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Making Products that allow visibility into sophisticated network infrastructures can solve one of the biggest issues for those trying to diagnose and fix complex network issues in a timely fashion. By Simen K. Frostad, Chairman, Bridge Technologies the Complex Simple

You probably saw the news in June: a federal court in the USA ruled that high speed internet access should be defined as a utility – affirming the US government’s view that broadband is as essential to people’s lives as power, water, telephony and so on. That ruling will have many implications in terms of regulation – but just as importantly for us at Bridge Technologies, it confirms that ours is a vital business to be in. Our business is all about empowering operators and assuring network reliability and quality. We provide the tools that enable network managers and technicians to understand what’s going on. They fall – broadly – into two categories. Tools for analysing the network and tools for making sense of that analysis. Two of those tools recently won prestigious awards. The first was from the IABM, where the VB440-V virtual probe won in the “Test, Quality Control & Monitoring” category.

Simen Frostad (above left) receives the IABM Award at IBC

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Vol. 38 No. 4 - November 2016 Issue