EdenTree teams with Curtiss-Wright for network lab automation

-- Test & Measurement World, 1/4/2007 7:26:00 AM

Lab management and test automation software developer EdenTree Technologies has expanded its partnership with Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing to provide tighter integration of the two companies' products for streamlined network lab automation.

EdenTree's Lab Manager software for managing, scheduling, configuring, and tracking lab resources provides a graphical user interface and API for controlling Curtiss-Wright's GLX4000 series of fourth-generation nonblocking, multiprotocol physical-layer switches. The products have been integrated since 2005.

The announcement reaffirms the companies' mutual commitment to maintaining and expanding integration of their respective products, providing their common customers in the network equipment and storage area networking (SAN) industries with easier and better access to the connectivity management features they require for testing current and future technologies.

Lab Manager's drag-and-drop GUI allows test engineers, developers, customer support personnel, and other lab users to design and schedule test topologies consisting of devices that are interconnected by GLX4000 switches. The solution transparently and dynamically builds the topologies, eliminating manual recabling and providing automated and remote control of test topologies, easier sharing of equipment, and a dramatic increase in test velocity. The GLX4000 supports up to 288 ports and up to 2.5 Tbps in switching capacity.

Jay Oyakawa, president and CEO of EdenTree Technologies stated, "One of the capabilities built into our recently rearchitected Lab Manager 5.0 is a very tight integration with Curtiss-Wright's GLX4000, providing our customers with powerful new features for transparently provisioning and controlling the switching infrastructure while granting easy access to the GLX4000's best-in-class features."

www.edentreetech.com, www.cwcembedded.com.