Carriers and Systems Vendors Validate Next Generation Systems and Applications with Industry's First LTE Test Solution from Spir
September 30 2008 - 5:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
Spirent Landslide compatible with all 4G mobile standards including
LTE, WiMAX, HSPA, CDMA and UMTS BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept. 30
/PRNewswire/ -- Spirent Communications (LSE: SPT), a global
provider of performance analysis and service assurance solutions,
today announced the launch of Long Term Evolution (LTE) testing
capabilities on its Spirent Landslide Mobile Packet Core Test
Platform (http://www.spirent.com/go/landslide) making the solution
the market's first performance testing tool compatible with all
current wireless standards including fourth generation (4G) network
infrastructure products and services. Spirent Landslide allows
customers to deploy mobile broadband networks and applications
rapidly and cost-effectively with unparalleled confidence while
serving the demanding needs of the next-generation subscribers.
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Spirent Landslide, offering Layer 4-7 testing, is capable of
emulating traffic from as many as 32,000 mobile base stations and
3.2 million simultaneous users at 120 gigabits per second and
creates 'real-life' test conditions that help identify and resolve
service issues prior to deployment. This approach significantly
improves time-to-market for new services, reduces subscriber churn
and increases the quality of experience (QoE) for subscribers using
next-generation applications. "The addition of these new wireless
testing capabilities of Spirent Landslide will enable service
providers and network equipment manufacturers to bring LTE
deployments forward." said James Brunson, director of Converged
Network Solutions at Spirent Communications. "Spirent Landslide
allows carriers and vendors to conduct regression and application
testing in as real world an environment as possible. This
ultimately enables the rollout of robust and reliable
infrastructure equipment and services which will exceed subscriber
expectations once they go to market." With the addition of LTE
testing capabilities, Spirent Landslide now addresses all 4G
standards such including WiMAX, HSPA, CDMA and UMTS. It also allows
network equipment manufacturers to test hand-offs between different
networks. This is crucial as it ensures subscribers have the
smoothest and most uninterrupted experience as possible and their
mobile devices receive signals from multiple network sources
running on different standards. LTE is the upgrade path from
existing 3G GSM networks and will spawn a new generation of
wireless services such as high definition TV, mobile video
conferencing and the streaming of music, gaming and video services.
It is vital that network equipment manufacturers and service
providers are prepared for this development and are able to launch
compelling, functional and profitable services which take full
advantage of their investment in LTE. Spirent Landslide with its
services-centric approach to network testing offers a solution that
provides unmatched end-to-end application testing across mobile
packet data networks, providing true QoE measurements for the key
application services like Web browsing, file transfer, streaming
voice and video, and other next generation services. Additionally,
with an IPSec accelerator card, Spirent Landslide now supports
increased throughput of encrypted data. For more information visit
http://www.spirent.com/go/landslide About Spirent Communications
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provider of integrated performance analysis and service assurance
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next-generation networking technology such as Internet telephony,
broadband services, 3G wireless, global navigation satellite
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including the world's largest equipment manufacturers, service
providers, enterprises and governments. Based in Sunnyvale, CA,
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