ip.access Selects Epitiro for Femtocell Lab Testing
FemtoLab™ will provide Customer Experience testing of Voice, Video and Data Quality
CARDIFF, UK - Epitiro, the broadband communications authority, announced today that its FemtoLab™ solution has been selected by ip.access Ltd. to provide voice, data and video quality testing of its Oyster 3G™ femtocell solution.
FemtoLab™, part of Epitiro’s Femtocell Test Suite, provides automated, time-synchronised triple-play testing and reporting. Actual customer experience measurements such as voice quality mean opinion score (PESQ-MOS) and data quality metrics (throughput, jitter, latency and packet loss) are provided in real-time within test environments that include GSM, CDMA, CDMA2000, HSPA, TD-SCDMA, WiMAX and LTE.
“Epitiro’s FemtoLab will enable us to ensure that our end-to-end Oyster 3G femtocell system exceeds consumer quality expectations.” said Robert Trott, Head of Product Assurance at ip.access. Epitiro’s FemtoLab™ will perform the concurrent voice, video and data service delivery testing and reporting we require to keep Oyster 3G at the forefront of the femtocell market.
ip.access is the company behind the Oyster 3G™ femtocell, winner of numerous industry awards, including a Global Mobile Award and a World Communications Award. The Oyster 3G dramatically increases 3G cell capacity and coverage; improves quality of experience for the end-user; and drives down costs for the operator.
ip access is a World-leader in femtocell development, “ said JP Curley, CTO, Epitiro. "We’re delighted that ip.access will be using our FemtoLab™ technology to create products that surpass the voice, video and data demands of customers and we look forward to forging a strong relationship."
Learn more about the Femtocell Test Suite by visiting: http://www.epitiro.com
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About ip.access
Based in Cambridge, UK, ip.access ltd (www.ipaccess.com) is a leading manufacturer of cost-effective picocell and femtocell infrastructure solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G. These solutions bring IP and cellular technologies together and solve in-building access problems for mobile operators, opening up new revenue streams while defending existing business.
ip.access is the company behind the Oyster 3G™ femtocell solution, winner of numerous industry awards, including a Global Mobile Award and a World Communications Award. The Oyster 3G dramatically increases 3G cell capacity and coverage; improves quality of experience for the end-user; and drives down costs for the operator.
The ip.access nanoGSM® is the world’s most deployed picocell solution for cellular networks. It provides GSM, GPRS and EDGE coverage and capacity for offices, shops and using satellite backhaul passenger aircraft, ships and in remote rural areas.
With more than 35 live networks around the world and many more being deployed, ip.access is the partner of choice for operators competing in the new converged marketplace.
ip.access counts Scottish Equity Partners, Rothschild Gestion, Intel Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners, ADC, Cisco, Qualcomm and Motorola Ventures among its shareholders.
About Epitiro
Epitiro is the global leader in comparative broadband benchmarking providing customer experience insight to ISPs, cellular and fixed line operators, device manufacturers, media providers, multi-national corporations and government regulators.
Voice, video and internet performance levels are benchmarked via Epitiro’s extensive deployment of ISP-I™ edge-based agents with results available through an on-line database access service or the regularly published Internet Performance Index™ report. The company also provides bespoke test and benchmarking solutions with products such as DataLite™, VocaLite™ and the Femtocell Test Suite™.
Clients such as BT, Vodafone, Orange, Virgin, Telecom New Zealand, Ofcom, Tiscali, KPN and many others benefit from Epitiro’s coverage of fixed and wireless broadband performance.
Founded in 2000, Epitiro is head-quartered in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
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About Epitiro’s Femtocell Test Suite
Femtocell Test Suite covers the key stages from device manufacture, to customer pre-test deployment and ultimately to in-life operation - providing real-time service delivery information at every stage.
FemtoLab™ empowers engineers to critically assess femtocells in a 'live' broadband lab environment via DSL, Cable or Ethernet-based testing. The interrogation features and automated range of test scenarios include functional Voice and HSXPA performance as well as scalability testing.
FemtoLite™ pre-deployment “software as a service” (SaaS) solution analyses a potential customer’s broadband connection from the customer premises allowing operators and ISPs to assess the suitability for a femtocell installation and set expectations accordingly.
ISP-I™ Femto provides operators with in-life monitoring and service quality metrics of any national or international femtocell delivery network, be it their own or a competitor’s. The scope and detail of the metrics are ideal for SLA management and ensuring good customer experience.
Epitiro’s renowned report-generation capabilities are applicable across all products and allow users to quickly and easily see test performance data in a variety of formats. The powerful and flexible report generation, including Web browser access to all reports, provides extensive views of both an operator and competitor performance.
