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VoLTE Test

  • Along with making HD voice a reality, voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) provides a framework for a complex mix of video, messaging, and rich communications services (RCS). VoLTE promises the toll-grade quality you need to safeguard existing revenues while helping to fast-track compelling new services and more flexible business models.
  • But not without some challenges. VoLTE ranks among the most complex technologies mobile operators will ever deploy, and in today’s fiercely competitive markets, the pressure’s on to get it right the first time. Evolving challenges include:
  • Optimizing a multi-vendor network infrastructure
  • Meeting high expectations for quality amidst increased subscriber mobility and network congestion
  • Maintaining performance at the cell edge
  • Leveraging the QoS and policy control mechanisms built into LTE
  • With so many variables in play, you can no longer risk relying on vendor data in predicting performance. Instead, service and equipment providers alike must qualify the functionality, resiliency, and scalability in their labs as they deploy and optimize new VoLTE services.

The solution delivers:

  • Comprehensive protocol support (SIP, RTP, MSRP, MEGACO, CAMEL, H.264, etc.) for voice and conversational video
  • Complete control over the SIP state machine and SIP methods
  • Support for major VoLTE test configurations: isolated EPC, combined EPC and IMS core, end-to-end system test, and more
  • End-to-end testing of entire IMS , VoLTE and RCSe solution
  • Along with making HD voice a reality, voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) provides a framework for a complex mix of video, messaging, and rich communications services (RCS). VoLTE promises the toll-grade quality you need to safeguard existing revenues while helping to fast-track compelling new services and more flexible business models.
  • But not without some challenges. VoLTE ranks among the most complex technologies mobile operators will ever deploy, and in today’s fiercely competitive markets, the pressure’s on to get it right the first time.
  • The solution delivers:
  • Comprehensive protocol support (SIP, RTP, MSRP, H.264, etc.) for voice and conversational video
  • Complete control over the SIP state machine and SIP methods
  • Support for major VoLTE test configurations: isolated EPC, combined EPC and IMS core, end-to-end system test, and more
  • End-to-end testing of entire IMS , VoLTE and RCSe solution
  • LTE traffic volumes continue to surge with subscriber numbers, Smartphone usage, and rich-media applications all on the rise. Mobile operators can maximize revenue potential by fast-tracking new, differentiated services such as VoLTE based on guaranteed quality – if they can scale reliably.
  • Network operators and equipment manufacturers alike face formidable new challenges:
  • Optimizing diversified LTE infrastructures featuring equipment, systems, and applications from multiple vendors
  • Withstanding spikes in already-hard-to-predict signaling traffic (Smartphone generate up to 20x more) that can lead to outages
  • Combining GTP, SIP, and Diameter-based signaling
  • Maintaining policy management, mobility, monetization, and Quality of Service (QoS) at high scale
  • Since failures typically occur at high scale or under extreme conditions, EPC network cores and charging systems must be subjected to realistic, high-stress scenarios to validate QoS policies, monetization, and the quality of the subscriber experience (QoE).
  • LTE radio access networks (RANs) achieve next-generation performance goals but significantly increase complexity with many new network components, multi-vendor environments, and the emergence of heterogeneous networks . These challenges and other unknowns must be overcome in order for VoLTE and other rich communications services (RCS) to be successful.
  • Since you can’t afford to rely on “best case” performance data,  evolving best practices call for proactive validation of new devices, network configurations, and services against realistic live-network scenarios—at scale and under high-stress conditions. New designs and deployments must be subjected to a wide array of mobile applications and subscriber behavior in the lab, and their performance optimized as live networks scale in size and complexity.
  • From functional testing during design to the ongoing optimization of premium services, SpectVoice Technology provides comprehensive modeling of subscribers, applications, Quality of Service (QoS) policies, security threats, and mobility.
  • Experts predict a staggering surge in mobile traffic with Wi-Fi playing an even greater role in consumer, business, and service provider networks. Vital real-time applications such as voice, streaming video, unified communications (UC), and patient monitoring are all going mobile, raising the bar for reliable performance higher and higher.
  • Set to break the wireless gigabit barrier, emerging 802.11ac infrastructures promise huge gains in speed and capacity. But to realize their full benefit, access points (APs) and controllers must become more intelligent and content-aware in addressing:
  • The growing capacity crunchwith better RF design and improved data handling
  • The BYOD trendwith policy-based application management for delay-sensitive applications
  • Increasing reliability requirements as voice- and video-over Wi-Fi proliferate
  • Migration to the cloud with new levels of flexibility and quality assurance
  • To validate performance, makers of APs and wireless LAN (WLAN) controllers need to subject new designs to realistic application mixes, high-load conditions, and varying range, roaming, and interference scenarios. Your engineers need an efficient, cost-effective means of gauging the impact of new designs on existing WLANs, as well as the impact of the network on device performance—without requiring countless client devices to be bought and managed.
  • Once considered a “nice to have,” Wi-Fi now serves as a primary—or only—network interface for today’s high-powered devices. With mobile users expecting a high-quality experience everywhere and every time, client devices are already being pushed beyond their limits by:
  • Real-time streaming video and conferencing in unified communications (UC)
  • Cloud-based services such as SalesForce.com, Oracle, and Microsoft Lync
  • Mobile healthcare and patient monitoring
  • Cellular offload from crowded provider networks
  • To protect their reputations and avoid liability, new and world-leading mobile device manufacturers alike must validate the performance of new designs against real-world, high-scale conditions.  In specifying designs and components, you need realistic, actionable insight early on, and throughout the product life-cycle to ensure the highest quality.
  • Do you plan to build or extend your network? We will evaluate the specific demands of the network, give you RFP support (request for proposals) and then both evaluate them and analyze your network design.
  • Are you ready to implement your new network? With the help of our stringent, high-level network measurements
  • On the basis of simulated traffic profiles that represent possible future demands, we will evaluate the performance limits of your network and point out any bottlenecks or configuration issues in your infrastructure in advance.
  • Our experts will thoroughly accomplish network design tests, robustness and network performance tests by using highly advanced, specialized measuring equipment.
  • These performance tests can be implemented for data traffic as well as for voice and video traffic.
  • Our experienced SpectVoice Technology engineers will prepare test plans and schedule and carry out the performance tests to ensure an in-depth testing of all devices in your network.
  • We will help you to find any failures in your network. You will have a unique opportunity to benefit from our many years of testing experience and save money that might otherwise be spent on expensive performance tests equipment.
  • Have you noticed any errors in your network? SpectVoice Technology can help you if your network’s performance tailed off under certain circumstances.
  • We will support you by your network troubleshooting. Our experts will use special analyzers to localize the problem.
  • Benefit from our wealth of test experience, which will be used to analyze your network problems.
  • What SpectVoice Technology will do for you… We will guide you through all phases of a network – from the planning to writing the RFC to the testing.
  • Our clients include international Internet service providers, telecommunications companies and companies from a range of other sectors e.g. Banking, insurance, the automotive industry, and transport / logistics.
  • Your network infrastructure exists for one reason: to deliver the services and applications that matter to your customers who demand access now, without interruption. Anything that affects your ability to reach customers has a serious impact on your bottom line.
  • High-quality application performance requires real-time awareness of what’s happening on the network. Telecom operators need to monitor, analyze, and report on transactions throughout the environment—whether physical, virtual, application or in the cloud—to identify issues quickly and resolve problems before they disrupt critical services. This means understanding dependencies between applications and the network, being alerted to issues before business is affected, and accelerating troubleshooting.
  • For most businesses, network performance must now be evaluated and managed from an application perspective. To accomplish this, you need innovative transaction performance management capabilities that help prioritize problem resolution according to business impact.
  • What happens when we offload voice traffic to Wi-Fi? As user demand for high-quality anytime, anywhere communications continues growing exponentially, mobile providers are evolving core networks to higher capacity technologies such as 4G LTE. As they do so, mobile network optimization increasingly relies on detecting and preventing potential performance issues. Accomplishing this detection becomes even more challenging, given the expanding mix of tools, probes, interfaces, processes, functions, and servers involved in network monitoring and optimization.
  • SpectVoice Technology provides telecommunications providers easy access to view end-to-end analyses of architected networks, validate field applications, and improve customer loyalty and support. They deliver the actionable insights needed to dynamically detect, avoid and address issues, end-to-end network visibility solutions allow engineers to evaluate and optimize network and application performance under diverse conditions.