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23 February 2004 - Actix, the global provider of wireless
network performance engineering software, has acquired
ComOpt, a leading provider of automated wireless optimization
solutions. The combined products of Actix and ComOpt
represent the wireless industry’s only end-to-end,
vendor independent,
performance engineering solutions set. For all major
wireless technologies, including 3G, they
address every aspect of performance engineering from
systems verification to optimization and
troubleshooting, using drive test, protocol and predicted
data, across voice and multi-media
services.
This acquisition – which brings together two of
the leading vendor independent performance
software specialists - is a significant development
for the wireless industry. Performance
engineering is a key part of the operator workflow,
where operators are seeking to maximize the
return on existing investment, rapidly deploy new services,
maximize the use of available spectrum
and bridge the customer experience gap. Performance
engineering is complementary to OSS but
where performance management hides engineering detail
through aggregation, limiting the ability
of engineers to 'drill down' and fix specific problems,
performance engineering solutions facilitate
analysis and decision making to improve the customer
experience of 3G services. This enables
operators to proactively make changes based on a detailed
understanding of the network and
services.
Commenting on the acquisition, Rob Dobson, Actix CEO
said: “Actix and ComOpt have created a
major new force offering intelligent performance engineering
solutions for wireless focused on the
key business challenges facing operators today –
squeezing more out of existing networks and
realizing service revenues from new technology networks.
Like Actix, ComOpt is profitable and
growing fast and both management teams are convinced
that the synergies will make us both even
stronger. Combined, our solutions will enable operators
to master the interaction of highly complexnew technologies,
allowing them to accelerate the rollout of new revenue-generating
services and
provide a high quality service to their customers.”
Joachim Samuelsson, ComOpt Managing Director, added:
“This move will not only accelerate our
growth plans, through synergies with Actix’ sales,
marketing and global distribution resources, but
also provide an excellent product fit. ComOpt’s
automatic optimization solutions are already
established market leaders and widely regarded as the
best in class. Together, our products
effectively complete the picture for operators seeking
an intelligent performance engineering
solution portfolio that will help them to achieve performance
targets right across today’s network
technologies through to next generation service offerings.”
Both Actix and ComOpt have maintained strong and profitable
growth throughout recent periods of
industry-wide reductions in capital expenditure. Together
the companies now have over 200
operators and the vast majority of wireless systems
vendors as customers, together with some
5000 individual users. Both companies have offices in
the UK/Europe, the US, and Asia.
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