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Spirent Communications, today announced that its testing products and services set the standard again in 2004, supporting 106 performance analysis and service assurance tests through its Advanced Test Programs (ATP) for the world's leading IT testing laboratories. These labs use Spirent's enterprise solutions to test networks and applications such as security, VoIP, streaming media and web applications. Spirent's ATP works with the testing industry's leaders such as Broadband-Testing, EANTC, Mier Communications, Neohapsis, Network Computing, Network Test, Network World, NSS Labs and The Tolly Group. Spirent's testing solutions continue to prove they are the standard that professional testers trust for accurate and impartial technology assessment. ATP has been involved in many landmark tests this year, including Moonv6, a U.S. Government project with the goal of proving and converting department of defense systems to IPv6 by 2008, and the SuperComputing 2004 Bandwidth Challenge, the fifth annual event challenging participants to push new records in network throughput. Spirent's ATP has for many years provided end-to-end network testing for Networld+Interop's eNet, showcasing Spirent's robust network monitoring and performance analysis systems, and iLabs, which has conducted test demonstrations of key networking technologies including IP storage, wireless LAN security and MPLS. Spirent Communications' ATP consistently pushes the limits of state-of-the-art testing. ATP is a worldwide initiative that enables critical testing and research support for all divisions of Spirent Communications. ATP is a trusted partner to testing labs, industry forums and leading industry publications, who all turn to Spirent to provide answers on how to effectively test their technologies. "Spirent Advanced Test Programs partners consistently validate the critical need for our products and expertise," said Neil Anderson, senior director of Global Services, Spirent Communications. "As the first-ever initiative in the communications sector conducting the industry's most advanced test and measurement activities, ATP continues to support the leading universities, publications, trade shows, consortia, and advanced research facilities, as well as the industry's most prestigious independent testing organizations that need to test enterprise-class networks and applications. Spirent solutions are clearly the choice of testing professionals and enterprises alike." "Over the years, Spirent's enterprise testing solutions have consistently proven themselves as an indispensable component of evaluating a wide range of software and hardware," said Greg Shipley, CTO, Neohapsis. "We not only rely on their products to do our job, but we rely on Spirent to keep pace with our demands as we continue to push testing envelopes. Put simply, Neohapsis could not deliver the world-class testing that we've become famous for without Spirent." Spirent Communications ATP seeks to foster and author unbiased, industry agreed-upon test methodologies that meet the highest standards possible and implement those methodologies in Spirent products. ATP contributes to the advancement of new technology and test methodologies through its participation in industry forums such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF), as well as through publicly and privately conducted tests. ATP has more than ninety partners including magazine labs, research and educational institutions and professional testing labs that trust Spirent to provide them with the testing solutions that have made them the standard in the industry. ATP partners include lab partners, research and education and industry forums. Lab partners: -- Broadband Testing -- Business Communications Review -- CableLabs -- CCID -- Centennial Networking Lab -- China ComputerWorld -- China Network World -- CT Labs -- EANTC -- eWeek -- InfoWorld -- ISOCORE -- Light Reading -- Miercom -- Network Benchmarking Lab -- Neohapsis -- Network Computing -- Network World -- NetWorld+Interop -- NSS -- NTS -- PC Magazine -- PC Pro -- SuperComputing (SC200x) -- Secure Enterprise Computing -- tComLabs -- The Tolly Group -- TTA -- VeriTest Research and Education -- ATEAM -- CENTAUR Lab at NCSU -- DANTE -- ETRI -- GCATT -- ICT -- Internet2 -- ITEC-OHIO -- MII -- NCTU -- NTU -- RITT -- University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab -- University of Hawaii -- ANCL -- University of Wisconsin -- University of Wyoming -- West Texas A&M Industry Forums -- DSL Forum -- ETSI -- HomePlug Powerline Alliance -- Internet Engineering Task Force -- IPv6 Forum -- Metro Ethernet Forum -- MPLS/Frame Relay Alliance -- Multiservice Switching Forum -- SIP Forum For more information on Spirent ATP, go to www.testedwithspirent.com.