VisionWorks

Learn more about how VisionWorks can deliver benefits to you and your customers. __Did you know:__ Tier-1 service providers have achieved a 10x improvement in small cell turn-up and SLA management with VisionWorks. Digital transformation drives an increase in services, business agility, and the generation of revenue by offering innovative solutions. In order to deliver on this promise, communications providers must reduce operational costs while continuing to support traffic growth and ensure a superior customer experience.

Learn why active assurance merits serious consideration as a cost-effective, scalable, highly-effective means of ensuring networks deliver on their promise.

Containing issues in today’s networks is a never-ending effort—and getting more intense as networks evolve to 5G, SD-WAN, and NFV. As networks are virtualized to support these next-gen services, manual troubleshooting simply can’t keep up. Service providers need new methods for assuring the network. This white paper explores two paths available for assuring the network: traditional passive assurance, relying on metrics collected passively as subscribers use the network. And active assurance, which utilizes highly realistic synthetic user traffic injected into the network at various points to assess performance and quality.

In this Microsoft ISV Partner video, Doug Roberts, SVP & GM of the Lifecycle Service Assurance business unit, speaks about how Spirent is collaborating with Microsoft to assure the resiliency, security, and performance of the new Azure public MEC.

Everything about 5G networks is bigger. For 4G, a large national provider might have a network topology with ten physical data centers. Mobile core functions deployed at these locations represent the edge of the mobile network – the point at which core networks interface with radio networks via IP aggregation and backhaul networks. While expensive, for 4G, a service provider could deploy service assurance probes at each of these locations to effectively monitor all user traffic and signaling.

We’ve entered the era of 5G, with blazingly fast speeds, vast coverage density, large area traffic capacity, and super low latency. 5G is more than a step up from 4G; it’s a radical leap that dramatically improves mobile broadband services and empowers the Internet of Things (IoT) by enabling connectivity to billions of global devices. Most providers are taking an evolutionary approach to 5G, starting with 4G evolved pack core (EPC) control / user plane separation (CUPS), then migrating to 5G non-standalone (NSA), and finally deploying full native 5G or adopting Open RAN (O-RAN). Assuring a successful journey from 4G to native 5G requires the ability to test and assure every phase of the journey and every stage of the service lifecycle. Spirent solutions test and assure your evolution to 5G across the service lifecycle — from the lab to the production network. Download our poster depicting 5G network functions for a quick look at the overall structure of the 5G network and associated services.