arca's combined hardware and software platforms are used in the laboratories of major multinational companies throughout the world to develop, analyse, test and demonstrate many types of telecommunications equipment.

arca’s product portfolio spans many technologies and levels of complexity in order to provide telecommunications developers with the tool most appropriate to their testing requirements.

Having established a first-rate reputation in the area of network simulation, arca has recently added bulk call generation and converged network testing to their portfolio of expertise. arca's highly skilled R&D team has developed solutions for ground-breaking technologies such as VoIP and xDSL as well as legacy ISDN, PSTN and V5 protocols. The product line-up includes the emutel ^TM ¦Harmony, emutel ^TM ¦Solo, emutel ^TM ¦Duo, emutel ^TM ¦Symphony, emutel ^TM ¦Edge, emutel ^TM ¦Maestro & emutel ^TM ¦Virtuoso.

Recognised as one of the UK's most respected telecommunications design and development companies, arca has received numerous prestigious awards for innovation and export achievement. At present, arca export more than two-thirds of volume sales to over 30 countries, through a worldwide network of distributors.

Customers include global telecommunications and datacommunications organisations such as 3Com, Alcatel, AT&T, BT, Cisco, Ericsson, Intel, Motorola, Nortel, Panasonic and Samsung.

arca also specialises in providing network access solutions for telecommunications providers with the arcaplex¦Horizon ISDN multiplexer that splits PRI into multiple BRI and POTS enabling providers to instantly expand and provide additional network capacity.

arca's multi-technology test capabilities include:

Network Simulation

Bulk Call Generation

Converged Network Testing

Founded in 1996, Connecticut Technology Products, LLC. is a lean, dynamic organisation dedicated to developing high-quality, time-and-cost-effective solutions for the Telecommunications and Data Communications Markets.

At the heart of CTP is a development team of senior-level engineers with over ten years of collaborative experience that has delivered more than 40 products to market.

CTP’s current product line-up includes the modular ConnTech 2000 model ESC a compact, low-cost yet powerful ESCON ^TM Generator/Analyser/BERT Tester and the ConnTech 2000 Fiber Channel Link and BERT tester (single rate model FC1 or double rate model FC2).

Test capabilities include:

ESCON-S channel Analysis and Test Generation & BERT Test

Point to point physical layer testing of;

• single rate Fiber Channel circuits
• double rate Fiber Channel circuits supporting Storage Area Networks (SAN)

The strategic acquisition of Avantas Networks Corporation (renamed EXFO Protocol Inc.) enabled combined protocol, optical and physical-layer testing in a single platform, the FTB-400 Universal Test System for cost-effective testing of access, metro, DWDM and long-haul networks.

In addition, EXFO purchased most assets of gnubi communications, L.P. (a leading supplier of multi-channel telecom and datacom testing solutions) fully complementing EXFO Protocol’s offering, focused on the testing and quality of service of SONET, SDH, DWDM and datacom networks.

EXFO’s product array now includes the; Network Guardian (G2) and Visual Guardian, Packet Blazer Ethernet Test Module (FTB-8510), Packet Blazer SAN Test Module (FTB-8515), SONET/SDH 10 Gb/s Test Module (FTB-8000), handheld STG Series and EPX series Multi-Channel Testers.

The EXFO Protocol Inc. line-up offers full datacom/telecom test capabilities for:

• DS0, DS1, E1, E3, DS3
• 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
• OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4, OC-48/STM-16, OC-192/STM-64
• SONET/SDH overhead processing for Carriers and system testing application

For nearly two decades, the company has been providing a broad set of enterprise-class software solutions and intelligent instrumentation that empowers IT organizations, simplifies IT network management tasks, and protects IT resources and investments. These solutions help optimize the performance of the world’s most demanding enterprise networks in many industries, including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, and government. During its long history, Network General has trained nearly 100,000 IT professionals and deployed more network and application performance analysis solutions than any other IT management vendor in the world.

Network General™ Corporation is delivering these capabilities today through its industry-leading Sniffer Enterprise Solution architecture. This modular, scalable architecture consists of Sniffer Enterprise Platform, Sniffer Enterprise Intelligence, and Sniffer Enterprise Management – all working together as an integrated solution to provide enterprise-wide network and application performance analysis. These capabilities allow you to quickly identify, monitor, measure, manage, and resolve performance problems and bottlenecks — before they impact the performance of the business. As a result, the Sniffer Enterprise Solution helps to empower IT organizations, simplify network management tasks, and protect the extended value and life of IT assets.

Radcom test capabilities include:

• ATM Bit Error Rate Testing
• ATM Conformance Testing.
• ATM PNNI Simulation Conformance Test
• ATM Traffic Generation and Analysis.
• Encapsulation Protocol Analysis
• Frame Analysis and Simulation
• Frame Relay Analysis and Simulation
• Gigabit Ethernet
• H.323/SIP Call Generation
• Internet Simulation
• Internetworking LAN/WAN/ATM Analysis.
• ISDN Analysis and Simulation
• Jitter Analysis
• LAN Software Analysis
• Latency and Loss Measurement
• Network Performance Monitoring and Analysis
• Transmission and Datacom. Protocol Analysis
• X.25 Analysis and Simulation
• VoIP QoS and Performance Management