Spirent TestCenter Live provides an end-to-end view of the network and application performance.

Connecting mobile users to applications and cloud services leaves gaping holes in traditional service assurance models. This fragmented view of the mobile user experience is unacceptable.

Without visibility from the RAN to the cloud, communications service providers are forced to learn about quality of service issues from their customers. Today’s mobile network operators need real-time, end-to-end application performance monitoring—from the mobile device to a cloud-based application server.

What to Test

Network operators can acquire visibility for service assurance by performing the following operations from the mobile device:

• Passive monitoring—collect the following measurements and statistics:
• Radio network context—Cell ID, Bearer, Location Area Code (LAC), RSSI and GPS location
• Data and voice service status—data connection state and cellular service state
• Passive monitoring of network traffic—TCP monitoring of retransmission
• Passive application monitoring—passive measurement based on application usage on device
• Controllable active tests to gather the measurements and statistics—DNS, TCP throughput, HTTP performance, UDP Loss, latency, jitter, throughput

Spirent Solutions 

• Spirent TestCenter Live leverages hardware probes and client software applets to provide an end-to-end view of the network and application performance—one that starts in the RAN and is segmented to include the backhaul, core and cloud environments
• Spirent TestCenter Live has an expanded hardware-based probe platform that includes Layer 1-3 and Layer 4-7 visibility, providing a strategic view of the backhaul and into the packet core and data centers. This expanded visibility provides the ability to quickly identify the source and location, or service-impacting issues during service turn up, day-to-day performance monitoring and troubleshooting efforts