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We are in close touch with customers about the challenges they face working in new environments. We have assembled a collection of our most popular resources to help you stay in the know. We’ll keep this page updated, so check back often for new resources.

5G

We have an extensive list of popular resources to help simplify the complexity and safely accelerate your journey to 5G from development through rollout.

Featured 5G Resources

Webinar

How to deliver robust automation in time for 5G

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The Spirent 2020 5G Report

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WHITE PAPER

Simplifying 5G with a Network Digital Twin

As telecommunications technology transitions from 4G to the incredible promise and potential of 5G, one thing is clear: the newer technology is not just an incremental upgrade, but an exponential leap in terms of speed, accuracy, latency, and complexity.

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It’s Time to Be Proactive: Why 5G, SD-WAN and NFV require automated Active Assurance

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.

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The Simplification of Radio Channel Modeling

Testing is, of course, an essential step in wireless product development, but the correct balance between field and lab testing can be difficult to discern. Field test plans cannot practically capture the wide range conditions that a product will operate in, yet creating realistic radio channel environments in the lab has typically required a high degree of time and skill. Both of these approaches have only gotten more complex with the introduction of 5G radio technologies.

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Assuring the Evolution to 5G Poster

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.

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POSTER

FlexE Test Solution for 5G Backhaul

Introducing the industry’s highest density Flex Ethernet (FlexE) test solution addressing 5G transport, SPN and ITU-T G.mtn

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Mobile Video Streaming: Buffering…

Spirent conducted a study on mobile video streaming across different carriers, devices and services in two US cities. The results showed that having the latest smartphone, the most popular streaming service and excellent network coverage doesn't always equate to high quality. This infographic reveals some of what we found, a look at what motivates consumers to look elsewhere, and how Spirent can help you to keep your customers happy.

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Automation

This collection of resources looks at automation through the lens of a Lab-as-a-Service (LaaS) approach and how it delivers the lab resources required by developers, testers, pre- and post-sales support teams and others on an on-demand basis.

Featured Automation Resources

eBook

Lab Automation

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EBOOK

Lab-as-a-Service for Physical and Virtual Hybrid Testbeds

With the network experiencing the most dramatic technology disruptions, this disruption is coming from the rethinking of how the network is being delivered and managed. Network function virtualization allows the industry to rethink and retool the network from the ground up. However, this is creating many challenges in the areas of service assurance and network testing and verification.

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Elements of a Successful Lab Automation and DevOps Solution Adoption

An automation solution is an answer to a productivity challenge. At one extreme, companies like Amazon will produce a new release on average of every 16 seconds. At the other end of the spectrum, very conservative organizations will generate a publicly consumable release, or GA, every six months. But, the vast majority of organizations find themselves in between.

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Streamline your Continuous Testing

Spirent’s Automation Platforms provide the bridge to close the chasm between Development and QA. Our solution ensures that the different teams are empowered with the same understanding of the end customers’ use cases and operational environments, thus increasing engineering efficiency.

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Cybersecurity

This collection of resources highlights how to tame the complexity of security while optimizing your investments and accelerating innovation.

Featured Cybersecurity Resources

Blog - Proactive application and security validation for hybrid network services model

eBook

Leveraging Security to “Innovate with Intention”

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WHITE PAPER

Assuring the Promise of a Secure 5G Future

There has been plenty of discussion about the benefits 5G will bring to consumers, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs), and service providers (SPs). The benefits 5G are both numerous and game-changing. 5G will radically improve the mobile broadband services that consumers enjoy and enable connectivity to billions of global devices to create a boom in the Internet of Things (IoT). 5G will provide robust support for new use cases we may scarcely imagine today.

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A New Era in Trusted Network Security Testing

Historically assessing a network solution's performance in real-world terms relied on vendor provided information or private lab assessments.

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CyberFlood Security Testing

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SD-WAN

Whether you are a SD-WAN vendor, service provider or an enterprise, this resource collection is designed to help you understand how to meet your expectations of cost savings in network operation, faster deployment and increased performance.