Spirent Communications Plc
Spirent Communications plc is a global leader in test and measurement products and services.
The world’s leading organisations rely on Spirent’s solutions and expertise to evaluate the performance of their applications, products and network services – because no other company can offer stringent application testing in a realistic network context, embracing any combination of Local Area, Wide Area, fixed line and wireless access scenarios.
From wireline to wireless to satellite, Spirent offers a complete portfolio of solutions to enhance user and customer Quality of Experience. They enable today’s communication ecosystem as well as tomorrow’s emerging enterprises to deploy life-enriching communication networks, devices, services and applications.
Sectors that rely on Spirent testing include: financial services, cloud service providers, major equipment vendors, operators, government organisations and the military.
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BROAD INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
Spirent is recognised worlwide for its expertise in next-generation communication networks, devices and applications, and their engineers are chosen to advise many of the leading communication standards organisations. They provide the equipment, training and test methodology to help many of the leading technology labs and forums evaluate the performance of emerging technologies.
Spirent pioneered the testing of Ethernet networks, IP Telephony and VoIP, VPNs, TriplePlay, 2G and 3G wireless, and Location Based Services. Today, they are helping to test the first deployments of high-speed Ethernet, next-generation Internet , 4G wireless and IPv6 networks in Asia, Europe and North America.
Areas of expertise include:
- Enterprise Networks: load testing, system performance, network security
- Convergence: VoIP, IP VPNs, IPTV
- Broadband Networking: DSL, Gigabit Ethernet, and IP
- Next-Generation Internet: IPv6
- Wireless: CDMA, UMTS, Location Based Services and LTE
- Satellite Navigation: GPS, GLONASS, Galileo
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SPIRENT – THE LEADERS IN WEB APPLICATION TESTING
Spirent’s expertise is utterly critical to the performance and QoE (quality of experience) offered by cloud-based applications. Other solutions exist, offering sophisticated application testing, but only Spirent solutions take into account the complexities of the web environment and its potential impact on the service.
Whether it is the Pizza Restaurant remote ordering system, an Inland Revenue Tax Return, or BBC’s iPlayer, the application needs to serve any combination of multiple users across a range of access technologies – including broadband business connection, home ADSL, GSM, WiFi – each with their own protocols, speeds and typical user behaviour profiles.
Unless your test scenario can emulate such a complex mix of protocols and user behaviours, you cannot be certain how the application will perform across the web.
With Spirent these ”real life” test scenarios are not only possible, but made easy by a simple graphical user interface, enabling rapid creation of complex and realistic everyday usage models as well as extreme crisis test conditions – without any specialist scripting skills.
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SPIRENT SOLUTIONS FOR WEB APPLICATION TESTING
Two factors are key to realistic web application testing – user emulation and network empairment emulation.
Spirent Network Impairment Emulators bring the realism of live network conditions into the lab. They enable testers to accurately create the whole range of actual and possible delays and impairments that occur over live networks.
Spirent Ethernet Network Emulators are essential for validating and evaluating new products and technologies. Examples include testing multimedia products and services, storage networks, circuit emulation services, Timing over Packet, disaster recovery, data center moves, mobile/wireless infrastructure, WAN and TCP acceleration and multi-play applications.
Spirent Avalanche appliances generate the most realistic possible emulation of large user populations for application, web services and content delivery testing. Any combination of users, access technologies, and applications can be easily programmed via a point and click graphical interface – specifying such variables as connections, transactions and sessions per second – then multiplied to emulate massive traffic conditions. Real time performance statistics are presented and summarised into customised test reports.
Spirent Avalanche Virtual is the Industry’s only “all-in-one” cloud testing solution designed to test and measure the Performance, Availability, Security and Scalability (PASS) of virtualized network infrastructures and of applications deployed in the cloud. A software solution that resides in virtualized data center environments, Spirent Avalanche Virtual lets enterprises and cloud service providers measure the impact of large-scale cloud-based application deployments against their expected quality of experience.
Realistic testing based on flexible impairment and usage programming is the only way to ensure a fully developed solution and an increase in quality of experience for the user.
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CONTACT DETAILS
Daryl Cornelius
T: +44(0)7834752083
E: Daryl.Cornelius@spirent.com
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