To validate your solution, your test bed must reproduce the complexity and scale of real networks.
The migration to LTE and the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) involves lots of large numbers. By mid-decade, mobile data traffic will explode to 40 times the top numbers from the last decade, mobile video 60 times - millions of subscribers aggregated into thousands of nodes passing terabytes of data packets and millions of control plane messages per second.
The solutions that effectively integrate 2G, 3G, 3.5G and 4G into a converged mobile broadband network will successfully deliver against the key vectors of mobile user Quality of Experience (QoE): speed, connection quality, and application performance.
This means a shift from assessing and validating subscriber scale and voice QoE to assuring content-aware data performance at line rate, avoiding any hidden surprises in the new AnyG network.
Will your network:
- Process millions of calls during activation, deactivation and hand-off?
- Deal with mobility events without dropping calls or data?
- Deliver optimized response times, low latency and low packet loss to support the full range of differentiated services?
- Scale to meet the anticipated capacity and performance expectations of millions of subscribers?
- Sustain high quality of service with redundancy and high availability?
The AnyG wireless network supports tiered, monetized services through a complex mix of voice, video, text, web traffic, email, gaming and presence applications. To validate your solution, your test bed must reproduce the complexity and scale required to deliver those services with high QoE. 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.
