| TOLLGRADE AND TELCHEMY
PARTNER TO DELIVER VOIP PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
TO CABLE TELEPHONY MARKET
TOLLGRADE LICENSES TELCHEMY'S VQMON TECHNOLOGY FOR
CHEETAH IP SERVICE ASSURANCE PRODUCTS
Suwanee, GA, (June 16, 2004)
Tollgrade Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLGD), a leader
in communications test and management solutions for
telecom and cable broadband providers and Telchemy®
Incorporated, the global leader in real-time VoIP
Performance Management software, today announced an
exclusive license for Telchemy’s VQattest™
active call quality monitoring and analysis software,
which incorporates VQmon/SA , for use in Tollgrade’s
Cheetah™ IP Service Assurance Solution. The
arrangement applies to fixed monitoring and test units
in the HFC cable distribution network. By layering
Telchemy’s VQmon technology on the Cheetah DOCSIS®
transponders distributed throughout cable company
networks, Tollgrade’s Cheetah IP solution will
use active test calls that verify cable telephony
system performance and support rapid detection of
VoIP service quality problems.
Tollgrade’s Cheetah product
line provides HFC, DOCSIS, and IP fault/performance
monitoring solutions that enable technicians to significantly
increase their plant operation efficiency. Cheetah
systems are designed to meet all of the cable operator’s
monitoring demands and provide efficient end-to-end
solutions that notify users of equipment failure instantly,
warn of impending service interruptions and verify
equipment status remotely.
VQattest is an active VoIP testing
technology that provides fast, accurate, real-time
analysis of VoIP calls, generating call quality metrics,
including: listening and conversational quality scores
and detailed diagnostic information on the severity
and distribution of packet loss, discards and jitter.
VQmon is the first standards-based VoIP call quality
monitoring software to be widely deployed in the Cable
Telephony industry.
“By embedding VQattest with
VQmon/SA software in their Cheetah solution, Tollgrade
will provide sophisticated, standards-based VoIP fault
and performance management for the rapidly expanding
cable telephony market, said Alan Clark, President
and CEO of Telchemy, Incorporated. “We believe
that our relationship with Tollgrade will result in
widespread deployment of VQmon throughout the Cable
industry and help cable system operators to deliver
reliable telephony services to their customers.”
About Telchemy Incorporated
Telchemy Incorporated is the global leader in VoIP
Performance Management technology with its VQmon and
SQmon™ families of call quality monitoring and
analysis software. Telchemy is the world's first company
to provide voice quality management technology that
considers the effects of time-varying network impairments
and the perceptual effects of time-varying call quality.
Founded in 1999, the company has products deployed
and in use worldwide and markets its technology through
leading networking, test and management product companies.
For more information, visit www.telchemy.com.
About Tollgrade
Tollgrade Communications, Inc. is a full-system provider
of leading hardware and software testing solutions
for the global telecommunications and cable broadband
industries. Tollgrade designs, engineers, markets
and supports test systems, test access and status
monitoring products. The Company, which is headquartered
in the Pittsburgh suburb of Cheswick, Pa., recorded
2003 revenues of $65.1 million. The Company’s
web address is www.tollgrade.com.
Refer to Tollgrade website for
Safe Harbor statements
Cheetah IP is a trademark of
Tollgrade Communications, Inc; Cheetah DOCSIS is a
registered trademark of Tollgrade Communications,
Inc. Telchemy, VQmon, and VQmon/SA are registered
trademarks of Telchemy, Incorporated; VQattest and
SQmon are trademarks of Telchemy, Incorporated.
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