Empowered Networks

Overview

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

• Test networks, devices, applications and services for optimal performance, interoperability and conformance with the RFC’s and industry standards that matter
• Verify performance, functionality and reliability of new hardware and software, to ensure network stability, optimal performance, and end customer satisfaction
• Stress-test to find limits – Pinpoint breakpoints and bottlenecks, and find and fix defects to make performance your competitive advantage
• Scale your testing – In number of ports, subscribers, sessions, VPN instances, routes, tunnels, VLANs and multi-play traffic – with detailed metrics for throughput, QoS, availability and security
• Confirm priority traffic gets precedence, without starving low priority traffic
• Enable Converged Networking – Synchronization is required at the network edge to support legacy telecoms and wireless with cost-efficient Carrier Ethernet
• 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 Network Testing Offerings include:

• Spirent TestCenter is Spirent's Flagship Testing Platform, focusing on performance, interoperability and conformance testing for network infrastructure, with realistic testing of data and control planes, and application layer protocols. 
• Spirent TestCenter enables full line rate testing of 1/10/40/100 Gbit/s Ethernet, as well as Packet-over-SONET and ATM technologies, with stateful multiplay traffic over emulated network topologies
• Spirent TestCenter is the industry leading solution for testing Carrier Ethernet links, interconnections, OAM mechanisms, and compliance with Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and other industry standards
• Spirent TestCenter also confirms the performance, scalability and security of Carrier Class MPLS networks in large network topologies

Related Offerings

• Our IEEE 1588 / PTP Offerings deliver time and frequency synchronization to the edge of packet-based networks, and enable monitoring and measuring sync quality.  Quality synchronization at the network edge is required to converge networks, and backhaul wireless, voice and other forms of legacy traffic over packet based networks
• Our Data Center Testing Offerings help you optimize the performance, availability, security and scalability of today’s Data Centers, and private, public and hybrid Cloud Computing, by testing the interconnections between physical and virtual servers, 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 Lab Realism Offerings help you simulate real world network links and connections, with extremes of traffic, congestion, errors and other impairments, complex routing, and security attacks
• Our Automation Offerings include advanced solutions for managing lab processes and equipment, managing test execution and results analysis, and for automating test cases
• 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 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 labs of all sizes, for different industry verticals.  Our Experts in Testing combine advanced skills and training with real-world experience.

Empowered can help you:

• Ensure repeatable, reproducible, stressful and meaningful results from testing
• Research testing requirements, standards, test plans 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 support testing the new and evolving technical standards and services relevant to you
• 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, by providing the support, 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.