QUEBEC CITY, May 16, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ:
EXFO) (TSX: EXF), the network test, monitoring and analytics
experts, today launched Universal Virtual Sync, a software-based
solution enabling communications service providers (CSPs) to
accurately and cost-effectively measure network latency (delay).
This real-time visibility into latency behavior enables operators
to deliver outstanding services, anytime and instantly for
applications like video, VoIP and interactive services, and is
critical for assuring C-RAN, 5G and NFV's sub-millisecond latency
requirements.
Delay is frustrating for subscribers using interactive,
real-time applications like streaming and gaming, and they will
change providers if they aren't getting the quality of experience
they expect. Delay is also difficult to manage and varies greatly
depending on whether the IP traffic is going in an upstream or
downstream direction. As a result, CSPs must be able to reliably
measure unidirectional latency in order to identify the direction
of degradations and the location of excessive or uncontrolled
delay.
"This ability to measure one-way delay in a simple,
cost-effective manner, without needing either expensive external
clocking or GPS, seems critical to measuring network latency more
accurately," said Alan Breznick,
Cable/Video Practice Leader for Light Reading. "Such an approach
potentially offers a far superior way of ensuring the best possible
subscriber experience."
"Customers are demanding more bandwidth, better coverage and
predictable service performance. To satisfy those demands, CSPs
need a sound strategy concerning network latency management," said
Claudio Mazzuca, EXFO's
Vice-President Systems and Services. "EXFO's standards-compliant
measurement algorithm is simple to deploy. There is no need for
hardware to install, maintain or upgrade, which also delivers CAPEX
and OPEX savings."
EXFO will be demonstrating this new feature during the Big
Communications Event (BCE), May 16 to
17 in Austin, Texas. Book a
meeting or find out more about our executive team's speaking
engagements, including a Video Track session entitled "4K/UHD and
VR: Making fat video fit."
About EXFO
EXFO develops smarter network test,
monitoring and analytics solutions for the world's leading
communications service providers, network equipment manufacturers
and web-scale companies. Since 1985, we've worked side by side with
our clients in the lab, field, data center, boardroom and beyond to
pioneer essential technology and methods for each phase of the
network lifecycle. Our portfolio of test orchestration and
real-time 3D analytics solutions turn complex into simple and
deliver business-critical insights from the network, service and
subscriber dimensions. Most importantly, we help our clients
flourish in a rapidly transforming industry where "good enough"
testing and data analytics just isn't good enough anymore—it never
was for us, anyway. For more information, visit EXFO.com and follow
us on the EXFO Blog.
White paper:
http://explore.exfo.com/Whitepaper076-One-waydelayDOSASAI_LandingPage.html
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