Spirent Landslide Wi-Fi Offload Gateway Test System

Oct. 2, 2012
As wireless usage continues to increase, mobile operators are expected to partner with cable operators for WiFi offloading to ease congestion and control capital expenditure. To make this successful and to ensure a consistent QoE, Spirent Communications' Landslide Wi-Fi Offload Gateway Test System executes a seamless, secure service handoff, the company says.
Landslide tests the offloading of data from sources such as OTT video, voice, SMS, and 3G/4G/LTE for performance, availability, security and scalability. Engineers validate acceptable throughput and latency, a quick and transparent handoff, and seamless authentication, and determine the number of users and sessions the system can support.Spirent says Landslide tests with realism: real user behavior, real converged traffic and real network conditions. The test platform emulates millions of mobile data subscribers accessing the network and determines how the system will behave. As a result, one Diamonds judge called it "the tool an operator will want to have in their tool shed when the day arrives when WiFi loading is fully deployed."www.spirent.comSee them at Cable-Tec EXPO, Booth 521Return to the BTR Diamond Technology Reviews Elite.