Accanto Systems Garners Frost & Sullivan Award

Prestigious Best Practices Award recognizes Accanto's leadership in strategic product positioning and meeting customer solution demands.

HELSINKI, Finland, July 9, 2009 - Accanto Systems (www.accantosystems.com, formerly Sunrise Telecom Protocol Products Group), provider of monitoring, analysis and CSA solutions for mobile, fixed and converged operators, was recently awarded the 2009 World Wireless Protocol Analyzer and Network Monitoring Systems Product Line Strategy of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan.

"This award is a validation that our customer-centric philosophy is exactly the right approach," said Michele Campriani, Accanto Systems CEO. "We've done the research, addressed the market trends and listened to what our customers have identified to be their product needs. As a result, Accanto's solutions are affordable, customizable and effective in solving customer challenges as they deploy and manage services in converged network environments."

This particular Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award recognizes the company's ability to strategically position its products and bundle its services to suit a wide range of customers from network operators to network equipment manufacturers. "One of the main reasons behind the success of Accanto Systems is the scalability, visibility and functionality of its products across various technologies and end-users. All of these solutions can be used at various stages of the network deployment lifecycle, including pre-deployment, trial tests, etc.," said Olga Yashkova, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "There are a number of traditional network monitoring solutions available in the market that have been able to justify their cost only by troubleshooting faults in the network. Accanto System's integrated and intelligent solutions, on the other hand, are able to measure the performance and quality of the network, service, subscriber and device inputs and integrate them into meaningful information that can be used not only by technicians and the customer support team, but also by the marketing team."

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About Accanto Systems
With solutions deployed to 175 customers in over 60 countries, Accanto Systems is a leading supplier of advanced Customer Service Assurance and troubleshooting solutions to communications service providers. Accanto's probe-based Customer Service Assurance solutions provide in-depth monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting capabilities