5G Test & Assurance

With operators around the world launching 5G MEC services, the question on everyone’s mind is “how low is the latency?” But really that’s just one of the questions we should be asking. We need to know what use cases will drive early adoption of MEC and whether 5G MEC latency is low enough for those use cases. Join latency experts Darius Singh, Principal Consultant at STL Partners, Stephen Douglas, Head of Market Strategy at Spirent, and Rich McNally, Sr. Director of Mobile Service Strategy at Spirent as they shed light on these critical questions with real-world measurements of 5G MEC and public cloud latency, and insightful analysis of the latency needs of emerging use cases.

As the demand for 5G and Wi-Fi 6 continues to grow at a rapid pace and their standards become increasingly entwined, there has never been a better time to look at the possibility of convergence between the two technologies.

Facebook produces some of the most popular websites and apps in the world. Their technologies empower over a billion people around the globe and a crucial enabler for this is their network of datacenters.

There is significant technology activity and research in 5G deployment beyond the urban center. One of the physical layers to achieve this is through Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellites. By providing widespread global access to high-bandwidth and low latency 5G data services, PNT could be significantly augmented further beyond today’s current techniques and approaches to drive improvements in V2X applications. Learn how in this [IWPC](https://www.iwpc.org/) webinar hosted by Spirent. Check out further [Ask the Expert webinars](https://www.spirent.com/home/ask-the-expert-webinars).

For mission-critical Industry 4.0 applications, even the smallest downtime is an absolute no-go. Learn how 5G and TSN systems work together to provide end-to-end seamless redundancy to increase the overall system availability and reliability.

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.