Empowered Networks

Overview

Empowered provides a broad spectrum of Wireless Testing Solutions, to help you:

• Stress-Test Wireless Core Networks – Emulate millions of mobile nodes with real-world application data, in various stages of activation, and hand-off between cells
• Emulate key wireless core network elements and authentication mechanisms – Enhance unit and system testing with realistic subscriber control and data plane traffic
• Verify new wireless handsets, devices and infrastructure equipment to ensure new functionality, connectivity, and applications won’t put performance, customer satisfaction, support costs, or network stability at risk
• Scale 802.11a/b/g/n testing of Wireless devices, access points, and infrastructure
• Deliver seamless QoS to WiFi users moving around the home, office, shop floor, hospital corridors or distributed campuses, with robust testing of access points, overall systems and deployed Wi-Fi infrastructures
• Enable Wireless Service Monitoring – Effectively monitor wireless and wireless calls, transactions and protocol exchanges, to enable service assurance, and rapid problem detection, diagnosis and resolution
• 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 Wireless Testing Offerings include:

• Spirent Landslide include solutions for testing all flavours of wireless core networks, for performance, availability, security and scalability of control and data plane packet flows, with simulation of millions of nodes and active users
• Solutions from Veriwave for testing WiFi devices, access points and infrastructure, and ensure deployed networks deliver seamless QoS to mobile WiFi users
• Solutions from Nexus Telecom to effectively monitor wireless and wireless calls, transactions and protocol exchanges, to enable service assurance, and rapid problem detection, diagnosis and resolution for all flavours of wireless communications
• Empowered also has deep expertise in solutions to verify new wireless handsets, devices and infrastructure equipment, to ensure new functionality, connectivity, and applications won’t put performance, customer satisfaction, support costs, or network stability at risk
• Our Outsourced Testing and Professional Services are available for a wide range of wireless technologies, both in the Lab, and in field deployments

Related Offerings

• Our Network Testing Offerings conduct a wide variety of tests – scalability, performance, interoperability, conformance, and quality of service – with precise, granular measurements, and full line rate testing of 1/10/40/100 Gbit/s Ethernet
• Our IEEE 1588 / PTP Offerings deliver time and frequency synchronization to the edge of packet-based backhaul networks, and enable monitoring and measuring sync quality.  
• Our Lab Realism Offerings help you test the impacts of changes in network paths and conditions, simulate real world networks and extremes of negative testing, and the impacts of security attacks on authorized and valid traffic
• Our Test Automation Offerings include advanced solutions for managing lab processes and equipment, managing test execution and results analysis, and automating test cases  
• Our Data Center Testing Offerings help you test the interconnections between physical and virtual servers, storage, networks and related data center infrastructure, to help you validate the performance, availability, security and scalability they deliver  
• Our Application Testing Offerings help you emulate massive numbers of web users and voice and video clients, with realistic application layer traffic, and the mechanisms that control access, security, authentication, and billing  
• Our Network Monitoring Offerings enable visibility, monitoring, diagnostics and analysis of the packets flowing across wireless service provider networks, and advanced solutions for linking test and monitoring tools to signalling and user traffic  
• Our Security & Forensics Offerings extend network and security surveillance with real-time detection and alerting, and “back-in-time” forensics and analysis

Empowered Value-Add

Empowered has a core competency in Wireless Testing spanning the full spectrum of wireless technologies, and a track record of success with key equipment vendors and service providers in Canada.  Our Experts in Testing combine advanced skills and training with real-world experience.

We can help you:

• 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, and help you justify improvements
• Understand your available options to support testing the new and evolving technical standards and services relevant to you
• Select the right solutions to address your priority needs, business case and budget
• Planand evaluate trials of new technology and new developments with advanced tools for load simulation and performance analysis, and skills to evaluate trial results
• 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.