Spirent Communications plc today announced new functionality on the Spirent Anue 3500 to advance mobile backhaul and carrier Ethernet performance testing. With the addition of new timing, synchronization and time of day accuracy testing, service providers and equipment manufacturers are better prepared to validate the mobile backhaul networks deployed to support the new 4G/LTE services.

Spirent Communications today announced that several leading companies and government research organizations in the Asia Pacific region are using the Spirent VR5 HD Spatial Channel Emulator to test implementations of advanced MIMO beamforming. The Spirent VR5 emulates real-world radio conditions and identifies potential pitfalls of the antenna design in the mobile device before deployment.

Spirent Communications’ cloud computing testing solution has been selected to validate the performance of network designs created within the Junosphere Lab virtual environment, announced by Juniper Networks. Junosphere Lab, which enables the creation and modeling of networks and elements running the Juniper Networks Junos operating system, will include Spirent TestCenter Virtual to provide visibility into network infrastructures, as well as to...

Addressing the uncertainty surrounding cloud security is critical for large-scale adoption of cloud computing in enterprises. Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories (CHTTL), the research and development arm of Chunghwa Telecom, Taiwan’s largest network operator, clearly understands the need to ensure secure and reliable cloud services, and is relying on solutions from Spirent Communications to help validate the security of its cloud computing centers.

Spirent Communications today announced that its flagship test optimization product, Spirent iTest, has achieved ‘Ready for IBM Rational Software’ validation for its integrations with IBM Rational Quality Manager and IBM Rational Functional Tester. In addition, the Spirent iTest/Rational Quality Manager integration has achieved the ‘Ready for IBM Rational Best Practices Indicator’.

Sandvine has selected Spirent Communications to verify the performance of its network policy control solutions under mobile network conditions. With Spirent’s mobile core testing solution, Sandvine can ensure its Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) supports stringent mobile requirements such as high volumes of subscribers with dynamic IP traffic flows. Designed to emulate real-world 3G/LTE traffic models in the core network at mobile scale, Spirent’s...

Spirent Communications has won Test & Measurement World magazine’s 2011 Best in Test award for the Network and fiber-optic testers category. The award, based on votes from the magazine’s readers and editors, recognizes the Spirent TestCenter Mobile Backhaul solution for helping companies save costs and bring products/services to the market faster.

Spirent Communications has extended its cPacket Networks offering to include the cVu 120G, a 10G Ethernet intelligent data center monitor switch. These products work with Spirent’s performance monitoring and test & diagnostics solution –Spirent TestCenter Live. Together, the companies enable enterprises, particularly financial institutions to, monitor, analyze and manage network traffic to remain competitive and profitable.

Spirent Communications today demonstrated the industry’s first commercially-available test solution based on specifications from the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF). The demonstration, at Interop Las Vegas 2011 at Booth #733, marks an important milestone as it is the first time any test vendor has publicly shown generally available product that incorporate NTAF-based implementations.

Spirent Communications and Anue Systems today introduced a mobile backhaul testing solution designed to validate timing and synchronization as well as carrier Ethernet protocols including SyncE, IEEE 1588/PTPv2, and EthOAM. The new Spirent Anue 3500 provides carriers and network equipment manufacturers with a comprehensive test impairment and analysis platform for mobile backhaul.

Recent high-profile news, such as Amazon’s cloud outage and Sony’s security breach, has helped to fuel the growing concerns around cloud security and reliability. Addressing these concerns, along with the infrastructure performance and scale demands of cloud computing, presents a multi-dimensional testing challenge.

To enable enterprises to deliver superior network visibility and performance to virtualized data centers, Net Optics is testing its latest virtualized network monitoring tool with Spirent’s cloud computing and data center solution. Spirent enables the maker of intelligent monitoring access solutions to verify the performance, availability, security and scalability (PASS) of its Phantom Virtual Tap.

As LTE networks begin to gain popularity and wireless operators push the benefits of the technology to their subscribers, testing device performance has never been more important. Without taking the proper steps, the performance and quality of experience (QoE) associated with using new smartphones and other devices will suffer and reflect poorly on the device manufacturer and service provider.

Spirent Communications and Anue Systems today introduced a mobile backhaul testing solution designed to validate timing and synchronization as well as carrier Ethernet protocols including SyncE, IEEE 1588/PTPv2, and EthOAM. The new Spirent Anue 3500 provides carriers and network equipment manufacturers with a comprehensive test impairment and analysis platform for mobile backhaul.

China Mobile, China’s largest mobile operator has selected Spirent Communications to evaluate the performance of high density Fibre Channel Director Switches currently in its evaluation lab. Spirent’s Fibre Channel solution helps China Mobile ensure the superior scalability, performance and reliability of storage area networks (SAN) demanded by modern data centers.

Spirent announced today that Crossbeam Systems, the leading provider of next-generation security platforms for high-performance networks, has selected Spirent’s cyber network security solution to validate the performance of its latest X-Series network security platform. Crossbeam is using Spirent during a series of live multi-city technical briefings that allow security professionals to better understand how to simplify and scale security infra...

Spirent Participates in Ethernet Alliance Multi-Vendor Interoperability Demonstration, Speaks on Future of High Speed Ethernet at OFC/NFOEC 2011

Spirent Communications plc today announced its continued collaboration with EANTC for interoperability testing of MPLS and Ethernet networks.

Spirent Communications today introduced its next-generation solution for testing MIMO-based wireless base stations and mobile devices.

Spirent Communications, a leader in testing wireless networks, services and devices, and Bluetest AB, a leading supplier of reverberation test systems, today announced their collaboration to advance Over-The-Air (OTA) test methods for mobile devices. Through their collective research and development, these two industry leaders will dramatically improve the time and reduce the cost required to deliver a superior user experience to mobile subscribe...