ISLANDIA, N.Y., Jan. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CA Technologies
(Nasdaq: CA) today announced it has acquired privately-held
Torokina Networks, a leader in delivering state-of-the-art service
assurance management solutions to 3G, 4G and Long Term Evolution
(LTE) communications service providers (CSPs) worldwide. The
acquisition enables CA Technologies to expand the support of its
service assurance portfolio for the advanced network devices and
equipment leveraged by CSPs for their rapidly-growing mobile voice
and data environments.
"With billions of dollars at stake, CSPs understand that meeting
customer expectations is the top priority," said Christopher Cook, general manager, Service
Assurance, CA Technologies. "At the same time, they want to ensure
optimal performance of their internal networks. Combining the
technology and expertise from Torokina with our existing service
assurance solutions, CA Technologies can now offer 'one-stop
shopping' for CSPs to help them ensure optimized services and
network availability to customers and internal users."
Torokina and CA Technologies have previously worked together
with CSPs to solve these market requirements. A combined service
assurance solution is available today based on the CA
Infrastructure Management portfolio and the Torokina product. CA
Technologies has also enhanced its deployment team with
professional services team members from Torokina who bring
significant experience and expertise in working with the
complexities of the modern CSP customer environments.
"The challenge with a majority of performance and fault
management tools is that they are limited in their out-of-the-box
capability and manage only part of the total network," said
Dilshan Perera, principal systems
architect at TelstraClear, New
Zealand, a customer of Torokina. "Making a performance
and fault management solution work end-to-end, across both IP and
non-IP networks, requires significant investment in both cost and
timeframes. The CA Technologies-Torokina value proposition is
to overcome this challenge within a single solution set,
taking away the complexities by leveraging these complementary
technologies."
Using one solution to manage both customer-facing service
networks and internal IT operations helps CSPs reduce cost and
improve efficiency.
"Increased consumer and business demand for mobile email, video,
social networking and other data-intensive services are driving a
new level of investment by CSPs in 3G/4G/LTE networks that often
presents unique management challenges," said Elisabeth Rainge, program director, Network
Software, IDC. "At the same time, these companies are under
pressure to merge customer facing networks with internal IT to be
more efficient and justify expenditures. Acquisitions such as this
by CA Technologies supports their strategy to offer one solution
that supports the internal and external performance management
needs of CSPs."
The acquisition builds on CA Technologies service assurance
strategy to address customer requirements in three key areas,
application performance management (APM), infrastructure management
(IM), and service operations management.
"CSPs face a growing challenge to manage the new gear being
added to meet the explosion in demand for mobile broadband
services," said Chris Gibbs,
formerly the vice president of worldwide sales and operations at
Torokina Networks, and now a vice president of solution sales for
CA Technologies. "Already a success with customers, the CA
Technologies service assurance portfolio combined with the Torokina
technology and professional services expertise provides the ability
for CSPs to proactively manage end-to-end their investments in
3G/4G and LTE infrastructures while reducing the time to
value."
Torokina Networks' operations and employees, based in
Sydney, Australia, are now part of
the Service Assurance business at CA Technologies.
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