Tiscali Netherlands Selects Spirent® Communications for IPTV Testing

Business Wire, Oct 10, 2006

Spirent TestCenter to Enable Delivery of Next-Generation IP Services

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Spirent Communications (NYSE: SPM) (LSE: SPT), a worldwide provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems for next-generation network technologies, today announced that Tiscali Netherlands has selected Spirent TestCenter to ensure interoperability of its multi-vendor equipment in its core and access networks. Spirent TestCenter will enable Tiscali Netherlands to test current and future equipment as it upgrades its network to meet future customer demand and to cater for bandwidth-hungry services such as IPTV.

"Delivering high quality services to our customers is top priority for Tiscali," stated Ben Lammers, senior network development architect at Tiscali. "With the flexible Spirent TestCenter platform we are able to ensure our QoS is thoroughly qualified before any new customer services are launched."

Spirent TestCenter is a market leading platform, offering unmatched performance and scalability for the analysis of next-generation communication services and devices. Spirent TestCenter simultaneously emulates thousands of clients requesting an IP address using DHCP, thousands of clients requesting multicast video using IGMP and thousands of clients receiving unicast internet traffic completing the Triple Play picture. This capability, combined with MPLS network emulation, provides benchmarks for network performance all from a single testing platform.

"Tiscali Netherlands has a long standing relationship with Spirent Communications," stated David Hill, vice president of EMEA sales, Spirent Communications. "Spirent TestCenter builds upon Spirent's expertise in the data communications market and offers unmatched capability for testing IPTV services."

Spirent TestCenter enables network equipment manufacturers and service providers to accurately measure the performance and scalability of routers and switches. It can be used to create large-scale tests that exceed the capacity of devices under test. Such tests can evaluate key performance parameters under typical and extreme subscriber traffic load conditions, and they can determine whether connection rates can support expanding subscriber bases at various bandwidth levels.

About Spirent Communications

Spirent Communications www.spirentcom.com is a global provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems that enable the development and deployment of next-generation networking technology such as Internet telephony, broadband services, 3G wireless, global navigation satellite systems, and network security equipment. Spirent Communications' solutions are used by more than 1,700 customers in 30 countries, including the world's largest equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises and governments. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Spirent Communications has 1,800 employees worldwide. Spirent Communications plc Ordinary shares are traded on the London Stock Exchange (ticker: SPT) and on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker: SPM; CUSIP number: 84856M209) in the form of American Depositary Shares ("ADS"), represented by American Depositary Receipts, with one ADS representing four Ordinary shares. Spirent Communications' sales to the United States government are made through Spirent Federal Systems Inc. www.spirentfederal.com

About Tiscali Netherlands

Tiscali Netherlands is part of Tiscali S.p.A., headquartered in Cagliari, Italy. With one of the largest and most interconnected IP networks in the world, Tiscali is able to supply its customers, residential and business, with a full range of services: Internet access, both dial-up and ADSL, voice, VoIP, media, value added services (VAS), and other technologically advanced products. As of the 31st December 2005, Tiscali had 4.5 million active users in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and the Czech Republic. More than 1.9 million were ADSL customers, of which more than 435,000 received unbundled services.

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