London - TS-Associates, the supplier of precision instrumentation solutions, has acquired the assets of latency management service provider Correlix.

The Correlix product becomes an additional offering under the TS-Associates Precision Instrumentation brand, alongside TipOff and Application Tap. The availability of these products installed side-by-side on the same appliance with a unified user interface based on contemporary Web 2.0 technologies is also planned, leveraging TS-Associates' "quantum leap" user interface framework.

TS-Associates' existing TipOff customers will gain access to Correlix's InfiniBand monitoring capability, a range of protocol decoders, a Quality Assurance facility and a managed service delivery capability. The next product release will be Correlix 5.0, featuring support for nanosecond precision, decoder and user interface SDKs, and other product enhancements.

As a result of the acquisition, TS-Associates adds data centre and enlarged office facilities in Wall Street, New York together with a development centre in Herzliya, Israel.

Henry Young, CEO of TS-Associates, says, "Following this acquisition we have all the technology assets required to offer a truly compelling range of Precision Instrumentation capabilities to the market. Correlix developed a competent, mature and powerful product. It is a good fit with TipOff in terms of both technology and commercial synergies."

Shawn Melamed, CEO of Correlix, says, "I believe that the addition of Correlix to TS-A's Precision Instrumentation product suite creates the most comprehensive offering available today in the latency monitoring space. I have always been impressed with TS-A's technology. Therefore I am excited that our customers can benefit from a strong partner that will provide continuity of support and development in addition to integration with TS-A's unique capabilities inherent in TipOff and Application Tap."

Shawn Melamed will act as a consultant to facilitate the smooth transition of existing Correlix customers over to TS-Associates.

Raymond Marra, COO Americas, says "During prior head-to-head evaluations, some customers would ideally have liked parts of TipOff and parts of Correlix. They no longer have to choose as a result of our product integration plan which will deliver seamless performance and operational benefits to both our existing and new customers."