GROWING TESLA ALLIANCE DEMONSTRATES INDUSTRY-FIRST MULTIVENDOR TEST AUTOMATION INTEROPERABILITY AT INTEROP LAS VEGAS 2009
New TesLA members Gale Technologies and OnPath Technologies join Ixia, Shunra, and Mu Dynamics in first public demonstration of standards-based interoperability at Interop
Calabasas, Calif – May 18, 2009 - The TesLA Alliance (Test Lab Automation) today announced its first public demonstration of pre-standards multivendor test automation integration at Interop Las Vegas 2009, booth 1813. TesLA’s XML-based run-time integration demonstrates real-world interoperability scenarios from five TesLA members: Ixia, Shunra, Mu Dynamics, Gale Technologies, and OnPath Technologies.
“Integration between different vendors’ solutions is essential,” said Steve Mitchell of F5 Networks, a TesLA Customer Advisory Board member. “Interoperability ensures reliable, dynamic scheduling and system-wide interaction within test architectures from disparate automation systems. The adoption of TesLA’s automation guidelines enhances the reliability and security of many commercial products, and helps both vendor development teams and operator support personnel implement homegrown system automation capabilities.”
TesLA is an open industry alliance of IP test vendors working together to author, publish, support and implement standards that enable seamless vendor-agnostic test lab automation. At Interop, TesLA will publicly demonstrate the pre-standard multivendor integration, due for ratification in June 2009. The pre-draft integration using Ixia’s Test Conductor, Gale Technologies’ Autolab, Mu Dynamics' Test Suite, OnPath Technologies’ 2908 physical layer switch and Shunra’s VE network emulator provides a proof-of-concept of code-free run time integration of multiple vendors’ products to streamline lab automation.
“Truly open test automation specifications, like those being developed by TesLA, will help both vendors and their customers perform objective tests (checklist of features, price and systematic performance),” said Brian Chee, Senior Contributing Editor at InfoWorld. “For complete network application testing, it is important to conform to published specifications, match published performance specs, and rely on built-in test automation to objectively benchmark how the entire system works together including under duress of unexpected traffic scenarios.”
TesLA’s Membership Ranks Growing, 2nd Webinar Featuring F5 Now Available
TesLA now has 11 member companies which includes three new IP test vendors: OnPath Technologies, Gale Technologies, and Packetstorm Communications. The TesLA Alliance is open to all companies in the network lab and test and measurement space, providing members with a unique opportunity to influence and author industry standards for enabling end-to-end test lab automation. Members influence and utilize TesLA standards, enabling them to develop TesLA compliant drivers for turnkey integration into leading-edge automated test harnesses. TesLA also hosted the second in its series of ongoing webinars on May 14th, 2009, with F5 discussing “Automation Best Practices.” To view archives of the Tesla webinars or more information, please visit http://www.teslaalliance.org/.
In addition to the TesLA pavilion, the TesLA alliance is also represented at Interop by other TesLA members including Shunra at booth # 2235, QualiSystems at booth # 1956 and APCON at booth # 975. Please visit http://www.teslaalliance.org/tesla_events/Interop09 for more details
About TesLA
TesLA is the Test Lab Automation Alliance and is a non-profit entity established in the USA. TesLA is an open industry alliance of IP test vendors working together to define industry wide standards that promote vendor-agnostic test lab automation. The members are active in authoring, publishing and maintaining the TesLA standards as well as ensuring that their products comply with TesLA standards. The standards ensure interoperability among members’ products, making it easy for customers to improve efficiency and productivity through end-to-end test automation processes.
More information about TesLA and its members can be found at http://www.teslaalliance.org/.
This material is for informational purposes only and subject to change without notice. It describes the TesLA Alliance’s present plans to develop and make available certain products, features and capabilities. TesLA Alliance members are only obligated to provide those deliverables specifically included in a written agreement between each company and its customer.
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