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2022 Device Threat Report 

The Testing Landscape to Assure the 5G Core SA

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Accelerating Private Networking 

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The global rollout of 5G, growing availability of edge computing, and enhanced automation offers enterprises of all sizes, government, academic institutions, and more, the prospect of unprecedented agility and control through Private Networks. The ability to tailor the network to specific application environments offers a compelling value proposition. However, the many technologies (e.g., 5G, 4G/LTE, Wi-Fi, etc.), deployment models, commercial models, and vendors, necessitate a rethinking of Service-Level Management and the testing strategies required to achieve those new capabilities. Enterprises must enforce not only performance KPIs, but availability and security as well.

Private Networks promise unprecedented agility and control; the many technologies deployment models, however, necessitate a rethinking of Service-Level Management and the testing strategies required to achieve those new capabilities.

Developing Achievable SLAs for 5G Private Networks

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As budgets tighten and complexity intensifies, the new generation of 5G technology demands new investments and strategies. Companies are forced to rethink whether the traditional validation model still works for them. They ask: “Is testing a core competency?”

Comprehensive testing for next-gen 5G environments, the solution develops and executes automated test suites to drive issue resolution with CSP vendors until the technology is ready for live deployment.

Test as a Service for 5G – Portfolio Overview

Leverage a library of automated test cases developed and maintained by 5G and security experts to speed 5G core test, validation, and security.

Get immediate access to 5G core tests for compliance, capacity, performance, and security with Spirent’s industry-leading L5AP core test and automation.

5G Core Automation Platform - L5AP

Leverage 5G expertise and automation to speed 5G core validation

5G Core Automation Platform

The latest trends spotted at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2023 note a closer integration between the network and the new mobile experiences. Insights on Open API initiatives, new consumer monetization use cases, intensifying sustainability priorities, developments in O-RAN, and a special spotlight on private networks are included.

The latest trends at MWC Barcelona 2023 note a closer integration between the network and the new mobile experiences, with a spotlight on Private Networks. 

MWC Barcelona Eyes 5G Revenue Potential

MWC Barcelona Eyes 5G Revenue Potential but Roadmaps Still Fuzzy

5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) services are moving quickly to the forefront as operators position themselves to support latency-sensitive enterprise use cases. But today, a disconnect exists between what performance end user customers believe applications will require, and the performance levels network operators are actually preparing to deliver.

Report: Cutting Through the Edge Computing Hype

Cutting Through the Edge Computing Hype

Market leaders are accelerating 5G Core deployments for new service offerings, greater agility, and lower costs, with lowering costs a major driver. Learn more on how the 5G Core has a role to play in lowering costs for service providers and how testing fosters that objective.

Market leaders and service providers are accelerating 5G Core deployments for new service offerings, greater agility, and lower costs, fostered by testing.

Don't Be Left Behind on the Move to the 5G Core

If the excitement of Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2019 illustrated any key lesson, it’s that 5G is intensifying the rate of digital transformation for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) as they respond to challenges on multiple fronts: They must c

Automated assurance is pivotal to assuring fast digital transformation and 5G is intensifying that rate for CSPs. Spirent's 5G test automation can help.

5G Transformation & Automated Assurance

The 5G Transformation Needs Automated Assurance Now!

5G brings amazing new services and revenue models—but only if you can navigate the complexity that comes with it. Learn how over-the-air active testing at the network edge can help.

Spirent’s Mobile Test Platform Extends Active Testing and Assurance Over the Air

Latency and gaming experience are quickly rising in prominence for 5G benchmarking. Service providers (SPs) need unbiased and industry-recognized evidence to validate their mobile network’s performance. Learn how benchmarking validates the user experience against the competition to verify marketing claims and identify areas for service optimization.

Service providers need qualified benchmarking of mobile network performance to win in the critical markets of gaming and other latency-sensitive applications.

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The Importance of Benchmarking for Gaming and Other Latency-Sensitive Applications in 5G

5G is finding its groove and not a moment too soon. There is pressure to produce revenue growth. An eye on restraining and even lowering costs wherever possible. Impatience for delivery on promises. Most importantly, there is substantial progress on a number of fronts.

The Spirent 2023 5G Report

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NTT DOCOMO Selects Spirent for O-RAN Ecosystem Testing 5G Core - emulation at the heart of O-RAN compliance, performance, and interoperability testing

NTT DOCOMO Selects Spirent for O-RAN Ecosystem Testing

Private networking is a powerful alternative to traditional enterprise wide area networks (WANs) where research forecasts it will reach USD7.7 billion by 2027. A market survey of prospective enterprises performed by STL Partners reveals that security and network resiliency are key drivers motivating enterprises to consider private networking. Service level management (SLM) is especially critical because private networking directly enables enterprise business outcomes which are impacted by network performance and service-level agreement (SLA) compliance.

Spirent has observed firsthand how private networking’s network resiliency requirements, complexity, and risk thresholds are introducing new dynamics as:


Private Networking is a vital trending alternative to WANs, with forecasts of USD7.7 billion by 2027. For assured success, extensive testing is required throughout the private networking lifecycle which are described in the report.

Accelerating Private Networking Value Creation

Services like network slices, private networks, edge services, Voice over New Radio (VoNR), autonomous networks require a quantum leap of vendors to make them all possible. This means faster and frequent multi-vendor releases. New testing models are required to keep pace with the accelerating pace of technology evolution.

New services like network slices and autonomous networks require frequent multi-vendor releases. New testing models are need for the rapid technology evolution.

Don’t Stand Alone: Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone (Part One)

Don’t Stand Alone, Part One: Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone

Greater technology complexity, growing supplier diversity, and shortened innovation and upgrade cycles are defining next-gen network deployments. Operators, network vendors, government entities and large enterprises are all bracing for change. DevOps practices of continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) are now part of every successful strategy. 


Spirent's vision for delivering automated continuous test and monitoring solutions constructed from a consistent set of network emulation, traffic generation and automation building blocks to cover the needs of the entire lab-to-live lifecycle.

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Automated service assurance with end-to-end network visibility and customizable deep analytics for the world’s most complex networks

Pinpoint and resolve end-user experience issues to enable network automation for 5G, SD-WAN, cloud & Ethernet.


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Pinpoint and resolve end-user experience issues

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Mobile devices must be independently certified before their deployment on the network. Learn about applying proven best practices and testing criteria to deliver actionable results that help find, triage, and address the root causes of poor user experience before launch, and protect your brand in the process.

Mobile devices must be certified using best practices and testing criteria to find and address the root causes of poor user experience.

Mobile Device Certification, Network Deployment

Mobile devices must be independently certified using proven best practices and testing criteria to find and address the root causes of poor user experience before launch on the network.

The Critical Need to Certify Mobile Devices Before Network Deployment

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This report showcases the widespread threats a range of organizations face with IoT (Internet of Things) devices, and cites the top threats discovered in 2022 by Spirent SecurityLabs. These vulnerabilities were identified with state-of-the-art testing programs and validated by their extensive industry-recognized experience and credentialed certifications in security testing. 

Device areas of testing. A range of IoT devices have different testing requirements for security assurance. They include the following categories:
- Device networks
- Device application, API, and cloud
- Device hardware
- Device mobile interface


Spirent SecurityLabs’ years of experience in testing a range of environments, along with Spirent’s industry-leading expertise and certifications in device penetration testing, offer an overview of 2022’s top device vulnerabilities.

2022 Device Threat Report

__Customer Profile.__ A Tier 1 mobile operator, in transition to 5G, sought to deploy a 5G core in a multi-vendor cloud environment to enable faster innovation and position its 5G offerings favorably for the future.

__New requirements for rapid CNF validation.__ The operator’s testing of previous generation networks had been focused on validation of collections of network functions in well-defined physical network elements. With the shift to the 5G core and its cloud native architecture, these monolithic network elements must now give way to individual cloud-native network functions (CNFs) that may be deployed in traditional centralized locations or closer to the network edge to enhance performance.


A Tier 1 mobile operator, in transition to 5G, sought to deploy a 5G core in a multi-vendor cloud environment and required robust CNF validation to ensure rapid innovation.

Accelerating 5G Innovation with TaaS

Learn how our solutions for Open RAN could benefit your business.

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As new standalone cores roll out, 5G is fully embracing the cloud. Early movers have many lessons learned, but one critical takeaway is that the cloud breaks 5G testing as we know it. Traditional manual validation testing simply can't keep up with the constant stream of releases of cloud-native functions and compute and connectivity infrastructure across an expanded set of 5G vendors. Join our team of experts, Heavy Reading Principal Analyst, Ruth Brown, Spirent Head of Strategy, Steve Douglas, and Spirent VP of Global Business Solutions, Chris O'Loughlin, as they explain why 5G is disrupting traditional testing and share how 5G leaders are adopting automation and "as a service" models to reinvent testing for the 5G cloud. 


5G is disrupting traditional testing and experts share how 5G leaders are adopting automation and "as a service" models to reinvent testing for the 5G cloud.

Overcoming 5G Standalone Delays to Deliver New Revenue

5G is here – at long last. But arriving is not synonymous with complete. The costs involved in bringing 5G to the market have been immense. Basic 5G service revenues are not enough to justify this massive investment. The 5G ecosystem of service providers and network and device vendors is now pivoting to 5G Standalone to layer on value-added services and deliver on 5G’s promise to grow revenues. 

Backed by case studies from our cutting-edge work with Rakuten Mobile, DISH, Telefónica and other 5G leaders, this eBook provides the background you’ll need to adjust your test and assurance practices to keep pace with 5G Standalone’s modern architecture.

5G Standalone and the Race for New Revenue

A new testing model is required to keep pace with the accelerating pace of 5G Standalone (SA) technology evolution to manage faster and more frequent multi-vendor releases. This involves leveraging DevOps and continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) processes to achieve continuous test (CT) and ultimately continuous monitoring (CM).

A new continuous testing model leveraging DevOps and CI/CD is required to keep pace with the accelerating pace of 5G standalone technology evolution.

Don’t Stand Alone: Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone (Part Two) 

Don’t Stand Alone, Part Two: Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone

Don’t Stand Alone: Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone (Part Two)

Spirent’s Open RAN test solutions deliver the performance and flexibility required to support evolving O-RAN technologies. They can help global operators and equipment manufacturers provide the best possible user experience with the highest levels of assurance that their networks and devices are ready for commercial rollout with optimal performance to drive business outcomes. Review the latest developments in thought leadership and the need for real-world comprehensive testing.

Spirent Knows Open RAN

Testing Open RAN

A Closer Look at Testing Open RAN

For the next wave of gaming, top gaming platforms plan to invest over $50 billion into games, metaverses and technologies, redefining immersive play. Video quality will quadruple data rates. Active gamers are expected to require 300 megabytes per hour, for far more hours than today. Learn the critical validation questions that must be accounted for today, to address the challenges of tomorrow.

The next wave of gaming won’t wait for 5G networks to be perfect. Our 5G network testing will help ensure a consistent gaming quality of experience.

5G Gaming Experience, 5G Network Testing

The next gaming wave will quadruple video quality data rates. Active gamers will need 300 megabytes per hour. Validation must keep pace, ahead of the curve. 

Gaming Is Gearing Up to Take a Big Byte Out of Networks

The diversity of services and new 5G infrastructure demand greater operational flexibility and autonomy.  Operators must engineer their networks to provide the best possible experience and performance, working agilely to deploy new, desirable services.

Operator Survey: 5G Services Require Network Automation

A modular solution that reconfigures for complete end-to-end testing to individual component O-RAN testing

Test Solutions

Test Solutions to Ensure O-RAN Works

A new testing model is required to keep pace with the accelerating pace of 5G standalone (SA) technology evolution to manage faster and frequent multi-vendor releases. Drawing from a range of over 2,600 5G engagements, Spirent’s proven and comprehensive testing strategy has evolved in pace with 5G technology.

Spirent’s comprehensive testing strategy for 5G standalone technology draws from over 2,600 5G engagements and has evolved in pace with 5G technology.

Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone (Part Three)

Don’t Stand Alone, Part Three: Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone

Don’t Stand Alone: Overcome the Challenges of 5G Standalone (Part Three)

Comprehensive Open RAN testing that navigates through the challenges and ever-changing landscape to deliver unparalleled results and reveal boundless opportunities.

Open RAN Test & Assurance

 Comprehensive, vendor-neutral testing to realize the promise of Open RAN.

Open RAN Testing

Network Slice Security

The costs involved in bringing 5G to the market have been immense. Basic 5G service revenues are not enough to justify this massive investment. Now service providers are moving with urgency to identify and deploy new services and use cases which can drive new revenue – Fixed Wireless Access, mobile and cloud gaming and private networks, to name a few. 


Backed by case studies from work with Rakuten Mobile, DISH, Telefónica and other 5G leaders, this eBook shares Spirent’s vision for a new generation of automated test and assurance that providers need to succeed in the coming race to revenue.

5G Testing for the Race to Revenue

A new era in the age of AI has begun. Rapidly increasing AI workloads, together with edge computing and cloud-based 5G networks, are putting extreme demands on modern data center networks. In particular, AI workloads are driving an unprecedented need for low latency, high bandwidth connectivity between servers, storage, and the GPUs essential for AI training and inferencing.

Hear data center networking experts Sameh Boujelbene and Aniket Khosla examine the impact of AI workloads, explain why adoption of high-speed Ethernet in data centers is surging, and discuss how to ensure HSE infrastructure will meet new demands.

Impact of AI Workloads on Modern Data Center Networks

The Impact of AI Workloads on Modern Data Center Networks

Survey: Increased Security and Resilience are Key Drivers for 5G Private Mobile Networks Adoption - rigorous testing is essential at every step of the 5G private network lifecycle

Survey: Increased Security and Resilience are Key Drivers for 5G Private Mobile Networks Adoption

In the very near future, gaming is set to explode in innovation and expanded user adoption, with use cases that will redefine networking requirements – challenging the promises of 5G, which is still rolling out. Learn the test and validation strategies for low latency edge that must be in place to make all this possible. 

Spirent's 5G assurance and 5G network testing and validation for low latency edge will protect multibillion-dollar investments in gaming infrastructure.

Gaming and 5G Assurance, 5G Network Testing

Gaming’s new innovations will redefine networking, challenging 5G capabilities, requiring smart strategies in test and validation for low latency edge.

With Gaming, Every Millisecond Matters

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Learn how network-aware service assurance can help prevent major disruptions in your 5G network

5G Network Disruptions Should be Rare & Brief

In a 5G World, Network Disruptions Should be Rare and Brief

While CI/CD is the objective for a growing number of organizations, it is important to account for the holistic process involved in accomplishing that goal. This includes the need for continuous test across the entire lab-to-live process. Learn the solution components to achieve that end.

The solution components for continuous test (CT) to achieve true CI/CD, including DevOps, Lab as a Service and Test as a Service.

Rethinking Testing: You Can’t Have CI/CD Without CT

With 5G adoptions widespread worldwide, the focus is shifting from setting up the new networks to enabling new revenues. Service providers, network equipment manufacturers, cloud service providers and device manufacturers all face different challenges in achieving the optimal advantage of 5G. Learn the emerging 5G testing strategies to achieve that.

With widespread 5G adoptions, new revenues is the focus. SPs, NEMS, and CSPs face different challenges. Learn testing strategies to gain 5G’s optimal advantage.

Keeping Pace with the 5G Race to Revenue

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Open RAN (O-RAN) buzz looms large. A sustained debate about viability rages on as the nascent, next-gen radio tech aims to establish firmer market footing. There have been trials around the world by operators of all sizes working with an expanding set of vendors. Interoperability plugfests continue as national testbeds are implemented and the earliest deployments get underway — each being scrutinized as key stakeholders seek to understand if Open RAN can actually deliver on its many promises.

Open RAN’s (O-RAN) open approach that seeks to diversify monolithic RAN supply chains represents an entirely new way of building networks.

Next-gen mobile technologies will set the stage for operators, communication service providers, and hyperscalers to make bold promises to their customers. Learn how virtual test agents gives visibility of the network edge to help keep those promises.

Active Service Assurance & SLA Promises

For Network Slicing, Active Service Assurance Can Help You Keep Your SLA Promises

Spirent is a vendor-neutral test expert that partners with our customers to overcome Open RAN’s unprecedented complexity. Our end-to-end and component test solutions streamline and automate validation workflows via an integrated, single user experience with real-time emulation to seamlessly expedite O-RAN adoption and deliver on expected cost and innovation benefits. Explore the challenges of testing O-RAN, best practices for ensuring success and details on Spirent’s portfolio of test solutions.