Service Providers are faced with the challenge of lowering operational costs while supporting a rich portfolio of services for their customers. This need is driving consolidation of networks onto Carrier Ethernet and MPLS-based technologies that enable mobile and fixed line voice and data, residential video, and MPLS-based VPNs. These services rely on a highly-scalable, reliable and operationally efficient infrastructure capable of supporting high Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for end customers.

Can your device or network:

• Maintain thousands of sessions with a high QoE for sensitive applications such as voice or video?
• Maintain thousands of MPLS tunnels with high forwarding performance while handling low priority traffic?
• Maintain service quality levels across all business customers as per service level agreements?
• Sustain high QoS with redundancy and high availability for mobile backhaul and mission critical applications?
• Use several protocols simultaneously to reliably deliver multicast video, voice, data and other services?

For those responsible for creating and delivering the highly complex networks of today and tomorrow, the challenges have never been greater. Validating the performance and reliability of the component protocols and functions discretely is no longer a valid predictor of behavior.

You need to know in advance how a device will perform in a real network by testing in a realistic environment, one that reproduces the complexity and scale it will encounter when deployed. Based on its function, a device may need to scale in number of ports, subscribers, sessions, VPN instances, routes, tunnels, VLANs and multi-play traffic while maintaining throughput performance, QoS, availability and security. If your test system can’t deliver this level of realism, you can’t have the assurance that the system will perform in a real network.