By Gail Ferreira, Product Marketing Manager at Crossbeam, and Chris Chapman, Technical Marketing Engineer at Spirent

Crossbeam and Spirent recently partnered with EANTC, an internationally recognized test center, and Heavy Reading analyst Gabriel Brown to define and emulate the most realistic real-world conditions within mobile networks, and evaluate the performance of Crossbeam X80-S as a network security device under these demanding conditions.

Joint post by Gail Ferreira, Chris Chapman & Ankur Chadda

What do you look at to size a network solution, to make sure that it has adequate capacity for your network? What measurements should you focus on when evaluating the capacity of a component in a network?

I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s a mobile internet revolution going on. The signs are all there: a rapid increase in the number of mobile subscribers, the number of devices those subscribers use, and the type and quantity of content and services those subscribers want.