TesLA: Enabling multivendor Test Automation

The TesLA (Test Lab Automation) Alliance is an open industry alliance of IP test vendors working together to author, publish, support and implement standards that enable seamless and vendor agnostic Test Lab Automation.

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Friday November 14, 2008

On Friday November 14th, the TesLA Alliance (Test Lab Automation) held its first quarterly alliance meeting at the Ixia iSimCity facilities in Santa Clara, CA. The all day affair was a huge success.

The event was extremely well attended by ensemble list including people from the member organizations, Customer Advisory Board and potential member organizations.

Attendees were:

Adam Stein, Vice President of Marketing, Mu Dynamics
Ajit Sancheti, Co-founder and Vice President of Business Development, Mu Dynamics
Ellen Pasquale, Field Application Engineer, Qualisystems
Andy Huckridge, VP Marketing, Codenomicon
Atul Bhatnagar, CEO, Ixia
Brian Buege, Head of BT's Test Strategy and Development , British Telecom
Dave Sheaffer, VP Business Development, President and CEO, Fanfare Software
David Chartier, CEO, Codenomicon
Deepesh Arora, Director Product Management, Ixia
Eitan Lavie, Product Manager, Qualisystems
Jason Perlewitz, Manager of Professional Services, APCON
Jitin Dhanani, Business Development & Alliance Manager, Ixia
John Obermeyer, North American Sales Manager, Qualisystems
Keith Kidd, Director of Network and Technology Labs, Verizon
Kevin Glavin, co-founder & CTO, Shenick
Kingston Duffie, Founder and CTO , Fanfare Software
Les Murphy, CTO, Shunra
Matt Read, Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Shunra
Nariman Teymourian, CEO, Gale Technologies
Neal Roche, VP Marketing, Ixia
Peter Atanasovski, Technical Consultant, Agilent
Susan Powell, Contracts Manager, Ixia
Tom Ryan, President and CEO, Fanfare Software
Victor Alston, Senior VP Product Management, Ixia
Vincent Mendoza, Master Technical Consultant (TC), ProCurve Division, HP
Wesley Hand, Senior Product Manager, Ixia

Some of the key highlights from the meeting are noted below:

• The salient features of the Bylaws and IP policies of the Alliance were presented and discussed.
• All the milestones achieved in the short span of time since the inception of the Alliance were presented and next steps were discussed.
• The Customer Advisory Board (CAB) was in full attendance showing solidarity for the alliance and they gave invaluable feedback and input to the Alliance going ahead.
• The Alliance did a successful live demonstration of TesLA Framework. The demo showed the TesLA composer controlling Shunra appliance along with Ixia and Apcon plug-ins at the same time.
• The Alliance unveiled TesLA composer SDK and presented the TesLA plug-in components, the process for building a plug-in and the contents required of a plug-in.
• The alliance took another step forward in the meeting by finalizing on the chair's of key committees such as the SDK committee, Marketing & Member committee, Finance & Accounting committee and Commercial Strategy & Certification committees. These committees will be responsible for strategizing and implementing steps towards their goals to further benefit TesLA in their respective areas.

Video highlights:

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Alliance Members

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