San Jose, Calif., February 3, 2017 – Spirent Communications Plc (LSE: SPT) a leading provider of Connected Car and Automotive Ethernet test solutions and Ruetz, experts for data communication in vehicles, announce that after two successful years of cooperation, further activities are planned to make Automotive Ethernet Conformance Testing even more customer-friendly.

AUTOSAR (www.autosar.org) and OPEN ALLIANCE (www.opensig.org) are special interest groups that encourage wide scale adoption of Ethernet-based networks as the standard in automotive networking applications.

“This cooperation with Reutz enables Spirent to offer customers a ready-to-use package for testing of Automotive Ethernet according to AUTOSAR and OPEN ALLIANCE standards.” says Thomas Schulze, Spirent’s Director of Business Development for Automotive. “We are happy to benefit from Ruetz’s expertise, and to be able to extend our conformance testing from layers 2-7 to the physical layer, thus covering a wider field of applications,” 

“We are proud to be the partner of Spirent because this cooperation enables a very good testability of Automotive Ethernet ECUs. This speeds up the development process at the Tier 1 and brings quality, robustness and compliance for future automotive applications,” explained Wolfgang Malek, General Manager and Co-Founder of Ruetz System Solutions.

Spirent invites visitors to its booth (numbers 18 and 19) at the Automotive Ethernet Congress, running February 7-8 in Munich, Germany. For more information about Spirent automotive solutions, please visit https://www.spirent.com/Solutions/Automotive.

About Ruetz System Solutions GmbH

With comprehensive expertise in automotive data communication and the interconnected world, Ruetz System Solutions provides full service for manufacturers and suppliers for a smooth and on-time start of production (SOP). As technology partner, they assist with engineering services and test laboratory solutions as well as with broad competence for data transmission, to make customer products fulfill the highest standards for quality, robustness and compliance. For more information, visit www.ruetz-system-solutions.com.