Functional and Load Test

The key success factor for network equipment manufacturers in today’s communication market is reducing the time to market for new products without accepting tradeoffs on quality and accuracy of design verification activities.  Functional stability and load scalability for the newest NGN/IP solutions, as well as interoperability of new network elements and technologies with the existing network infrastructure and legacy standards, must be verified in the most efficient while in the labs and before reaching the customer.

With the evolution of mobile communication standards and the rapid adoption of a whole new set of high-speed data services, the complexity of testing new products and the pressure to cut time to market has increased dramatically.

When testing compliance of new protocols against standards, the ability to predict how elements will respond to specific traffic scenarios or load conditions, as well as duplicating unexpected network messages that may cause network elements crash, must be performed on reliable and flexible test platforms. Doing so reduces the need for additional investments when new technologies evolve, and increases the productivity of the test teams while reducing the return of trouble-tickets from the field after product deployment.

Tektronix Communications leverages its decades of customer experience and industry leadership in IP protocol test and analysis solutions in the design of its solutions. Ease of use, breadth of protocols library, active anticipation and adoption of new network protocols, and unparalleled test performance, allow equipment manufacturers and developers around the world to reduce the time to complete testing through more productive development teams.