Aeroflex acquires Shenick Network Systems

Aeroflex has announced the acquisition of Shenick Network Systems, a provider of virtual testing for next-generation software-defined networking.

For the last two years, Aeroflex has partnered with Shenick to enhance the capabilities of its wireless infrastructure test products. Aeroflex says Shenick’s TeraVM software product offers network providers the ability to emulate and measure millions of unique IP application flows to support network and application development and performance testing in next-generation converged and cloud-based networks.

Aeroflex says it believes the acquisition will help it continue to grow and maintain its market position in wireless infrastructure test equipment and to increase gross margins and profitability while expanding its end markets.

Shenick, headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, is a pioneer in the IP test and measurement testing market. It has developed a solution for today’s virtualised and physical network infrastructure. TeraVM helps service providers and network equipment manufacturers load, analyse, develop and validate the performance and capabilities of a wide variety of network and security devices including VPN/Firewall, vSwitch, DPI or IPS/IDS, vLoad Balancer and video infrastructure.

Additionally, TeraVM provides realistic and high-load traffic generation and analysis from 1 gigabit to 1 terabit of fully stateful data application traffic, with comprehensive measurement and performance analysis on each and every application flow to easily pinpoint and isolate problems.

Aeroflex expects the acquisition to be neutral to its fiscal 2014 financial results and accretive to its fiscal 2015 financial results.