8th Feb 2007 13:00
Spirent Communications (NYSE:SPM)(LSE:SPT), a global provider ofperformance analysis and service management solutions, today announcedthat its Spirent Protocol Tester has been recognized across theindustry as a groundbreaking tool for IMS evaluation and test. £ Spirent Protocol Tester, released in September of 2006, providesunrivaled flexibility and ease of use for testing IMS and nextgeneration network architectures and services. With this solution,vendors and operators can benchmark the reliability of IMS coreelements to ensure customers' quality of experience (QoE). £ Spirent Protocol Tester was named by Reed Electronics' publicationTest & Measurement World as Best In Test for 2006. Each year, Test &Measurement World's editors present the Best in Test awards forinnovative products. Test & Measurement World's editors chose thisyear's winners field from scores of products introduced betweenNovember 1, 2005, and October 31, 2006. Spirent Protocol Tester waschosen for recognition in the Wireline Tester category of Best In Testfor its unmatched IMS testing capabilities. £ "The IMS market is evolving rapidly and the industry has yet todefine testing standards," says Stephane Teral, principal analyst,Infonetics. "This lack of guidance makes implementation tricky andfraught with variables. A flexible approach to performance analysiswill be essential to successful deployment." £ Spirent Protocol Tester was also named as 2006 Product of the Yearby TMCnet's Internet Telephony magazine. Products and solutionsselected to receive this award have been instrumental in the explosivegrowth of VoIP and the IP telephony industry overall. Spirent ProtocolTester offers unique capabilities to test the underpinnings of IMSwhich will support the next generation of VoIP and service delivery. £ "These awards show that the rest of the industry is recognizingwhat our customers already know - that Spirent Protocol Tester offersunmatched capabilities for testing next generation architecture andtechnologies," said Bahaa Moukadam, vice president next-generationnetworks, Spirent Communications. "With solutions like SpirentProtocol Tester, Spirent enables the industry to deploy qualitynext-generation services and platforms that deliver the reliabilitythat customers demand." £ Spirent Protocol Tester provides comprehensive support for allmajor VoIP and IMS protocols and media formats, including conformance,protocol, functional and interoperability testing, whilesimultaneously providing signaling and media load generation. SpirentProtocol Tester can test and emulate virtually any VoIP and IMSnetwork element, function or service. Its protocol-independentarchitecture allows new or proprietary protocols to be added quicklyand easily. Its software architecture provides users with unparalleledlevels of protocol customization, automation, reusability,scalability, flexibility and ease of use. £ Spirent Protocol Tester is the ideal tool for addressing IMSinteroperability testing challenges by allowing users to add, removeand customize protocol message headers and payloads. With SpirentProtocol Tester engineers can define and create any protocol call flowusing any mix of protocols. Spirent Protocol Tester provides thisneeded flexibility via a modern graphical user interface necessary forrapid test case creation and easy troubleshooting and tests allVoIP/IMS core Network elements such as x-CSCF, PCRF, HSS, IP-PBXs,Application Servers, gatekeepers, and Session Border Controllers. £ In addition, the Spirent Protocol Tester also offers acomprehensive service testing capability with in-built testmethodologies for many popular IMS services such as Presence, PoC, andXDM. New services can be easily created and tested with an in-builtprototyping capability, allowing for a full set of IMS services to betested before deployment. £ About Spirent Communications £ Spirent Communications (www.spirentcom.com) is a global providerof integrated performance analysis and service assurance systems thatenable the development and deployment of next-generation networkingtechnology such as Internet telephony, broadband services, 3Gwireless, global navigation satellite systems, and network securityequipment. Spirent Communications' solutions are used by more than1,700 customers in 30 countries, including the world's largestequipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises andgovernments. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Spirent Communications has 1,800employees worldwide. 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