Winner of Frost & Sullivan 2018 Customer Value Leadership Award for Global Data Analytics Solutions
for Communications Service Providers
QUEBEC CITY, Jan. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO Inc. (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) continues to earn industry recognition for
leadership in service assurance with its portfolio of 5G-ready solutions for physical, virtual and hybrid networks. The latest
award—the Frost &
Sullivan 2018 Customer Value Leadership Award for Global Data Analytics Solutions for Communications Service
Providers—is the company's fifth in the last seven months.
The awards, which include Digital Transformation World's Outstanding Catalyst Innovation Award and Network Virtualization
Europe's Best Service Assurance Solution Award, reflect EXFO's commitment to supporting customers in the face of tremendous
disruption from new technologies such as 5G, network functions virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligence. The company's
solutions use automation to help customers safe-guard the operations of their networks by uncovering and flagging the causes of
severe service disruptions that impact multiple customers dramatically speeding up the detection, diagnosis and troubleshooting
of problems that affect subscribers.
"EXFO is unique in the data analytics solutions market for service providers for its solution based on automation, data
science, co-development with customers," said Kiran Unni, Vice President, Industrial at Frost
& Sullivan. "This latest award recognizes the company's ability to optimize subscriber experience and maximize benefits for
service provider teams at every level of these organizations, from engineering to customer care."
EXFO solutions are developed in collaboration with customers to match end-user requirements and environments and deliver
relevant, tangible benefits. Three UK is a prime example. The British telecommunications and internet service provider recently
partnered with EXFO to create a fully virtualized, network integrated platform to monitor traffic and trigger alarms when issues
are identified.
"We wanted to select the right partner and the right solution. We decided to go with EXFO's probe-based big data analytics
solution as we feel EXFO has the right mindset and approach to NFV," said Prasath Jagathrakshakalu, OSS Technical Design
Authority at Three UK. "In order to deliver better customer experience, we need to understand the end-to-end view of the services
we offer to our customers, the quality of the voice call, the speeds they are getting and the bottlenecks that create congestion
in our networks. EXFO's virtual probe-based solution gives us that view as it is flexible, scalable and embedded in virtual
infrastructure."
"With hundreds of use cases under its belt, EXFO's team has demonstrated a superior capability to support customers across the
entire service provider lifecycle," said Abdelkrim Benamar, EXFO's Vice-President of Service
Assurance, Systems and Services. "Our service assurance solutions deliver a unique combination of strengths in fiber testing and
monitoring with active testing, dynamic topology inventory, passive monitoring, and analytics. We're especially proud of this
award because it underlines our commitment to providing superior value to our customers and allocating resources to help them
reap the maximum benefits from the solutions they choose to deploy."
About EXFO
EXFO (NASDAQ: EXFO) (TSX: EXF) develops smarter test,
monitoring and analytics solutions for fixed and mobile network operators, webscale companies and equipment manufacturers in the
global communications industry. Our customers count on us to deliver superior network performance, service reliability and
subscriber insights. They count on our unique blend of equipment, software and services to accelerate digital transformations
related to fiber, 4G/LTE and 5G deployments. They count on our expertise with automation, real-time troubleshooting and big data
analytics, which are critical to their business performance. We've spent over 30 years earning this trust, and today 1,900
EXFO employees in over 25 countries work side by side with our customers in the lab, field, data center and beyond.
Video link: Three UK teams up with EXFO to become the 1st mobile operator to run a full NFV network in Europe
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