The Company

EdenTree's flagship product, the EdenTree Lab Manager application, is the leading software platform for managing, scheduling, and tracking connectivity of test equipment and network devices in labs. It is a client/server application that provides automated re-configurations, secure remote access, and asset management. Managing a variety of third party physical layer switches and power switches, Lab Manager creates a software-controlled switching infrastructure that replaces manual patch panels, while providing an easy-to-use graphical user interface and APIs.

Industry Overview
Throughout today’s networking labs – R&D labs, Systems Verification labs, Regression labs, Competitive Analysis labs, Customer Proof of Concept labs, Sales Demo labs, Customer Support labs, Interoperability labs, and many others - underutilized equipment and inefficiently used labor are causing high technology companies to waste time and money. Today labs function in much the same way as they have for the last 10 to 15 years, with manual patch panels connecting a variety of test equipment and devices and systems under test. However, technology companies are under pressure to reduce costs and speed time to market for new products and services, largely being accomplished through various automation efforts.

Factors that are driving automation include:

• Test equipment and devices under test (DUTs) are becoming more and more expensive
• The number of DUTs and the variety of interface types is growing making the labs more heterogeneous and more complex
• There are more remote lab users, as companies expand worldwide and outsource
• More labs are being consolidated, resulting in increased need to share resources and manage multiple user groups with multiple privileges
• Time-to-market pressures are higher

By replacing manual patch panels with physical layer switches that can be controlled by software, topology changes can be made and recalled from easy-to-use Graphical User Interfaces or scripts.

BEFORE Typical “Rat’s Nest” Laboratory Environment		AFTER Lab users can access equipment remotely to search for devices, configure topologies, and schedule tests

Test Labs
In a typical test lab environment, it is generally accepted that at least 50% of an engineer's lab time is spent on non-value-added set-up and configuration rather than value-added testing. And testing can only be accomplished at the location where the test equipment is installed, resulting in lost time for expensive engineering talent, delay in cycle time and longer time to market, quality issues, and gross inefficiencies in the entire product development process.
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Manufacturing Labs
Manufacturing labs for networking systems involve highly repetitive testing conditions and switching among systems under test and test equipment. These groups require a way to automate equipment sharing and switching, allowing test equipment and units under test to be quickly and easily multiplexed across multiple systems.
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Training and Demo Labs
For large high tech manufacturers with sales personnel and distributors located across the globe, distributing new products and applications for training and demo purposes is a costly and unwieldy problem. Many sales support organizations are looking for ways to provide remote software distribution, training, and demos to their internal and external representatives and customers.

EdenTree Lab Manager software managing physical layer switching infrastructure represents a unique solution that provides multiple clients with a graphical user interface and script interfaces for designing, saving, scheduling, and applying configurations, searching for devices, and tracking asset availability and usage.