CA Technologies Acquires Torokina Networks, Expands Support for Fast Growing Communications Service Provider Market
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CSPs Can Now Manage Internal and Customer Facing Networks with One Service Assurance Management Solution
ISLANDIA, N.Y., Jan. 25, 2011 - 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 andinternal 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.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments - from mainframe and distributed, to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments and enables customers to deliver more flexible IT services. CA Technologies innovative products and services provide the insight and control essential for IT organizations to power business agility. The majority of the Global Fortune 500 relies on CA Technologies to manage evolving IT ecosystems. For additional information, visit CA Technologies at www.ca.com.
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Michael Zeglin
Corporate Communications
Phone: +1 650 298-3117
michael.zeglin@ca.com
