Accedian, the global end-to-end network performance assurance experts, has announced that it has partnered with Lanner Electronics Inc., to integrate its fully virtualized SkyLIGHTâ"¢ performance assurance platform into Lanner´s x86 network platform, the company said. The combined solution will bring performance assurance and visibility to Lanner´s service provider customers deploying its platforms for universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) applications. Service providers are accelerating virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) and uCPE roll-outs using a mix of centralized, distributed, and hybrid deployment models with their enterprise customers. While bringing greater customer service flexibility and cost savings, service providers also need complete quality of experience (QoE) and quality of service (QoS) visibility to manage service level agreements (SLAs) and identify network problems in their virtualized service deployments.