Corporate Profile

Tollgrade is a leading provider of service assurance test solutions for the global telecommunications and utility industries. Our telecom solutions provide information to enable successful service turn-up and prevent, or solve, service affecting problems to ensure a positive customer experience. Our utility solutions provide advanced sensor technology and continuous grid intelligence for power distribution companies.

The company’s innovative network assurance solutions allow customers to:

• Competitively deploy, manage and maintain digital broadband services;
• Fully leverage their investments in existing network equipment; and
• Effectively utilize state-of-the-art technology for installing and remotely administering, testing and repairing their traditional network infrastructure.

Tollgrade operates globally with U.S. offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Piscataway, New Jersey and European offices in Germany , Belgium, and the United Kingdom.

Tollgrade History

2009 - Tollgrade introduces Stratum™ Service Assurance Platform for testing triple play services for telecom operators

2009 - Private Equity Group purchases cable product line from Tollgrade

2008 - Tollgrade launches a Smart Grid solution for the power utility market under the name "LightHouse"

2008 - Tollgrade brings DigiTEST ICE™ to the telecom broadband market to deliver xDSL, VoIP and IPTV service assurance from the remote DSLAM location.

2007 - Tollgrade acquisition of the Broadband Test Division of Teradyne, Inc. strengthens the Company's international footprint in network service assurance.

2006 - Tollgrade acquisition of the wireline test system unit of Emerson Network Power, Energy Systems, North America, Inc., a subsidiary of Emerson.

2005 - Tollgrade introduced four new broadband assurance products: DigiTest®HUB™ test platform, DigiTest Multi-Services Access System (MSAS), CheetahXD™ Broadband Service Assurance Platform and Cheetah™ DOCSIS®-based VoIP test point (CMD-E).

2003 - Tollgrade acquisition of the Cheetah™ cable status and performance monitoring product line from Acterna LLC.

2003 - Tollgrade introduced the DigiTest®EDGE® test system for multi-layered broadband networks.

2001 - Tollgrade acquisition of LoopCare™/MLT Test Operations Support System (OSS) from Lucent Technologies, Inc.

1999 - Tollgrade introduced the DigiTest® next generation centralized test solution for DSL pre-qualification and testing.

1999 - Tollgrade introduced Professional Services to support the network’s lifecycle.

1997 - Tollgrade introduced the LIGHTHOUSE® cable status monitoring system for Broadband Hybrid Fiber Coax (HFC) networks.

1995 - Tollgrade IPO – publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker “TLGD.”

1993 - Tollgrade introduced patented MCU® technology for emulated metallic by-pass.

1988 - Tollgrade was founded by R. Craig Allison, Rocco L. Flaminio and a group of private investors.