Empowered Networks

Overview

Empowered provides Application Layer Testing Solutions, to help you:

• Optimize applications and services – Test for optimal performance, interoperability and conformance with the RFC’s and industry standards that matter
• Verify performance, functionality and reliability of new hardware, software and integrations, to ensure service stability, performance, and end customer satisfaction
• Find system limits and constraints, determine where and how to optimize end-to-end performance, and confirm changes have only positive impacts
• Ensure bandwidth-hungry applications don’t disrupt revenue-generating voice and video
• Confirm time-sensitive applications remain resilient under load, with impairments and congestion, and under security attack
• Ensure management functions – CDR and billing records, SNMP counters, provisioning functions – provide accurate, reliable status, information and statistics
• Find and fix design flaws and problems early in the release cycle – Reduce Customer Found Problems, development and support costs, and protect customer confidence

Products

Our Application Testing Offerings include:

• Spirent Avalanche and focuses on the applications and services that ride over Service Provider networks, including legacy and packet Voice & Telephony, Video and IPTV including multicasting and related control plane mechanisms
• Spirent Avalanche helps you emulate the application layer traffic of massive numbers of web users, with characteristic mixes of applications layer traffic, including HTTP, email, streaming media and other applications
• Spirent Abacus helps you test voice and unified communications over PSTN and IP networks, with precise control of control plane mechanisms, and analysis of voice quality metrics
• Spirent’s IPTV Test Package helps you test Video and IPTV, including multicasting and related control plane mechanisms, and scalable analysis of Video Quality
• Spirent Avalanche and Spirent Landslide help you test security and authentication mechanisms that control access, remote access, billing and related functions

Related Offerings

• Our Lab Realism Offerings help you emulate network links, and test the impacts of changes in network paths, failover to remote Data Centers and DR sites, and simulate real world networks and extremes of negative testing, with precision and repeatability, and the impacts of malware, denial of service and related security attacks on authorized and valid traffic
• Our Network Monitoring Offerings enable visibility, monitoring, diagnostics and analysis of the packets flowing across enterprise and service provider networks, and advanced solutions for linking test and monitoring tools to any traffic on the network 
• Our Network Testing Offerings enable full line rate testing of 1/10/40/100 Gbit/s Ethernet, with stateful application layer protocol traffic over emulated network topologies
• Our Data Center Testing Offerings help you optimize the performance, availability, security and scalability of applications running on physical and virtual servers, and their interconnections to storage, networks and related data center infrastructure.
• Our Test Automation Offerings include advanced solutions for managing lab processes and equipment, managing test execution and results analysis, and for automating test cases
• Our Security & Forensics Offerings extend network performance and security surveillance with real-time detection and alerting, and “back-in-time” forensics and analysis

Empowered Value-Add

Empowered has a solid track record of success in helping our customers find and fix defects in the lab, before they impact production networks, preserving brand image, and avoiding costly customer churn.  Our Experts in Testing combine advanced skills and training with real-world experience.

Empowered can help you:

• Research testing requirements, standards and methodologies, and align these with your requirements, and metrics for success
• Assess the testing assets and processes you have in place
• Understand your available options to verify that your applications and services will perform in the real world, and satisfy real customers
• Lay out the business case for any required investments
• Select the right solutions to address your priority needs, and budget
• Build and maintain testing expertise within your team, or as a flexible, outsourced service to supplement your team
• Support you all the way, with the coaching, integration and automation assistance you need to get started, and achieve your goals

Trust Empowered to help you architect, implement and integrate your testing lab to match your needs and budget, and help your success in your marketplace.