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Ixia (News - Alert) and its partners reportedly have announced the formation of the TesLA Alliance, a group that aims to provide an open, multivendor automation framework allowing members to offer integrated IP test automation solutions.

 

The founding TesLA members include APCON, Codenomicon (News - Alert), Fanfare, Ixia, Mu Dynamics, QualiSystems and Shunra.

 

By building and marketing compatible solutions, the Alliance members say they’ll enable interoperation between their respective solutions in customer quality assurance labs. Ixia said that TesLA aims to provide customers a framework and set of tools to raise productivity, improve return on investment and accelerate time to market.

 

According to Atul Bhatnagar, president and chief executive officer of Ixia, the company and its partners share a common vision for TesLA to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of IP service and network testing to help customers deliver superior quality products and gain accelerated time to market advantages.

 

Ixia says that more intelligent systems are introduced by the IP networking industry offering a wide array of converged services. With an increase in network complexity and shortening of product life cycles, vendors and service providers are focused on improving operational efficiency while raising quality.

 

As a typical networking lab deployment can contain test equipment from multiple, disparate vendors, there’s a need for integration and interoperability among the various tools. IP test automation has taken center stage, as it is the only way quality can be assured after product upgrades, network modifications and software patches, Ixia says.

 

Richard Rauch, president and chief executive officer of APCON, said that the elimination of manual patching has helped his company’s customers realize measureable increases in hardware utilization and reductions in product time to market. Collaborating with the TesLA Alliance, APCON looks forward to providing unattended lab testing through complete automation of device, test tool and topology reconfigurations, Rauch says.

 

Tom Ryan, chief executive officer of Fanfare (News - Alert), said that together the alliance members will create a versatile automation platform that increases the overall value for their joint customers through collaborative, complementary innovations in their products.

 

“This new alliance is a response to market demand for easy and actionable performance testing that results in faster deployment and a better user experience for joint customers,” stated Thomas Charlton, chief executive officer of Shunra (News - Alert) Software.