Spirent’s Triple-Play solution is an integrated suite that gives service providers the visibility they need to ensure high quality services.
Converged IP networks enable service providers to offer voice, video and data services over infrastructures originally deployed for a single service. But delivering multiple services over a medium that is optimized for only one presents significant maintenance challenges. Effective service assurance solutions are key to ensuring customer satisfaction in the very competitive consumer voice, video, and data marketplace.
What to Test
Service providers should perform the following operations on their converged networks:
- Performance Monitoring—verify that service levels are being met and troubleshoot when they are not
- On-Demand Testing—troubleshoot specific streams, and perform data and VoIP analysis
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 testing
- Network Analysis—understand the cause of network performance problems
Spirent Solutions
Spirent’s Triple-Play Solution provides service providers with the visibility they need to ensure high quality services regardless of the delivery media. It is an integrated suite of hardware and software solutions that includes:
- SmartSight Central—an Ethernet and converged network operations support system that provides service readiness testing, rapid trouble resolution, and SLA validation and historical performance views.
- SmartSight IPMax—a services test unit purpose-built for the Fiber-to-the-Node (FTTN) environment. It allows service validation testing prior to customer handover, providing quick trouble identification and sectionalization when maintenance is required.
- SmartSight vScout—the video performance solution that provides the capabilities service providers need to ensure that services meet or exceed the subscriber’s expectations during the entire service life cycle, including installation, activation, turn-up, acceptance, and on-going maintenance.
- Tech-X Flex—the field test solution that enables telco and cable providers to qualify service, and troubleshoot transport and service-related issues within the consumer’s home and the outside plant.
