Welcome to the VoIP Robustness Testing Channel sponsored by Mu Security.

Mu helps service providers maximize their service assurance for revenue-producing next Gen IP applications including VoIP and IPTV as well as IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) buildouts. By applying Mu's product suite including protocol mutations and published vulnerabilities, network operators reduce downtime and customer churn while building and operating higher quality, more reliable, available and secure networks for their mission-critical applications.

Learn how Mu's award-winning analyzer platform offers a differentiated, easily-deployed and modified solution to these challenges on the company’s new VoIP Robustness Testing channel. The company’s approach has been validated by leading cable operators, service providers and their supplier product vendors who are leaders in their respective software, hardware and services-based industries. Since Mu’s debut of its flagship Mu-4000 Security Analyzer appliance in early 2005, the company has achieved significant customer traction. One-third of the world's 15 largest service provider and cable operators now use Mu; Mu's customers represent one-half of the revenue in the global network, application and security infrastructure market; and Mu's customers represent one-third of the revenue in the global industrial control manufacturer market.

VoIP Robustness Testing Feature Articles

Securing IMS Networks and Infrastructure Products
March/April 2008
The IMS Forum interviews Mu’s VP Marketing Adam Stein, discusses details for Proactive Service Assurance in IMS network operator build outs … Read more

Asterisk VoIP products mauled by buffer overflow bugs
March 20, 2008
Buffer overflows - the perennial cause of security vulnerabilities in desktop applications - may become a worry for sys admins managing computerised telephone switchboards in the wake of the recent discovery of bugs in a popular IP PBX package. … Read more

Carrier Equipment Markets Feel the Need for Speed
March 12, 2008
There is no recession in carrier networking equipment, at least not yet, according to equipment sales trends revealed by Infonetics Research (News - Alert), Inc.’s most recent reports. All three major carrier equipment categories studied by the market … Read more

Application Development in an IMS Environment
February 29, 2008
New multimedia services, products, and features are being introduced regularly, in both fixed and mobile environments, as well as fixed/mobile convergence (FMC) applications, all of which are driving business at telcos, cablecos, and ISPs globally. … Read more

Telecom Industry Association: Features Mu’s CEO, Discusses VoIP and Next Gen IP Service Assurance Requirements
February 23, 2008
Mu CEO Dave Kresse discusses how using a Mu-4000 appliance helps solve an operator’s service assurance problems by uncovering product weaknesses and vulnerabilities that inflict costly Next-Gen IP application (e.g., VoIP, IMS, IPTV) downtime. … Read more

InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year Award: Mu-4000 Security Analyzer
January, 2008
2008 Top Technology honors for the Mu-4000 Security Analyzer. The appliance received strong buy recommendation for any service provider, cable operator or vendor supplier worried about unknown security vulnerabilities, product robustness and maximum uptime to limit customer churn - Companion InfoWorld Mu Use Slide Show also available online. … Read more

Internet Telephony Product of the Year: Mu-4000 from Mu Security
January, 2008
Internet Telephony selects the Mu-4000 for 2007 "Product of the Year" Award honors from nearly 500 applications. Winning entries demonstrated a commitment to quality and the continued development of the IP telephony industry. … Read more

InfoWorld "Excellent" Honors, Mu Analyzer busts Vulnerabilities with Greatest
of Ease
December 13, 2007
Mu-4000 Dynamic fuzzing appliance lands InfoWorld's "Excellent" rating, shines with wizard-driven test configuration, intelligent workflow, excellent vulnerability profiling, and auto-generated zero-day exploits. Separate online multimedia slide show graphically details hands-on Mu-4000 analyzer use. . . Read more

SC Magazine Innovators Award
December 1, 2007
SC Magazine Labs awarded the Mu-4000 its 2007 Innovators Award based on reviewers continued product evolution and use within their labs as a benchmark for any networked product. . . Read more

Mu and NSP Released Service Provider TCO and ROI Study
November 29, 2007
Study Details Service Provider Best Practices for Avoiding Network Downtime and Customer Churn; Dec 6 Webcast and Web-based ROI Calculator Available … Read more