Products
Products we have supplied or sold ourselves are listed below.
EPS are not presently selling software or test appliances directly. Projects and solutions of
a similar nature are supplied to out customers.
Industrial Test Rig Controller (OEM supply to tecnisis ltd 2012-2103)
Control software for industrial test rig that tests PCB's and then calibrates completed RF based utility meters.
Includes operator and manager UI elements, instrument and hardware control, data logging.
Service Monitor Duo (EPS product 2008-2012)
A test appliance for testing cellular services. It presents 2 or 4 RF channels
and GPS capability.
Each RF channel has two SMA antennae connectors for either cell and GPS or cell and diversity. Forward facing "push push"
SIM holders provide easy accesibility.
Cellular capabilities are provided using modules from Cinterion, Option and Sierra Wireless. These give plenty of
flexibility, are able to support most current HSDPA and HSUPA services as well as GPRS and EDGE. Other modules can be
used if needed for your application. Each module is on a separate board that is independently switched under software
control. Module power down recovery, cold start testing and hard reset can all be performed from software.
The processor board is an Intel® AtomTM dual core running Windows® XP Embedded.
The appliance runs a wide variety of protocols and applications, simulating typical business
and consumer activity.
Probe BuilderTM (OEM supply to HP 2003-2010, EPS product thereafter)
Probe Builder JavaScript developer environment for building service testing scenarios. Originally part of HP's
"OpenView" product range. It was recently updated to allow stand alone operation and integration with
OMNI boom .
It implements tests using scripting and ActiveX® object technology, making extension and integration easy.
It provides a record and replay feature for Citrix®, Windows® and Internet
Explorer® to allow capture of customer scenarios for use in service tests.
You can build probes that meet a variety of needs:
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The Application Assistant allows you to build a probe by recording your use of Internet Explorer or any other Windows
graphical program.
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The Terminal Assistant allows you to record a Citrix® session with the host application and replay as
a probe from the client location(s).
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EPS Mobile Workbench provides support for mutihomed test systems and a range of protocols useful in mobile testing.
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General capabilities of the JScript® environment and ActiveX® object technology from
Microsoft and other suppliers give almost unlimited scope for probe builders.
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You can run commands on both Windows and UNIX® (using VT100 emulation or remote execution) and
process any output returned.
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You can probe databases using SQL with Microsoft’s ADO (ActiveX® Data Objects).
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Console applications may be run using built-in JScript facilities.
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Automation capable applications, such as Microsoft Office, may be scripted directly using their automation interfaces.
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You have access to an enormous range of measurement and administrative data through Microsoft’s Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI).
Control Point (EPS Product 2009-2012)
Probe Builder Control Point provides a control infrastructure for distributed service testing.
Control Point provides discovery and inventory of test equipment. It will discover PC's and manage your test PC’s, network
network interfaces, modem or phone connections, SIM cards and EPS specific test equipment.
It provides remote (LAN) access to modems for diagnostics and settings.
For EPS equipment it also provides remote power switching and supply sensing.
Control Point provides a GPS service for location based testing and allows multiple test scripts to share a GPS device.
Mobile Workbench (EPS Product 2009-2012)
This is a toolkit for professional developers that extends the capabilities of the Probe Builder product to enable
service testing for mobile and fixed networks.
Extensions are provided as objects ready for use in Probe Builder scripts. The following objects are available:
Network Routing and Statistics
Enables a probe’s data traffic to be routed over a named network interface. Service testing can effectively use multi-homed
test points with wi-fi, mobile broadband and LAN connections. This object also provides the script with control over Internet
Explorer caching and access to network interface statistics.
Network Client Objects
Protocol objects available for: mail (POP3/SMTP), telnet and ftp.
Windows Media Player Client
Implements web streaming media probes. This can test delivery of internet video and radio content from streaming and progressive
download sources. The test is oriented towards assessment of the end user experience.
PB Cell Object
Used for controlling cellular modems for testing mobile services. This provides dialer and mobile broadband connectivity control.
PB WAP/XHTML Object
A visual builder for WAP 1, WAP 2 and HTML probes is coupled with a run time scripting object for WAP and HTML protocols. Includes
support for SMS and WAP Push.
Voice Test Station (EPS Product 2007-2012)
This is a professional developer toolkit for telephony service testing that requires audio capabilities. It is based on processing
of PCM signals as either speech patterns, tone, or media content.
It is particularly useful where multi-lingual testing is required as it uses PCM pattern matching rather than voice
recognition. Changing a test from one language to another is as easy as loading a different sample catalogue. VTS is
also used for music sample discrimination. It applies time and frequency domain analysis to determine correct delivery
of value added services that involve music replay.
OpenView Response Time Workbench (HP Product 1998-2003)
Enabled the instrumentation of Windows® binaries so that response times and
workflow execution could be monitored using other HP OpenView products. EPS built the product as
a protoype and then sold the intellectual property rights to HP. EPS worked with HP to bring the
software to product status.
OpenView MeasureWare Desktop (HP Product 1996-2001)
Provided agent support for Windows desktops so they could report to HP's OpenView HP-UX servers.
It was originally supplied as client consulting to an HP customer.
HP purchased the intellectual property from EPS. EPS subsequently worked
with HP to bring to product status.
