Swedish Integrated Network Device Manufacturer Enhances Products and
Processes with DOORS and Tau
STOCKHOLM,
Sweden MALMO, Sweden and IRVINE, California--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Telelogic
(STO:TLOG), the leading provider of software solutions that align
advanced systems and software development with business objectives,
today announced that SwitchCore AB (Stockholm Exchange: SCOR), Lund,
Sweden, a manufacturer of integrated network devices for data, voice
and video communication based on the Ethernet standard, is using
Telelogic DOORS and Tau to improve its processes and products.
Independent market analysts rank SwitchCore as the world's
fastest growing supplier in the Gigabit Ethernet switching device market.
Traditionally, SwitchCore has managed software and product requirements
using word processing and spreadsheet programs. Consequently, the
company had limited traceability between documents and no traceability
between requirements and test specifications. According to Jens Hultman,
manager of Systems and Software at SwitchCore AB, besides being very
time-consuming, this manual process could not guarantee every
requirement was included in the finished product. As a result, in 2005
the company began evaluating requirement management solutions. However,
because SwitchCore subcontracts the development of software drivers to
Mindtree Consulting, Bangalore, India, an international information
technology services company, any solution had to support distributed
development.
These challenges have been solved with the implementation of Telelogic
DOORS. Telelogic DOORS is the company's market- and technology- leading
family of solutions for requirements management that improves quality by
optimizing communication and collaboration, and by promoting compliance
and verification. Using DOORS, SwitchCore is now able to maintain
traceability between all documents for all requirements specifications.
Based on the company's quick success with DOORS, it explored other
Telelogic solutions and selected solutions from Telelogic's Tau product
family, which automates design and development best practices. "With the
tools we had, we could not validate what we had developed, which could
jeopardize product quality," said Hultman. In the future SwitchCore will
investigate the possibility to automatically generate a reference model
from the UML specifications.
Improvements are numerous since implementing Telelogic solutions. With
complete traceability from DOORS throughout the entire requirements
specification process, SwitchCore has increased product quality and it
can now validate that all requirements have been met. In addition, DOORS
has virtually eliminated the time staff spent tracking different
versions of requirements. As a result of implementing Tau and leveraging
the power of its formal language (UML), the company is able to validate
and simulate code to ensure that all functions as required prior to
release.
"Our investment in DOORS and Tau has minimized the risk of a product not
meeting requirements, which is extremely costly and of course unwanted,"
said Hultman. "Overall, our development process is shorter now as well
as smoother, and our staff now have more time to focus on value-added
activities. For example, the manufacturing lifecycle for our new
Xpeedium product has been shortened considerably by using Telelogic
products."
About SwitchCore
SwitchCore AB develops, markets and sells integrated network devices for
data, voice and video communication based on the Ethernet standard. The
core of SwitchCore's expertise is in its CXE
technology, which allows for significantly higher network product
capacity. Using SwitchCore's components,
customers can develop network products that cost-efficiently manage and
prioritize data, video and voice traffic for many demanding
applications. Customers and partners are network equipment manufacturers
and suppliers, including Intel, Allied Telesyn, Huawei/3Com, Alloptic,
Corecess, Dasan, Radisys and World Wide Packets. The Group presently has
about 60 employees and some 40 consultants contracted. SwitchCore's
headquarters is in Lund, Sweden. The Company also has offices in San
Jose, USA, as well as Singapore and Shanghai in Asia and Rotterdam in
Europe. The Company is listed on Stockholm Stock Exchange in the Small
Cap segment under the SCOR ticker. For more information visit http://www.switchcore.com/
About Telelogic
Telelogic® is a leading global provider of
solutions for automating and supporting best practices across the
enterprise - from powerful modeling of
business processes and enterprise architectures to requirements-driven
development of advanced systems and software. Telelogic's
solutions enable organizations to align product, systems, and software
development lifecycles with business objectives and customer needs to
dramatically improve quality and predictability, while significantly
reducing time-to-market and overall costs.
To better enable our customers' drive towards
an automated lifecycle process, Telelogic supports an open architecture
and the use of standardized languages. As an industry leader and
technology visionary, Telelogic is actively involved in shaping the
future of enterprise architecture, application lifecycle management, and
customer needs management by participating in industry organizations
such as INCOSE, OMG, The Open Group, Eclipse, ETSI, ITU-T, the
TeleManagement Forum, and AUTOSAR.
Headquartered in Malmö, Sweden, with U.S.
headquarters in Irvine, California, Telelogic has operations in 20
countries worldwide. Customers include Airbus, Alcatel, BAE SYSTEMS,
BMW, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Ericsson, General Electric,
General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, NEC, Philips, Samsung,
Siemens, Sprint, Thales, and Vodafone.
For more information, please visit www.telelogic.com
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Contacts
Telelogic
Holly L. Barnett, APR
Public Relations Director
+1
(949) 885 2490
or
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Global Communications
Manager
+44 (1865) 784285
or
Catharina Paulcén,
EVP
Corporate Communications
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