QUEBEC CITY, CANADA, NovemEXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. 'Our alliance strengthens both companies' ability to provide innovative, high-value test solutions to the service providers that ADC and EXFO have independently supported for many years.This new software suite further enhances the user experience as it leverages the intuitive features of the AXS-200/850 handheld test set, which intoperates with EXFO's complete datacom portfolio. 'With the combined ADC and EXFO solution, service providers no longer need to send a field technician to a customer site to troubleshoot and resolve Ethernet and service performance problems which may impact Service Level Agreements,' said Benoit Fleury, vice president of Product Management, Protocol Layer for EXFO. Capabilities include the full range of RFC-2544 performance tests (burst, throughput, latency), EXFO's EtherBERT(TM) error testing, multiple-stream traffic analysis, and specific test functions for delay-sensitive applications such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), and storage area network applications. Once a link is in loopback mode, the comprehensive functionality of the PacketBlazer can be used to test the connection at 10/100 Mbps, or GigE line-rate. The Ethernet NIU loopback functionality is fully supported by EXFO's Packet Blazer Gigabit Ethernet test modules, available in portable and rack mounted formats.

In addition, the Ethernet NIU is capable of providing a service provider with remote alarm and performance data to assist in proactively managing their customer demarcation point. Installed inline at the customer premises, the ADC Ethernet NIU can be activated to re-route traffic back to the originating IP address, permitting testing of an Ethernet link from a remote location such as a central office. By combining ADC's new Ethernet Network Interface Unit (NIU) with EXFO's Packet Blazer Gigabit Ethernet testers, service providers can remotely troubleshoot networks, customer access lines and related services, and assure customer service level agreements (SLAs). (NASDAQ:EXFO - News TSX:EXF.SV, today announced an alliance to provide an integrated remote Ethernet testing solution for service providers operating metro Ethernet networks. MINNEAPOLIS and QUEBEC CITY - ADC (NASDAQ:ADCT - News, - News) and EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc.

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