Acterna, recently acquired by JDS Uniphase, has appointed Comtest as its sole representative in southern Africa.
Acterna is dedicated to communications test solutions, offering instruments, systems, software, services, and integrated solutions that help communications services providers, equipment manufacturers, and major communications users maintain their competitive advantage at each stage of the network lifecycle.
Comtest, headed up by Peter Verwer, provides test and measurement, communications, equipment and solutions from world leading manufacturers to the southern African market.
Peter Verwer
"We believe that Comtest has a professional team, equipped with excellent technical, sales and support skills to best support the Acterna solution in southern Africa," says Camille Abu-Saba, Acterna's regional director for the ME&A. We look forward to working with them to develop customer focused solutions for all the requirements in the network lifecycle."
Camille Abu-Saba
Says Peter Verwer: "Comtest's goal is to offer an excellent range of world class products supported by a high level of service from people with specialist knowledge and expertise. The addition of Acterna to our portfolio supports this vision."
"Our company adopts a total market support approach marrying functions like logistics, pre-sales consultation and technical support, client application solutions and service support with other value-added services like strategic marketing and training," he adds. "We are keen to go beyond testing to provide our customers with a competitive advantage in each phase of the network lifecycle together with a complete portfolio of instruments, systems, software, services and integrated solutions."
Comtest's service promise is to keep customers' test, measurement, communication and calibration equipment at consistently high levels of operation and accuracy. Repair and Metrology Services (RMS), a joint venture partner of Comtest, services the products handling all the calibration and repair requirements.
For more information contact Comtest, +27 (0)11 695 9162.
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