Newest Empirix Hammer NXT VoIP Load Test System Delivers Comprehensive21 December 2004
Using multiple Hammer NXT systems, network equipment manufacturers and service provider labs can create load testing environments that scale to more than 50,000 endpoints (signaling and media). The NXT now incorporates Empirix' patent-pending IP.DSP(TM) technology, which provides high density testing capacity and media analysis while reducing test system per port costs by up to a factor of 10X.
"Load testing is critical for network equipment manufacturers and service providers seeking to bring services to market faster and is especially important today as the VoIP market moves from the emerging stage to the deployment stage. With these enhancements to the Hammer NXT, Empirix has boosted the system's cost-effectiveness, performance and flexibility, significantly increasing its value proposition to customers," said Jessy Cavazos, Industry Analyst and Sector Leader of the Communications Test & Measurement Group at Frost & Sullivan. "Empirix is a leader in the world VoIP test equipment market. This announcement is key to the company's R&D test equipment portfolio and demonstrates its commitment to the lab, even as the company leverages its market strength into VoIP monitoring."
The Hammer NXT offers up to 24K simultaneous signaling/media endpoints per system for high-density performance testing. Carrier-class test scenarios can be cost-effectively scaled with simultaneous testing and monitoring of every channel, as well as real-time path confirmation and media detection at wire speeds, to verify maximum call rates, routing, and content under a variety of real-world network scenarios.
The new, fully programmable state machine-based signaling emulation engine offers complete control over the behavior of all emulated endpoints, as well as unmatched IP protocol scripting flexibility, including the ability to quickly extend or customize protocols to user specifications. Complex call flows can be easily modeled, without expert protocol knowledge, and users have expanded control over IP signaling message content and sequences for testing VoIP services and applications.
The object-oriented environment, accessed via an intuitive graphical interface, ensures that all protocol changes are automatically replicated throughout the test environment. Test routines can be easily modeled, stored and reused. The system architecture allows a unique protocol to be run on each individual endpoint, providing enhanced flexibility for building test networks under various scenarios.
The new NXT shares a common signaling engine and architecture with the Hammer FX(TM)-IP functional test system. Customized protocol and signaling configurations can be ported between the two platforms. With the use of the Hammer Mega-Controller(TM), engineers can create a single, integrated test environment that speeds feature and load testing for VoIP network equipment, such as media gateways, soft switches, media servers, and session border controllers.
The system can detect and analyze the content of each media stream generated (up to 24 K) at full Ethernet line rates, including detection of tones, DTMF, voice prompts, silences, and energy, allowing users to stress and verify media functionality under high-density conditions. A wide range of codecs are supported, as well as unique IP and MAC address emulation.
Hammer products are the industry's most widely-used VoIP IP/TDM test solutions, as verified by three consecutive Frost & Sullivan market surveys. Since the introduction of its first VoIP test system in 1995, the Hammer product family has grown to include a full range of testing platforms, products and services that span the complete development and deployment lifecycle for next-generation services. Leading network equipment manufacturers, service providers, independent labs and enterprise network operators rely on Hammer's proven VoIP testing technology and patented innovations to cost-efficiently verify the functionality, performance and quality of service of next-generation equipment and networks.
About Empirix
Empirix delivers a comprehensive range of testing and monitoring solutions that assure the performance of next-generation networks, contact centers, and Web-based applications. Empirix provides products, services, and support to thousands of customers worldwide, including Global 2000 enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, and service providers. Headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, Empirix is a privately held company, with offices throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
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