US : Catapult Communications and Testing Technologies IST GmbH announced a joint marketing agreement to deliver TTCN-3 based conformance test suites and development tools to the telecom test market. Under the agreement Catapult and Testing Technologies will collaborate to further integrate Testing Tech's TTCN-3 products with the DCT2000 test system and to implement a variety of marketing programs.

Conformance test suites for SIP, H.248, SUA, M3UA, SCTP, and IPv6 are immediately available from Testing Tech. In addition, Testing Tech offers a script writing tool called TTworkbench(R) to speed the development and modification of test scripts for a wide variety of telecom technologies and interfaces. An adapter that allows Testing Tech's TTCN-3 based test scripts to run on the DCT2000 test system is immediately available from Catapult.

According to Theofanis Vassiliou-Gioles, CEO of Testing Tech, "This marketing agreement recognizes the growing interest in TTCN-3 as a development and test environment for the telecom sector. We look forward to working with Catapult Communications to help telecom companies integrate our portfolio of TTCN-3 products with Catapult's high performance DCT2000 test system."

According to David Mayfield, Catapult's president and COO, "We are pleased to work with the recognized leader in TTCN-3. This collaboration provides our DCT2000 customers access to Testing Tech's portfolio of TTCN-3 products and to Testing Tech's support expertise. Our initial focus is on telecom service providers and network equipment manufacturers who are drawn to TTCN-3 as a standards-based approach for testing wireless, IMS, VoIP and traditional SS7 technologies."