Brix Networks Chooses Ditech Networks' EXi Technology to Complement Service Assurance Solutions
March 31 2008 - 8:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Brix Is The Latest Organization To Become Part Of Ditech's EXi
Everywhere Partner Program LAS VEGAS, March 31
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Ditech Networks (NASDAQ: DITC), a leading
provider of voice quality solutions to the world's communications
industry, today announced, at CTIA Wireless 2008, that Brix
Networks, a global provider of open and extensible converged
service assurance solutions, will integrate Ditech's voice quality
measurement technology into its products that manage and monitor
the quality of VoIP networks. Brix is the latest organization to
become part of Ditech's EXi Everywhere Partner Program, which makes
Ditech's voice quality measurement technology available to the
communications industry. Brix will integrate Ditech's Experience
Intelligence (EXi) technology into its BrixCall advanced call
signaling analysis and media correlation application. Brix products
gather intelligence from network elements and endpoint devices to
create a comprehensive view of performance and quality for
revenue-generating services. The addition of EXi enables Brix to
extend these capabilities to provide a view of how the subscriber
call experience is impacted by a variety of voice quality
impairments, such as background noise, echo, and mismatched speech
levels. Separately, Brix also announced today that it will
integrate EXi technology into the company's BrixCall application.
"Brix Networks is aggressively leading the effort to promulgate an
open, standards-based approach to service assurance," said John
Burnham, vice president of marketing at Brix Networks. "Making EXi
and the accurate measurement of voice quality broadly available to
the communications industry fits well with this goal." EXi has been
used to measure real-time voice quality in both TDM and IP
networks. EXi quantifies the impact of voice quality impairments
caused by the places where people make calls, codec impairments,
packet loss, and by the wide variety of mobile devices like phones
and headsets. However, unlike many network test solutions that
focus on measuring network transmission quality, EXi is fully
capable of measuring and scoring the actual speech quality
experienced by subscribers in real-time, on every call in a
network. Carriers can use this information, along with information
from other systems, to identify and address the impact of
substandard voice quality on churn, customer satisfaction,
subscriber additions, marketing programs and network design. EXi
has been utilized in the industry as a complement to existing test
and measurement solutions. Brix products will be able to capture
voice quality impairments that originate from the subscriber's
environment, and add that view to impairments originating in the
network, to provide its customers a comprehensive picture of actual
voice quality that is experienced by subscribers. Information from
EXi about signal, noise, echo and packet loss can be input into the
ITU G.107 E Model, which fits well with Brix's commitment to open
standards. "Brix Networks has a long-standing commitment to
standards and the delivery of open solutions to its customers,"
said Karl Brown, vice president of marketing at Ditech Networks.
"As part of Ditech's EXi Everywhere Partner Program, Brix can bring
to its customers an important aspect of voice quality that can help
shape a service provider's understanding of their voice service."
Ditech's EXi Everywhere Partner Program makes the company's EXi
technology available to the communications industry. In addition to
deploying EXi on its own voice quality platforms, Ditech is making
multi-platform support available as part of its EXi Everywhere
Partner Program, including mobile handset and headset
manufacturers, communications providers, network equipment vendors,
test and measurement companies, standards organizations, consulting
firms and other solutions providers. About Ditech Networks Ditech
Networks is shaping the future of voice quality through continuous
innovation and leadership for the world's communications companies.
Ditech's voice quality solutions are deployed in wireless and
wireline networks to optimize the call experience. By delivering
consistent, dependable voice quality, Ditech's products help global
communications companies meet the multiple challenges of service
differentiation, network expansion and call capacity. Ditech's
customers include Verizon, Sprint/Nextel, Orascom Telecom,
AT&T, China Unicom, Global Crossing and West Corporation.
Ditech Networks is headquartered in Mountain View, California. For
more information, visit http://www.ditechnetworks.com/. About Brix
Networks Brix Networks is a global provider of open and extensible
converged service assurance solutions that allow the world's
largest service providers and enterprises to offer reliable and
high-quality experiences in voice, video, data, and mobile services
to their customers, partners, and employees. The Chelmsford, Mass.,
U.S.A.-based company brings a proven heritage of IP expertise
unique to the service assurance marketplace, and collaborates
closely with its customers and partners to assure the delivery of
any IP-based service, over any network, to any endpoint. For more
information, visit http://www.brixnet.com/. Forward Looking
Statement This press release contains forward-looking statements
regarding Ditech Networks' expectations of the benefits the global
communications industry will receive using Ditech's EXi and VQA
solutions, and in being a part of Ditech's EXi Everywhere Partner
Program. Actual results could differ materially as a result of
unanticipated factors and events, including the risk that Ditech
Networks' EXi and VQA solutions may exhibit unforeseen technical
problems that will preclude those benefits from being utilized, as
well as those detailed in the "Future Growth and Operating Results
Subject to Risk" in Part I, Item 2 of Ditech Networks' Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended Jan. 31, 2008 (filed
March 11, 2008, with the Securities and Exchange Commission).
Ditech Networks, Experience Intelligence and Voice Quality
Assurance are trademarks or registered trademarks of Ditech
Networks, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. DATASOURCE: Ditech Networks CONTACT: Press, Rob
Adler, +1-415-984-1970 ext. 104, or Investors, Bill Tamblyn,
+1-650-623-1309, both of Ditech Networks Web site:
http://www.ditechnetworks.com/ http://www.brixnet.com/
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