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Agilent Technologies and Mu Dynamics Integrate Solutions

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July 06, 2009

Agilent Technologies and Mu Dynamics Integrate Solutions

By Tim Gray, TMCnet Web Editor


Agilent Technologies has teamed with VoIP testing outfit Mu Dynamics to roll its N2X multiservice test solution into Mu’s Test Suite family, according to the companies.

 
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Mu Dynamics expects the integration – already in use at leading network operators and their vendor suppliers – to accelerate the design and automation of tests designed to evaluate the impact of unexpected device/systems scenarios on network performance and reliability.
 
Now, according to Dave Kresse, chief executive officer of Mu Dynamics, the combined effort of Agilent’s (News - Alert) load and performance test solution and Mu’s Test Suite will enable operators and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) to make critical product-purchasing and deployment decisions based on real-world reliability, availability, security, performance and quality-of-experience metrics.
 
“IP Services can now be built and deployed with the confidence that they will remain robust and available,” Kresse said.
 
In recent years, Mu Dynamics has helped vendors eliminate NGN service downtime through proactive service assurance. The company’s "Mu Analyzer" is designed to support integration with a wide variety of test lab environments including load generation, functional testing, open and proprietary standards.
 
This testing, which provides a “real world” environment to emulate scale and traffic in “out-of-service” lab environments, is designed to eliminate the need for operationally costly and large test beds of network equipment.
 
“In a single application, N2X validates the performance and scalability characteristics of next-generation networks for voice, video and data services,” said Toni Piwonka-Corle, general manager of Agilent’s Data Networks Operation.
 
Piwonka-Corle said each sides coauthored a testing methodology that they expect to enable shared customers to extend the integration to a wide variety of test scenarios.
 
“The combined methodology enables far more comprehensive and proactive testing and provides a new level of insight into how a device’s weakness can affect network performance as a whole. It’s a win-win for our mutual customers," Piwonka-Corle said.
 
The aforementioned Agilent N2X is a tool that validates the functional, performance and scalability characteristics of broadband networks and next-generation network equipment, such as layer 2-3 forwarding devices that deliver video, VoIP, data and VPN services.
 
Mu Dynamic’s Test Suite focuses on identifying software weaknesses and “exception” handling capabilities of network applications and devices, according to Kresse.
 
The modules offer QA, developer and support teams a series of dynamically malformed or mutated packets to the application or device under test (DUT) and determine which mutation negatively affects the DUT’s supported services and causes anomalous behavior in control-plane protocols. By conducting a very large number of protocol-specific tests, Mu’s Test Suite characterizes the network application reliability, overall robustness and security.
 
The real-time integration of Mu’s Test Suite concurrently with Agilent’s N2X makes it possible to evaluate the impact of an exception on overall network performance and service availability under load.

Tim Gray is a Web Editor for TMCnet, covering news in the IP communications, call center and customer relationship management industries. To read more of Tim’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Michael Dinan








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