Aricent is a strategic business unit of the Aricent Group. The Aricent Group is a global innovation and technology services company that helps clients imagine, commercialize, and evolve products and services for the connected world. Bringing together the communications technology expertise of Aricent with the creative vision and user experience prowess of frog, the Aricent Group provides a unique portfolio of innovation capabilities that seamlessly combines consumer insights, strategy, design, software engineering, and systems integration. The client base includes communications service providers, equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, device makers, and many other Fortune 500 brands. The company’s investors are Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, Delta Partners, and The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board.

Aricent’s Testing Service

Aricent offers a comprehensive testing service portfolio through a dedicated testing practice, which includes more than 1,800 test experts. Aricent also offers testing service as “Testing as a Service” (TaaS) model, which is based on strong partnerships with its customers and proven testing expertise. Aricent’s testing service portfolio includes:

• LTE eNodeB and EPC Testing

• 2G/3G Wireless Testing

• IP Networking, Switching/Routing, Triple Play, Data Centers, and VoIP/IMS Testing

• Live 3G network lab for Interoperability Testing (IOT) in partnership with Vodafone UK

Bluetest AB is the leading provider of reverberation test systems to verify wireless devices and small antennas. The patented technology enables the user to perform MIMO OTA (Over The Air) tests on for example LTE devices in an isotropic multipath environment. Bluetest offers measurements options for all cellular standards and many other wireless communication protocols. Easy and fast maintenance, calibration, and measurement setup gives the user the opportunity to minimize its time-to-market. OTA tests like TRP, TIS and TPUT (throughput) can be performed faster than any other existing technology. Bluetest’s customer base consists of the largest mobile phone manufacturers, leading operators and other vendors of small antennas and wireless devices.

CALIENT Technologies is the global leader in pure photonic Optical Circuit Switching with systems that enable dynamic optical layer optimization in test automation and next generation data centers. CALIENT’s 3D MEMS switches allow operators to dramatically improve utilization rates of both the dedicated devices under test and test equipment. Test automation at the physical layer also enables test case serialization which dramatically lowers test times and operational costs. CALIENT’s optical circuit switch provides the operator a rapid and non-disruptive method of implementing DevOps strategies. The company designs and manufactures its systems using the state of art MEMS fabrication equipment at its corporate headquarters in Santa Barbara, California.

Calnex designs, produces and markets test instrumentation for network synchronization and network emulation. Our test equipment provides test solutions for the world's networks. We have over a decade of experience in the test and measurement industry, producing high-end solutions that are as innovative as they are effective.

To date, Calnex has shipped products to over 350 customers in over 65 countries around the world. Calnex is headquartered in Linlithgow, Scotland with an organization spanning the globe. Calnex was named the 2015 winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade, the UK’s highest accolade for business success.

DG Technologies (DG) has specialized for more than a quarter century in Vehicle Network Solutions, internationally providing quality products, education, consulting, and custom solutions for in-vehicle networks. These standards-based vehicle network solutions include High Speed CAN/J1939, CAN FD, J1708/J1587, LIN, ISO9141, FlexRay and more! Design, diagnose, reprogram, and capture/analyze data on today's vehicle networks.

EMITE is the leading OTA reverberation chamber test system provider for research, development, performance, compliance and pre-compliance testing of any 2G to 4G standards and pre-standards worldwide, including LTE-A and WiFi 802.11/abgnac. EMITE multi-cavity multi-sourced patented solutions offer the most realistic fading environment for testing all existing cellular and Wi-Fi Technologies to date. EMITE test systems represent the most advanced, easiest, fastest, modular, and versatile products in the market, with unique features for the end-user that help reduce testing costs such as the overnight unsupervised testing mode, the parallel DUT testing mode, or the built-in RF turnkey switch module. While co-operating with major standardization bodies, EMITE test system are present in carriers, OEMs, test labs and research units worldwide, providing access to multiple markets for IoT/SISO/MIMO/Wearables/M2M/EMC/WiFi/Bluetooth OTA solutions in Signalling and Non Signalling testing modes.

ETS-Lindgren is well known for providing key technical contributions to the earliest wireless standards issued by CTIA—the Wireless Association® and The WiMAX Forum®. You’ll find this expertise in our full range of wireless test systems for Over-the-Air (OTA) Radiated Performance Tests (RPT) for all mobile protocols including LTE and Assisted GPS (A-GPS) mobile device test applications. Our AMS-8700 MIMO OTA test system provides adjustable RF environment simulation for testing multiple antenna technologies. ETS-Lindgren is noted for numerous industry firsts, including the development and accreditation of the first CTIA Authorized Test Lab (CATL). In addition to the design and installation of turnkey wireless test systems, we offer a full range of services, including pre- and full certification test services using our in house CATL, product design review and consultation.

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service provider, and government organizations around the world. Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the borderless network-today and into the future. Only the Fortinet Security Fabric architecture can deliver security features without compromise to address the most critical security challenges, whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments. Fortinet ranks #1 in the most security appliances shipped worldwide and more than 385,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

NETSCOUT delivers a family of products that enable customers to improve the efficiency, speed, and performance of their test labs. Our switches deliver highly scalable, and flexible solutions. They enable customers to increase the utilization of existing tools and devices under test, reduce the time required to set up and test, decrease the need for new tools, and improve overall lab performance.

Our Test Optimization switch offerings include:

• HS Series for Test Lab Automation

  • delivers speeds up to 100GbE, and supports multiple media types – including Multimode and Single Mode, and DAC and AOC – all in a single chassis that integrates seamlessly into your test environment

• nGenius 3900 Series for Test Lab Automation

  • offers an efficient platform that enables customers to optimize their test lab operations by combining Layer 1 matrix switching with blade-based options for maximum flexibility

• OS Series for Test Lab Automation

  • provides an all-optical Single Mode solution, with options for 96 or 192 duplex ports, to deliver data-rate and protocol transparency with near-zero latency for time sensitive applications

An efficient test lab uses Layer 1 switching at its core to allow for rapid and automated topology changes without ever touching a cable. NETSCOUT solutions build upon that Layer 1 connectivity to deliver higher level features like media conversion and tapping, enabling you to truly optimize your test lab.

As part of the Microwave Vision Group, SATIMO delivers the widest range of innovative measurement solutions for antenna, RCS and radome testing, and wireless device certification.

Our products include full turn-key systems, MV-Scan™ multi-probe arrays, anechoic chambers, antennas and probes, measurement software, positioning equipment, and RF absorbers. Our strength comes from our broad product portfolio, worldwide presence, and integrated project management.

Tech Mahindra is part of the US $14.4 billion Mahindra Group, in partnership with British Telecommunications plc (BT). Focused primarily on the telecommunications industry, Tech Mahindra is a leading global systems integrator and business transformation consulting organization. Tech Mahindra’s capabilities spread across a broad spectrum, including BSS, OSS, Network Design & Engineering, Product Engineering, Next Generation Networks, Mobility Solutions, Security Consulting and Testing. Tech Mahindra has been providing IT & engineering services to telecom service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers for over 25 years. Leveraging its vast telecom domain experience in testing and test automation, Tech Mahindra offers professional services on Spirent Test Automation platforms, including consulting, designing & implementing end-to-end test automation solutions.

Wind River®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel® Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC), is a global leader in delivering software for the Internet of Things. The company has been pioneering computing inside embedded devices since 1981, and its technology is found in more than 2 billion products. Wind River offers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for addressing the system-level challenges and opportunities of IoT that is backed by world-class global professional services, award-winning customer support, and a broad partner ecosystem. Wind River delivers the software and expertise that enable the innovation and deployment of safe, secure, and reliable intelligent systems.