SUNNYVALE, California and MANSFIELD, Massachusetts, February 23 /PRNewswire/ --

- Exclusive NEM Technology Partnership Delivers Most Advanced Video Quality Test Suite Available

Spirent Communications plc (http://www.spirent.com) (LSE: SPT), the global leader in network testing and IneoQuest Technologies, Inc. (http://www.ineoquest.com), the leading global supplier video quality solutions today announced that they have entered into a technology agreement. This exclusive global partnership will offer the industry's only end-to-end video quality test suite that allows network equipment manufactures (NEMs) to ensure that their solutions provide the highest possible Quality of Experience (QoE).

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Broadcast and streaming video services over both traditional cable and satellite networks, and over the Internet through services such as YouTube, Hulu, and Netflix, present complex quality issues that can severely impact QoE, costing service providers billions of dollars in operational expenses, said Jeff Heynen, directing analyst, Broadband and Video at Infonetics Research. As a result, service providers are demanding that NEMs thoroughly test products to accommodate the unique and sensitive requirements of video delivery.

The Spirent/IneoQuest technology partnership will specifically help NEMs to effectively address IP network scalability and reliability issues related to video delivery. Together, the companies will deliver the most innovative and comprehensive test solution that enables equipment manufacturers to improve the quality of their Triple Play solutions. Spirent's market-leading deep and rich network testing suite when combined with the power of IneoQuest's bulk, live video test and analysis solutions, covers the entire Triple Play ecosystem, including encoders, multiplexers, routers, switches and set-top boxes.

Our customers depend on Spirent to help ensure that the multi-play networks and multi-technology platforms of tomorrow deliver the QoE which service providers demand today, said William Burns, CEO of Spirent Communications plc. This technology partnership with IneoQuest builds on the Spirent tradition of product innovation and service excellence as it enables us to offer equipment manufacturers the only end-to-end solution that brings realistic video quality testing into the lab.

IneoQuest is committed to helping video service providers improve the reliability of their video systems, said Marc Todd, president and CEO of IneoQuest. Our solutions deliver monitoring of live video in deployed systems while providing realistic video test and measurement metrics to equipment manufacturers, enabling them to evaluate the performance of network elements and systems before deployment. The combined Spirent and IneoQuest solution delivers the most comprehensive product suite for testing and measuring Triple Play deployments available.

Spirent is the preferred testing partner of Triple Play/IPTV equipment manufacturers and service providers worldwide. IneoQuest serves customers in the cable, telecom and satellite markets in several countries and is a member of the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) (http://www.ineoquest.com/press-release/ineoquest-technologies-selected-m... soft-mediaroom-iptv-ecosystem) partner ecosystem. The global partnership increases the depth and the reach of both companies to serve the equipment manufacturer market.

About Spirent Communications plc

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About IneoQuest

IneoQuest Technologies, Inc., providers of the industry's first and only unified business solution that audits, monitors, analyzes and troubleshoots digital video. IneoQuest has been serving customers in the telephony, cable, broadcast and network equipment industries since 2001 and is headquartered in Mansfield, Massachusetts. IneoQuest has sales operations in the US, Asia, European and Latin regions. More information is available at www.IneoQuest.com.

Sailaja Tennati, Spirent Communications, +1-770-432-3225, sailaja.tennati@spirent.com, or Joline Biancavilla, BridgeView Marketing (for IneoQuest), +1-603-978-4491, Joline@bridgeviewmarketing.com; Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080909/CLTU016LOGO