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March 2, 2004
Spirent Communications Announces Scalable Next-Generation GPRS
Test System
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Spirent Communications ™ announced today a test
solution that will assist network equipment manufacturers and service
providers in the roll out of next generation wireless networks.
Spirent’s GPRS Performance Test System SE is the first carrier-scale
solution that can test and measure equipment performance benchmarks
and validate system scalability. It also can measure call set-up
performance and automate regression testing. The product was developed
with Spirent’s partner, Scientific Software Engineering Inc. (SSE), a
leading provider of software-based telecommunications products.
Spirent’s GPRS Performance Test System SE is built on the company’s
Mobility 2500 test platform. It is the only system to combine GPRS
Tunneling Protocol (GTP) control and data plane traffic within a
single consolidated test application. For Service Providers, the
product can identify performance ceilings, facilitate vendor
selections and enable accurate capacity planning.
"We are glad to be getting a test tool like this for our lab, so that
we can perform industry benchmarking tests for scaling GPRS networks,"
said Carsten Rossenhövel, managing director at EANTC AG - European
Advanced Networking Test Center, an independent test lab based in
Berlin, providing conformance, performance and interoperability tests
for manufacturers and service providers. "There is a real need in the
industry to understand how real next generation wireless networks will
be behave at their capacity limits. With all the demand for 2.5G and
3G services and competition for those customers, performance can be a
key metric to create subscriber demand and retention."
Spirent’s GPRS Performance Test System SE has a wide range of
protocols and emulation packages. It can simulate next generation
GPRS, EDGE and UMTS mobile traffic loads, capabilities that address
the critical need for accurate and repeatable benchmarks and for
identifying capacity capabilities. The GPRS Performance Test System SE
application can establish 32,000 GTP tunnels per second. It scales up
to 12 million simultaneous GTP tunnels. Additionally, GPRS can emulate
real mobile subscribers, performing activations, handoff,
connection-oriented bearer traffic, session deactivations, and provide
detailed statistics and diagnostics report on each.
"Our new GPRS Performance Test System SE expands the company’s
wireless test solutions, including integrated wireline and wireless
solutions," said Mark Fishburn, vice president of technical strategy
of Spirent Communications. "With the rapidly growing next generation
wireless market, this latest testing innovation will help our
customers expedite their time to market and enable faster adoption and
mass deployment of 3G services."
The GRPS Performance Test System SE will be available early Q2 2004.
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