Design, Build, Test and Deploy with Confidence

As Ethernet expands its deployment as the low cost, high data rate communication solution of choice, the question of whether to invest in Ethernet has become how to transition to Ethernet as soon as possible.

This demand is critical in Data Centers, Mobile Core and Mobile Backhaul. Data rates and bandwidth needs are growing exponentially due to Cloud Computing and the Mobile Internet.

The migration to Ethernet will be more acutely felt in the service provider space, while not disrupting existing services. And importantly, real-world testing of designs and deployments is a vital piece of migration alongside effective service assurance on live networks.

See What Industry Leaders say About Spirent

• Alcatel-Lucent to test its FP3 400G network processor
• Cisco to conduct performance benchmark tests for the Cisco Nexus® 3548
• Juniper Networks to validate 1536 ports of 10GbE on the QFabric™
• NTT Communications Corporation and Internet Initiative Japan to conduct Japan’s first 100G Ethernet IXP interoperability test

Legacy of Testing Innovation

Since the 1990s, Spirent has been offering Ethernet performance testing solutions helping equipment manufacturers and service providers understand the performance of their products and services. Two decades of experience are now incorporated into our flagship platforms—Spirent TestCenter and Spirent TestCenter Live.

Spirent TestCenter

The only integrated platform for conformance, functional and performance testing of the latest technologies, Spirent TestCenter has support from 10Meg to 100G Ethernet and virtualization. With the ability to emulate the traffic found on networks today—up to millions of users—Spirent TestCenter offers unmatched realism to test the most demanding scenarios. 
Learn more about Spirent TestCenter

Ethernet Testing Platform of Choice

Spirent is the platform used by the leading equipment manufacturers and service providers today. While their performance tests and results are proprietary, there is a wealth of public test results available from independent labs.

Read about these labs and the tests they conducted at Tested with Spirent.

Test Reports

Cisco Nexus 3548 Switch Performance Validation
Cisco, in partnership with Spirent, conducted performance benchmark tests for the Cisco Nexus® 3548 Switch in the Spirent Proof of Concept (SPOC) Lab. The testing focused on evaluating the switch performance with various traffic profiles and Cisco® NX-OS Software features up to and including the most stressful testing conditions.