DZS, a global leader in access networking and cloud software platforms, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire specific core assets of Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment (ASSIA), an industry pioneer of broadband access quality-of-experience solutions.
These assets include the CloudCheck WiFi experience management and Expresse access-network optimization solutions deployed by leading tier 1 operators globally. As part of the transaction, DZS will gain an elite team of highly skilled cloud and AI software engineers, architects and business leaders. The acquired software solutions will add data analytics and network intelligence capabilities to DZS Cloud, including managed WiFi solutions, access-network optimization and intelligent automation tools.
CloudCheck and Expresse deliver incremental revenue opportunities, an optimal consumer experience and operational efficiencies for service providers including:
- High performance service delivery: intelligent and adaptive WiFi management with real-time access-edge performance optimization
- World-class network and customer-support operations: proactive, predictive and automated diagnostics, troubleshooting and resolution of service issues integrated into customer support and network operations workflows
- Advanced service insights and recommendations: broadband traffic and user behavior modelling to identify service and network-upgrade opportunities
CloudCheck and Expresse uniquely transform how service providers manage, optimize and deliver new services that enhance consumer experience. Expresse has pioneered the access-network assurance category for service providers globally for over a decade. This software solution optimizes the end-to-end, consumer quality-of-experience with real-time monitoring, diagnosis and resolution of performance issues in multi-vendor access networks. CloudCheck will become the DZS consumer-management platform, optimizing WiFi performance and providing consumers with a menu of capabilities including parental controls, network performance analytics, security protection, and a roadmap of new in-home services.
The newly acquired customer relationships represent over 125 million broadband and WiFi connections. The Expresse and CloudCheck solutions support over 150 unique residential gateways from a wide array of equipment suppliers, further extending the DZS commitment to open standards and interoperability.
Charlie Vogt, President and CEO of DZS
The expansion of the DZS Xperience software suite with CloudCheck and Expresse, combined with our existing DZS Cloud service orchestration and network automation offerings that are the basis of the new DZS Xtreme software suite, distinguish DZS Cloud as one of the industry’s most comprehensive service and consumer-experience-management software platforms with a unique value proposition for multi-vendor service provider network environments.
John Cioffi, ASSIA CEO and Chairman
The CloudCheck and Expresse addition to the DZS convergent and transformational portfolio of broadband-connectivity, mobile, optical-edge and network orchestration solutions will create an enviable end-to-end portfolio of access networking, in-home WiFi and cloud native software solutions. These will further enhance connectivity, proliferate adaptive network-performance optimization and increase the levels of scalable support provided to ASSIA’s existing customers operational efficiency and as well for the many other customers of DZS.
