Acterna offers leased-based solutions

5 November 2002 -- Acterna has announced a new program designed to give customers a cost-effective option for securing the communications test and measurement solutions to maintain the reliability of their networks.

Acterna Contract Hire Services offers packages of Acterna's instruments, software, systems and services through lease agreements that enable customers to meet their communications test needs within the parameters of reduced capital spending budgets.

By providing an option for leased communications test equipment and services, Acterna Contract Hire Services gives customers greater financial flexibility by turning fixed costs into variable costs. It also enables customers to take advantage of the latest communications test innovations by easily upgrading or exchanging equipment as their requirements change.

Acterna Contract Hire Services is available through Acterna Advantage, a value-added portfolio of services, software and solutions that help Acterna customers secure their test equipment investment, ensure optimal system performance, increase workforce knowledge and skills, and automate processes to maximise operational efficiencies.

"While the industry faces one of the most challenging periods in its history, our customers' high standards for network performance remain unchanged. We are responding with a new program offering greater financial flexibility to maintain these standards," said Roger Friedli, Acterna's senior vice president of sales and services for EMEA.

Acterna Contract Hire Services will be delivered through a strategic alliance agreement with Microlease. European-based Microlease is a market leader in the network test equipment management and rental marketplace. With more than 23 years of experience in the communications test and measurement industry, Microlease has a global network of customers and banking partners, and a depth of experience in executing leasing agreements.

Acterna Contract Hire Services are immediately available in the UK, Germany, France, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria and Benelux. The program will also be introduced in Italy, Spain, and the Nordic region in autumn 2002. Through this new program, Acterna customers can lease communications test and measurement products, systems and services that include:

- Optical: ONT 30/50, ANT 20, TestPad 2000 (all modules), OLX-15, BTS
- Services and Solutions: NetOptimize Service Activator, NetOptimize Capacity Manager, NetOptimize Network Synchronizer
- Cable: Stealth Sweep Transceiver 5500, 5510, NetMentor RPS, NewMentor HEC3-P, HEC3-X, Path Track HCU 1500, 400, Digital Vision Service Activation Mentor (DSAM)
- Data: Cyclone Core, Cyclone Frame, Cyclone ATM, Cyclone IP
- Access: HST (all versions), TestPad 2000 (all modules), DSL-370, ANT-5
- Wireless: 2700, AirAudit, Air Compare