Spirent to acquire Metrico Wireless for $52 mn

Spirent Communications has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Metrico Wireless for a value of $52 million. This acquistion enables Spirent to strengthen its end-to-end test portfolio. It also helps its customers to increase subscriber satisfaction and loyalty while reducing time to market and operational costs

Based in Frederick, Maryland, Metrico is a provider of services and tools that enable carriers, device vendors and technology providers to analyse the performance and subscriber quality of experience (QoE) of mobile devices in the field.

“Innovation and competition in the wireless industry is driving aggressive release cycles of sophisticated devices and services,” said Bill Burns, CEO of Spirent.

He added, “As carriers and device vendors strive to minimise time to market, improve subscriber quality of experience and reduce device return rates, they must also contend with disruptive technologies including 4G data, VoIP and the cloud. In line with our strategy of investing in growing and emerging technology markets, Spirent is responding to these needs by bringing together our device performance test strength in the lab with Metrico's field-based, subscriber-level focus. The result is an unparalleled end-to-end test portfolio, allowing our customers to increase subscriber satisfaction and loyalty while reducing time to market, as well as their operational costs.”

Metrico's cloud-based Testing as a Service (TaaS) solutions deliver end-to-end testing under real-world conditions on live networks with comprehensive reporting and analysis, measuring QoE of devices and services with respect to voice, data, video, battery, location and application performance. In addition to its service offerings, Metrico supplies innovative Measurement Systems to carriers and device manufacturers, said a press release.

“ Dimitrios Topaltzas, CEO of Metrico Wireless said, “The combination of our service and product solutions for the lab and field results in a unique offering that enables operators and manufacturers to optimize end-to-end QoE more efficiently than ever before.”