Spirent TestCenter™
Highly Scalable Switch, Router and Access Testing
The pace of innovation, both in technology and in product development and deployment, has never been more frantic. With billions of revenue at risk at a global scale, manufacturers and service providers can’t afford a misstep at any stage in the lifecycle.
By streamlining development and deployment, next-generation test equipment has emerged as a significant differentiator, boosting the competitive advantage of forward-thinking companies.
Spirent remains at the forefront of test innovation, helping development and deployment teams achieve their technical and business goals. By providing a complete end-to-end test solution that supports a wide range of traditional and evolving technologies, Spirent enables you to release more solid, reliable implementations while reducing costs in design, development, deployment and customer support.
What's the Spirent Difference?
Realism
Test realism is the foundation of meaningful test results. For a test to have value, it must realistically recreate the environment in which the system under test will be deployed. Test realism is based on two essential components: fidelity and scalability. Because of the experience of the Spirent engineering team, Spirent TestCenter emulates device and system behavior with a high-level of fidelity with the power to scale, from emulating a single device to emulating an entire city or country. You can scale in bandwidth, traffic type, subscribers, sessions, ports, tunnels or VLANs as your requirements dictate. This means you can understand how a Quality-of-Service implementation will affect the Quality of Experience of the end users.
Automation
Automation is the secret weapon that creates competitive advantage. It is the key to improving quality and time to market. A good automation strategy increases ROI and reduces TCO while increasing test coverage. Automation is built into the architecture of Spirent TestCenter, simplifying the process at every step. Because the API is integrated into the GUI, users can record tests for modification and playback through the Commander Sequencer, or open an editor and write scripts, both with the same powerful results. The Spirent NoCode approach and Spirent PASS Methodologies (Performance, Availability, Security and Scalability)combine an unprecedented level of power and simplicity.
Experience
Spirent removes time-consuming guesswork and speculation from every stage of the lifecycle. Proven test methodologies based on industry standards and supplemented by decades of experience simplifies the work of configuring and running tests and interpreting the results. Spirent engineering experts created the innovative, industry-first SmartBits, AX/4000 and Avalanche platforms.
With a thorough understanding of the industry and its testing needs, in 2007 Spirent released another industry-first platform. Spirent TestCenter was designed from the beginning for 40G and100G testing with 2.5 ns clock resolution. In early 2009, it raised the bar with the HyperMetrics product family, multi-core processor test modules years ahead of the rest of the industry. In 2011 it took density to the next level with the HyperMetricsneXt family with three times the coverage, four times the density, and eight times the performance.
