Case Study: Finisar achieves worry-free Perl administration and faster Xgig development with ActiveState's ActivePerl

Finisar - Customer Case Study

Finisar’s Xgig team builds hardware/software network test tools used to validate high‑speed networking devices. They needed a fast, easy way to program server administration tasks using Perl while minimizing technical and legal risk from integrating third‑party software into their enterprise products.

After evaluating options, Finisar adopted ActiveState’s ActivePerl enterprise distribution (OEM licensed). The tested solution made writing and running Perl scripts simple and reliable, eliminated the burden of managing Perl packages, provided clear redistribution licensing to reduce legal exposure, and let the team focus on improving Xgig’s core testing and analyzer functionality.

Finisar

Scott Baxter

Director of Software Development