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Test multiplay just like your customers experience it

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Benefits

Spirent Multiplay

Multiplay Diagram

Stateful aware Layer 4-7 devices such as firewalls, server load balancers, and content aware caching devices have grown exponentially complex; containing thousands of queues, state tables, state aware rule validation and threat vulnerability mitigation. In addition, the end user demand for ultra high quality (such as the transition from SD IPTV to HD IPTV) and 99.999% availability with network mitigated threats have added further complexity to the network. Testing these next-generation systems requires unprecedented user realism while maintaining high scale.

Spirent's multiplay solution is unique because they provided the most comprehensive, accurate user emulation of end user traffic and unexpected attack traffic even while at high load. Simply put, Spirent can model the user behavior while scaling to full Internet levels. This “no compromise” approach is important since measuring the impact to the user and the network while loading the Device Under Test (DUT) with real-world loading patterns helps identify, isolate and resolve problems before your customer finds them.

Spirent’s advanced realism technology empowers the user to test true production network, in a reproducible, real-world, single pass test cycle.

Features

Spirent Multiplay

Network Equipment Manufacturer (NEM)

  • Enhanced Realism, The Key to Reproducing Customer Real-World Scenarios

    Spirent delivers enhanced realism by accurately replicating real world, multi-play environments based unique subscriber behavior patterns with multi-stack topology emulation and customer traffic generation (SAPEE). Unique to Spirent, this allows the Network Test Engineer to reproduce precise field scenarios and loading patterns, reducing time to resolution while helping better debug performance and system operational issues in a PV, POC, Engineering Service, or Field scenario.
  • Line Rate Stateful Traffic, Enhancing the Scope of “What If” Testing

    Spirent characterizes system performance and bandwidth utilization for full scale video deployments with peer-to-peer networking and voice applications by conducting stateful, line rate multi-play benchmark testing, while keeping each user highly real and stateful. Because the user does not have to compromise between realism be user and scale, the Network test engineers sees precisely how the Device Under Test (DUT) will react when faced with real-network conditions
  • Single Pass Testing, Reducing Cost even while Enhancing Value

    Spirent is the industry’s only multi-play solution to correlate multiple metrics in a single pass by testing latency, jitter and loss simultaneously. This allows for shorter, more detailed testing of the DUT.
  • Detailed Results Analysis, Find Problems Fast

    Spirent delivers intelligent results that quickly and accurately identify, isolate and help resolve multi-play traffic issues by generating up to 32,000 streams per port and full Stateful TCP that give greater visibility into the problem areas, even over Routing, Encryption, QoS/CoS, and tunneling. This allows you to setup and test core network conditions and rapidly predict how the DUT will handle almost any engineered architecture condition.
  • Industry Standard, From the Inventors of Ethernet Testing

    Spirent solutions are the industry standard for multi-play conformance, functional and performance analysis for and therefore used in for the large scale tests such as validating Cisco’s state-of-the-art Medianet solution. With a long history of innovation and company stability, Spirent can ensure long term partnerships to help advance your products to market.

Carrier / Service Provider

  • QoE and QoS, Testing the Foundations of the SLA

    For customers who need to accurately determine the network quality of service (QoS) or end user quality of experience (QoE), Spirent creates a real-world environment by delivering enhanced realism of the services offered on a multi-play network. This ensures that individual elements and end-to-end solutions will be thoroughly tested for not just uptime, but for service quality.
  • TCO and ROI, Improving your Network Service Profitability

    Spirent significantly reduces total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) by delivering a holistic portfolio to benchmark service performance across Layers 2 -7 at line rate. With a single platform and a converged User Interface, test even the most complex topologies with ease.
  • Cycle Time Reduction, Managing Test Quality Over Time

    Spirent reduces product development cycles while increasing test coverage by offering the most number of test cases with unsurpassed flexibility, increased functionality and ease of use through NoCode automation. This allows anyone to automate a test, even for regression.
  • Scalable at 10G, High Density Ethernet with Advanced Services

    For customers who are deliver multi-play, Spirent emulates millions of subscribers at 10Gig line rate for voice, video and data traffic streams by offering a highly scalable solution that validate the solutions prior to deployment. With Spirent Topology Emulation, the engineer can model multiplay QoE over BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, VPLS, MPLS, and EOAM enable networks.
  • 40/100G Ready, Built in Support for Next Generation Ethernet

    The award winning Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics modules not only provide enhanced realism with scalability and performance, it utilizes a 2.5ns architecture for compatibility of validating 40/100G.

Solution

Solution

  • High Performance Multiprotocol Multiplay Testing

    With the ability to test up to line rate 10 Gbps, Avalanche offers the highest degree of realism of any solution on the market allowing you to set up tests in your production environment at scale with unmatched Voice, Video, and Data. Using Avalanche, test true multi protocol interactions and with the SAPEE Advanced Protocol option, blend in almost any protocol including P2P BitTorrent, IM, SQL, or custom applications.

    Solution: Avalanche, GEM
  • High performance VoIP Core, Edge, and Media Gateway Testing with IMS

    With the award winning, industry standard Abacus product, users can emulate thousands of VoIP and POTS. Each call the PESQ MOS voice quality score can be measured showing the impact of the DUT on VoIP. In addition, IMS and Central office emulation allows users to measure and model Central Office and VoIP Core scenarios. This solution is perfect for emulating small to very complex media routing scenarios as seen in Carrier / Service provider networks.

    Solution: Abacus, GEM, DLS
  • High Performance Resiliency Testing for IDS, Firewall, and Network DUTs

    Based on award winning ThreatEx technologies, Spirent has the unique ability to generate billions of flows and over 160 Gbps of exploits from a mix of stateful exploit to more simple protocol fuzzing across the DUT State Queues. Based on a database that is updated with the latest attacks, test and verify your DUTs ability to mitigate threats. Unique to Spirent, embed threats in the middle of user session, allowing for "Man in the Middle" style attacks.

    Solution: Avalanche, GEM
  • P2P, BitTorrent, Gaming and IM Testing

    Spirent is the perfect platform for testing flood and burst technologies like P2P, BitTorrent, Gaming, and IM. Test multiple scenarios simultaneously like Torrent, Swarms, Trackers, Lechers, and Seeder, all simultaneously using Spirent SimUser technology. Unlike other solutions, stateful and stateless security exploits, Spam, and infected files can be combined. Whether directly managing P2P, IM and Gaming protocols or looking for meta characteristics, test with Spirent for accurate results.

    Solution: Avalanche, Spirent TestCenter
  • Firewall and Content Filtering

    Going beyond other solutions that use a simple traffic model, Spirent's mixes real-world, real-time blended multi protocol across the firewall switch fabric. With support of advanced features like the LoadSpec, Constraints and SimUser technology, the Network Engineer is empowered to test TCP loading, Queue and State Caching simulating production networks, under controlled high performance condition with reproducibility. Single Pass testing allows users to compress test times to be more productive.

    Solution: Avalanche, Spirent TestCenter
  • Server Load Balancer (SLB) Performance testing Including Adobe ™ Flash, Microsoft SilverLight ™ , Video and Web Controls

    Web SLBs must track the full state of each user and route according to rules. Spirent is unique in that it can completely emulate an E-Commerce style web transaction with full SSL and SessionID support. Further, as modern pages embed rich media and control, Spirent can statefully mix in controls like a real website would.

    Solution: Avalanche, Spirent TestCenter
  • Deep Packet Inspection and Resilency Testing

    Spirent provides the most robust solution simulating, scaling and analyzing the inspection engine of the individual elements of the network or the entire network. With the ability to statefully configure to nearly every Layer 2-7 attribute, scale to Internet levels to verify compliance. Mix this the Spirent Time Machine to capture weeks of traffic for fault isolation and analysis.

    Solution: Avalanche, Spirent TestCenter
  • IPTV / Advanced Video Testing for Enterprise and Service Providers

    The world's most advanced Video analysis system, Spirent video can test a wide range of test scenarios including video multicast performance, Video Perceived Quality and Lip-Sync. Spirent is the only solution to test the full HD Video over IP test Set. Combine this with Spirent Impairment with standards based tests (ITU-T G.1050) for complete network simulation.

    Solution: Avalanche, Spirent TestCenter, GEM
  • Multiplay over Access

    Full Multiplay testing including Voice, Video and Data over PPPoX, L2TP and ANCP technologies. Measure Video Quality, Score Web Page Load Time and utilize full debugging and scale. Blend this with Spirent GEM and DLS product to emulate the physical layer as well.

    Solution: Spirent TestCenter, GEM, DLS
  • Mobile Carrier Emulator with LTE, WiMAX, IMS and Multiplay

    Spirent Landslide provides Test Engineers the ability to architect an entire Mobile VoIP Core, with full IMS and Multimedia, for in-depth, but repeatable testing. The Award winning Landslide product is by far the definitive standard for Mobility testing.

    Solution: Landslide
  • Spirent Wi-Fi Convergence Tester with TCP

    Testing Wi-Fi Convergence with data in scalable, in-depth solution. See how Spirent can allow you to test performance and scale of converge, while providing enough information to identify, isolate and resolve issues.

    Solution: Landslide
  • Support ServicesSupport Services Overview for Wireless, Networks & Applications, Positioning Technology and Service Assurance

White Papers

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  • Assuring QoE with over-the-top VideoThis paper provides guidelines for realistic measurement of end-user QoE for video OTT services using adaptive bit rate streaming.
  • Data Center Testing White PaperThis white paper aims to help network professionals understand the issues involved in data center validation and performance benchmarking.
  • EANTC: Testing Cisco's Mobile Core, Data Center and Business Services White PaperEANTC's testing team spent four weeks at Cisco's labs validating solutions presented to them. This white paper is the second feature highlighting the results of this test.
  • EANTC: Testing Cisco's Next-Generation Mobile IP Network SolutionHow do we get from today's voice-driven networks to tomorrow's heavily broadband-enabled solutions?
  • Testing MPLS-TP Deployments in the Mobile Backhaul WhitepaperThis white paper explores why MPLS-TP is now emerging at this stage in the convergence journey, the applicability of MPLS-TP in the mobile backhaul and access networks and the importance of testing new MPLS-TP deployments.
  • Network Test: 10 Essential Benchmarks for High-Performance Data CentersThis in depth white paper from Network Test covers 10 test sets that should be a mandatory part of any comprehensive evaluation of data center switching. It also describes the less-than-ideal practices that should be avoided.
  • The Risk of Inadequate Network TestingIn many organizations, testing the network infrastructure is at best neglected and at worst completely overlooked. This situation persists despite the serious implications to productivity, profitability, liability, and even reputation.
  • The Big Data RevolutionBig data has emerged as one of the most visible topics in technology today. As with other trends such as mobile, social and cloud computing, big data represents both business opportunities and technical challenges.
  • Wi-Fi Offload—Is Your Gateway Ready?As consumers and business users increase their use of mobile broadband and IP services, carrier mobile networks can’t always keep up.
  • Spirent Journal of Access and Edge PASS Test MethodologiesThis Spirent Catalog of Test Methodologies represents an element of the Spirent test ecosystem that helps answer the most critical Performance, Availability, Security and Scale Tests (PASS) test cases.
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Documents

  • Spirent VQA Detailed Real-Time IPTV Analysis System DatasheetSpirent's VQA is a comprehensive Real-Time IPTV Analysis System allowing NEMs and Service Providers to assess hundreds of metrics related to delivering high quality IPTV.
  • Spirent TestCenter Application Layer Protocol SolutionSpirent’s Application Layer Protocols are real applications creating and measuring
    application response, and provide performance analysis for Layer 2-7.
  • Spirent TestCenter Hardware and Base Package MatrixHardware and Base Package Matrix for Spirent TestCenter.
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