deployed in many network infrastructure vendors and service providers over the past few years,” says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Sivakumar Narayanaswamy. “Integral to its product line is its wide range of variants, which are also customized to meet the different needs of customers in this market.”
Hammer XMS™, first introduced in 2004, is designed to accommodate any next generation service and is flexible for future expansion as new capabilities of IMS technology give birth to next generation services and existing deployments mature. In September 2008, Empirix launched Hammer XMS 2.0, the most comprehensive solution for monitoring VoIP in its class offering users significantly greater scalability, improved diagnostics and presentation of complex call flows and better service quality assessment.
Similarly, the recently introduced Hammer Edge™, is the only tool in its class that can emulate the realistic behavior of users, devices and network topology configurations; test realistic security scenarios; and predict user experience of data, video and voice applications, as an aggregate, in the pre-deployment phase. The next generation in quality assurance, Hammer Edge gives organizations the ability to truly assure the quality of their multiservice networks and services, while reducing time-to-market, increasing service revenues, and improving test productivity.
Overall, flexibility and customization offered in terms of products and service offerings has enabled Empirix’s market share to grow. More importantly, the company has demonstrated the ability to develop advanced and innovative products in this market space. For all the aforesaid reasons, in recognition of its achievements, Frost & Sullivan presents Empirix with the 2009 Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Innovation Award in the world IMS test and monitoring equipment market.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated the ability to develop and advance products with more innovative capabilities than competing vendors and products. The award recognizes the company’s successful adoption of new or existing technology that has become a part of its well-designed product family. Such innovation is expected to significantly contribute to the industry in terms of product performance and degree/rate of technical change.
Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry.
About Empirix Inc.
Empirix is the leading provider of service quality assurance solutions for new IP communications. Since 1992, Empirix has led the market in innovation and expertise for IP communications management. Its widely acclaimed Hammer Test Engine™, with more than 30 patents, is the acknowledged global standard for validating the quality of IP networks, systems and applications. The world’s largest wireless and wireline operators, equipment manufacturers, and enterprise contact centers depend on Empirix’s solutions to maintain the quality of the user experience for business-critical voice, data, video and mobile services. With Empirix, customers can increase revenues, reduce customer churn and cut support costs. Empirix is privately held and headquartered in Bedford, MA. For further information, please visit www.empirix.com
Empirix, Hammer Test Engine, Hammer XMS, and Hammer Edge are trademarks of Empirix Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Jake Wengroff
210.247.3806
jake.wengroff@frost.com
For Empirix:
Payal Cudia
Schwartz Communications
781-684-0770
empirix@schwartz-pr.com
