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Verifying 5G Network Slices Work as Planned
Assurance of optimal performance to empower essential use cases.
5G network slices deliver compelling market offerings, promising new revenue opportunities, accompanied by evolving complexity. Ensure exacting SLAs with state-of-the-art validation.
The mission-critical services 5G network slicing is expected to support, such as emergency services, public safety, smart cities, or autonomous cars, necessitate that service assurance be baked-in from the start. 5G network slicing also supports enterprises willing to pay a premium for priority services with service-level agreement (SLA) guarantees. Slicing is a complex, multi-domain network construct designed to achieve specific performance across a distributed packet core. Operators must plan how 5G networks will be sliced to meet customized performance needs in an expanding range of verticals.
The dynamic nature of network slicing means the network is continuously reconfigured to meet the ultra-low latency, bandwidth, and compute demands of specific applications. This creates significant network changes that continually occur in 5G networks. Stringent demand for SLAs of 5G slices require proof of adherence, with proactive analysis leading to rapid problem ID and resolution.
Missing the mark could mean SLA violations and regulatory fines that significantly impact revenues and issues that affect emergency and other mission-critical services. Ensure 5G slice performance with virtualized assurance and visibility to the network edge.
Automated Activation & Change Testing with SLA Monitoring
Testing conducted to assure services must be part of how the service is designed from the start. Dynamic network slice orchestration drives the need for automated activation and change testing, monitoring, and troubleshooting. To ensure the new slice will work after it is instantiated, Spirent’s 5G slice assurance solution deploys virtualized test functions (called Virtual Test Agents, or VTAs) to various nodes of the 5G slice. These VTAs emulate users, or other parts of the network, and perform tests on distributed network functions to ensure they will deliver the low latency or other critical performance needs of the end user.
Once the service is up and running, the entire network slice can be monitored to ensure SLAs and end-to-end performance requirements are continuously met. With network-aware service assurance from Spirent VisionWorks, performance promises and SLA adherence are validated by bringing the complex, dynamic, and abstract into view. Drawing from rich 5G experience, Spirent’s Managed Solutions team provides seasoned expertise to ensure the testing solution is implemented effectively for optimal results.
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