SAPPHIRE INFOTECH Announces Licensing of TestSmart to Ixia

August 06, 2007

FREMONT, CA – 8/14/2006, Sapphire InfoTech announced that it has licensed its TestSmart intellectual property to Ixia, a leading provider of performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services.  

“Ixia and Sapphire InfoTech share in the vision to help customers optimize the quality and performance of their network systems and services deployment,” said Dinesh Goradia, president of Sapphire InfoTech.  “We are committed to helping our mutual customers streamline their efforts and increase efficiency as they build and optimize mission-critical networks, network applications and services.”

TestSmart allows customers a higher level of automated testing of networked devices both as stand-alone configurations and as networked systems.  Designed to help test and certify networks that were created with multiple products from different vendors, TestSmart is an easy-to-use tool that enables test engineers to automate their testing.  The TestSmart product works readily with HP Quality Center software products to manage larger requirements tracking and testing process.  TestSmart is the only product providing CLI (Command Line Interface) capabilities that are integrated with HP Quality Center software.  Sapphire InfoTech will continue to develop TestSmart’s capabilities both for testing and network management applications.

“Sapphire InfoTech’s TestSmart may be used with other test products to perform not only laboratory-based certification testing but also network performance and configuration management of any IP-addressable device. Automation with TestSmart can speed and ease the testing of networked devices.” said Manoj Betawar, vice president of Sapphire InfoTech.

About Sapphire InfoTech

Sapphire InfoTech is a Fremont; California based software Solutions Company that provides test automation and provisioning solutions for multiple industries.  The company's initial offerings have already helped Telecom and Networking enterprises achieve faster product testing and certifications, lowering development time and expenses by an average of 50-60% when compared to traditional testing methods.  Sapphire InfoTech was founded in 2000.

For more information, contact Sapphire InfoTech at 46721 Fremont Boulevard, Fremont, CA 94539; Phone: (510) 360-0990; Fax: (510) 360-0999; Email: info@sapphireinfotech.com.  For more information, visit our Web Site at http://www.sapphireinfotech.com/

This material is for informational purposes only and subject to change without notice.  It describes Sapphire InfoTech’s present plans to develop and make available to its customers certain products, features and functionality.