Landslide Core Network Testing

This whitepaper details a case study of how Telefonica uses Landslide to deliver enhanced automation with a 3x faster test and assurance process for ensured performance of 5G private networks.

Nothing in the 200-year history of the telecoms industry compares to the transformation taking place today as adoption of 5G and cloud technologies take off. The old ways of building, managing, and upgrading networks must be completely rethought to take full advantage of this change and to adapt to modern competitive realities. This vision paper introduces a new model, called Integration Operations (IntOps), designed to help telecommunication providers undergoing the transition to 5G. The paper offers both strategic and tactical insights around adoption of IntOps, the importance of continuous testing and why both are vital to fully realizing the potential of 5G. A ten-step process for onboarding IntOps is presented, along with proof-points around the benefits supported by expert input from Deutsche Telekom and Spirent.

We’re about to enter the era of 5G, with blazingly fast speeds, vast coverage density, large area traffic capacity, and super low latency. 5G is more than a step up from 4G; it’s a radical leap that will dramatically improve mobile broadband services and empower the Internet of Things (IoT) by enabling connectivity to billions of global devices. Most providers plan to take an evolutionary approach to 5G, starting with 4G evolved pack core (EPC) control / user plane separation (CUPS), then migrating to 5G non-standalone (NSA) and finally deploying full native 5G. Assuring a successful journey from 4G to native 5G will require the ability to test and assure every phase of the journey and every stage of the service lifecycle. Spirent Virtual Test Agents (VTAs) emulate network functions, devices and user activity so you can test and assure your evolution to 5G across the service lifecycle — from the lab to the production network. Our VTAs provide comprehensive support for 4G LTE, 5G NSA and native 5G. To learn more about assuring your evolution to 5G, please download our poster depicting 5G network functions to test and assure mobility networks and services.

The emergence of new mobile services such as voice over LTE (VoLTE) and the Internet of Things (IoT) is prompting mobile carriers to evaluate the future-readiness of their deployed infrastructure. 

Spirent's Landslide enabled creation of a 5G NSA PoC for a Korean wireless operator.