Testing Solutions

Lab Realism

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Make your Test Bed more Real

Customer-Found Problems will cost you money and customers.  Evaluate and stress it in the Lab, before deployment. Ensure your solution will perform in the marketplace.  

Our Lab Realism Offerings cover these key areas:

Network Emulation

Test under expected – and unexpected – network conditions

Real Networks are not well behaved. They introduce errors. They go down. They drop packets or delay them, duplicate them or swap them around. And your solution has to work in spite of it.
Network Emulators simulate long-haul and worst-case conditions in the lab, so you can:

  • Accurately create the delays and impairments that happen in live networks,
  • Reduce Risk – Ensure systems will perform as expected on production networks
  • Test circuit emulation services, IEEE 1588/PTP, mobile/wireless infrastructure, multi-play and multimedia products, applications and services
  • Test disaster recovery, data center moves, storage networks, WAN and TCP acceleration
  • Record and replay conditions found on the live network in your test bed quickly – replicate problems for troubleshooting, save time and money on post-sale support  
  • Test with the same products used by the vast majority of NEMs, chipset vendors and service providers around the world – Ensure consistency of results
  • Network Impairment Models per TIA-921 and ITU-T G.1050, MEF-18, G.8261 Standards
  • Leverage Test Automation for accurate, repeatable, efficient regression testing

Access Emulation

Test to your customers’ last mile, in your Lab

Access links introduce crosstalk, RFI, impulse noise and white noise.  Ensure your solution will perform in the marketplace.  Evaluate and stress it against defined benchmarks.
Access Emulation products accurately reproduce last-mile conditions in the lab, so you can:

  • Simulate copper impairments, insertion loss, delay/phase and input impedance
  • Test impacts of crosstalk, RFI, impulse and white noise on modems and DSLAMs
  • Make sure high-bandwidth, low-loss, low-latency applications deliver at the last mile
  • Meet/exceed benchmarks for ADSL, ASDL2, ADSL2+, HDSL, HDSL2, HDSL4, SHDSL, ISDN, DSL, VDSL and VDSL2, to ATIS, Broadband/DSL Forum, ETSI and ITU-T standards
  • Test with the same products used by the vast majority of NEMs, chipset vendors and service providers around the world – Ensure consistency of results
  • Leverage Test Automation for accurate, repeatable, efficient regression testing

Routing Emulation

Emulate the Global Internet in your Lab

Multi-Service Core Routers are critical to the stability, performance and security of your networks, and your customers’ networks.  Pre-deployment testing avoids service impacting failures.
Emulate the routing dynamics of huge networks in the lab, so you can:

  • Test the impacts of downstream outages, route flaps, and other impairments
  • Verify operation of key unicast and multicast routing protocols, and stability of routing processes in multi-service routers
  • Prove that Virtual Private Networks stay private and secure, whatever happens
  • Make sure high-bandwidth, low-loss, low-latency applications get the QoS they need
  • Certify that hardware, firmware and software comply with key Internet RFCs
  • Test with the same products used by the vast majority of NEMs, chipset vendors and service providers around the world – Ensure consistency of results
  • Leverage Test Automation for accurate, repeatable, efficient regression testing

Security Attacks

Test Resilience against Malicious Attacks

Network security infrastructure must provide protection from malicious attacks, without compromising performance.  The real world demands both performance and security.  
Emulate Malicious Attacks in the Lab, so you can:

  • Stress-test, to discover limits – Does your system fail open, letting all traffic through unchecked, or closed, where no traffic gets through?
  • Blend valid and attack traffic, to confirm performance of valid user traffic remains acceptable during an attack
  • Test virus detection and spam filtering work under heavy load, or DDoS attack
  • Measure the performance and tunnel capacity that IP Sec VPN services deliver
  • Verify that firewalls, IDS/IPS and DPI systems enforce policies, resist hackers, and protect against new threats, including zero-day attacks
  • Test interaction of policies and protections between different devices in complex systems
  • Leverage Test Automation for accurate, repeatable, efficient regression testing


Overview / Benefits

Empowered helps Service Providers, and the Equipment Manufacturers they depend on, to:

  • Enable realistic testing in your lab - Reproduce the complexity and scale of real world environments, security attacks, and worst-case scenarios, to ensure your system will deliver acceptable performance when deployed in the real world
  • Verify performance and availability under adverse network conditions – Bit errors, dropped packets, jitter, latency, bandwidth limitations, and security attacks  
  • Simulate complex, realistic outages and failures, to test failover and retransmission mechanisms
  • Ensure security infrastructure works together to protect against malicious attacks, while preserving performance and capacity for valid traffic
  • 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 Lab Realism Offerings help you simulate real world networks and extremes of negative testing, with precision and repeatability, to industry standards:


Related Offerings

  • 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 Application Testing Offerings help optimize applications and services like legacy and packet Voice and Video, and emulate the application layer traffic of massive numbers of web users
  • Our Automation Offerings include advanced solutions for managing lab processes and equipment, managing test execution and results analysis, and automating test cases  


Empowered Value-Add

Empowered has a solid track record of success in helping our customers simulate real world networks, customer environments, and the extremes of negative testing in the lab.
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 tailor your test bed to deliver the realism needed to verify your devices, systems and services will perform in the real world, and satisfy real customers  
  • Simulate complexity, scale and conditions of real customer environments, to support proof of concept testing and advanced troubleshooting
  • 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

 

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