Multiplay environments are complex. Everything can affect everything else.
As the numbers of Internet users and mobile subscribers increase, so does the popularity of bundled offerings. But multiplay environments are complex. Everything can affect everything else. Validating each application and protocol individually does not indicate how they will perform when deployed together. In order to ensure that multiplay environments will provide an adequate quality of experience, the test bed must realistically reproduce the complexity and scale of the production network.
What to test
Performance testing for multiplay environments should validate:
- Bandwidth management—through quality of service policies per subscriber per service
- Quality of experience (QoE) metrics—for high-bandwidth, drop- and delay-sensitive applications
- Scalability—of content delivery to thousands of users
- Ability to address and authenticate sessions—for thousands of multiplay subscribers
- Conformance—to SLA quality levels across business customers
Spirent Solutions
Spirent’s multiplay testing solutions allow service providers to validate application performance:
