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Trevilon and Frontline Test
Equipment
Deliver Solution for Analyzing NTCIP
Protocols
FTS™ for NTCIP Is the Price/Performance
Leader For Analyzing Intelligent Transportation System Communication
Protocols!
Charlottesville, VA – June 4, 2001.
Frontline Test Equipment, Inc., the leader in affordable, PC-based,
data communication test equipment, and Trevilon Corporation, an industry
leader in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) standards, today
announced the availability of their FTS™ for NTCIP analyzer for the
SNMP and STMP protocols (download demo version here).
While existing SNMP protocol analyzers are both expensive and
limited in scope to supporting Internet compliant information, FTS™
for NTCIP is affordably priced and supports all standardized
center-to-field protocol stacks for the transportation industry—and
is able to decode proprietary objects.
The FTS™ for NTCIP
feature set includes real-time data capture, time stamping,
filtering, and error analysis. However, the product’s truly
differentiating attribute is its ability to fully decode data frames
on the link between a central system and one or more field
devices—at the bit level. This full
decoding capability enables FTS™ for NTCIP users to rapidly detect
and isolate even the most minute and intermittent problems
associated with their NTCIP compatible products, applications, and
systems.
FTS™ for NTCIP is an indispensable test tool
for intelligent transportation system product developers, system
integrators, and system troubleshooters. The protocol analyzer
enables shorter and less costly development intervals for NTCIP
compliant equipment and applications, faster and more efficient
NTCIP system installations, and quicker resolution of intermittent
problems.
According to Kenneth Vaughn, Trevilon President and member of the NTCIP Joint
Committee, “The Frontline Test System (FTS) software is a proven
product with thousands of copies sold. This base product has now
been extended to support the NTCIP protocols, which will
revolutionize the way NTCIP systems are developed, integrated, and
tested. The initial response
from the industry has been outstanding.” Adds Eric
Kaplan, President of Frontline Test Equipment , “We are delighted to partner with
Trevilon in providing an FTS-based protocol analysis solution to
this rapidly growing market.”
FTS™ for NTCIP runs on any
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000 compatible PC and can monitor serial links, Ethernet
links, or the connection to an internal modem. The product
is priced at US$3,495. The FrameDecoder option, which
enables the user to create custom decodes for proprietary protocols
or protocol extensions, is priced at US$500.
About Frontline Test
Equipment, Inc.
Founded in 1991, Frontline Test Equipment, Inc.
designs, develops, markets, and supports cost-effective, PC-based
data communication test tools for the computer and communications
industries. The company is currently fielding
a family of general purpose and application specific protocol
analyzers based upon a common protocol decoding engine—the FTS
software. The resulting consistent look and feel across all
Frontline products drastically reduces learning curves for engineers
working in multiple protocol environments.
In addition to FTS™ for NTCIP, currently
available products based on the FTS software include: Serialtest
Async, Serialtest Spy, and AsyncExpress (asynchronous serial data
and protocol analyzers); Serialtest ComProbe
(synchronous/asynchronous serial data and protocol analyzers);
SerialBERT (Bit Error Rate Tester); Ethertest (10/100 Mbps Ethernet
analyzer); SerialBlue (BlueTooth protocol analyzer), and FTS™ for IA
& SCADA (Industrial Automation and SCADA communication protocol
analyzer). FTS products are PC-based and support Windows 95, 98, Me,
NT, and 2000.
Frontline
is headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia,
with a sales and support office located in
Vienna, Austria. The company distributes
products worldwide to a diverse customer base including AT&T,
Sprint, SBC, Verizon, Amoco, General Electric, Rockwell Automation,
Department of Defense, Burlington Northern Railroad, VISA, 3COM, and
America Online (AOL). The worldwide installed base of Frontline
products exceeds 25,000.
About Trevilon Corporation
Trevilon is an industry
leader in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) founded in 2000
by Kenneth L. Vaughn, P.E. and headquartered in the metropolitan
Washington,
D.C.
area. Trevilon is nationally recognized as an authority in ITS
standards development, NTCIP conformance testing, procurement review
and independent verification and validation of
systems.
Contact
Information
For
additional information regarding FTS™ for NTCIP please contact
either:
###Serialtest, SerialBERT, Ethertest, ComProbe,
and Frontline Test System are registered trademarks, and FTS,
Frontline, and SerialBlue are trademarks of Frontline Test
Equipment, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective
owners.
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