Network specialist Ciena Corporation, is using Shenick’s (News - Alert) diversifEye to test full two-way active measurement protocol (TWAMP) compliance for its customers. Thanks to Shenick’s full TWAMP testing, Ciena’s test engineers can conduct a network “health check” by measuring the complete IP performance of underlying transport, through cooperation between network elements that have already been deployed.

 

Robert Winters, CMO, Shenick Network Systems said in a statement that measuring the performance of IP networks with standard protocols has always been a challenge. He said that Shenick’s full TWAMP capabilities can test and monitor what’s happening on a network right down to an individual flow basis for a variety of different applications; voice, video and data.

 

“This brings tremendous benefits to companies like Ciena and its customers, who want to deliver QoS to end users,” he added.

 

Mike Nielsen, vice president at Ciena Corporation pointed out that a number of their customers have standardized TWAMP as the test of choice for measuring the health of a network. He said that Shenick is a key partner for Ciena as their company ensures their customer networks are TWAMP compliant.

 

As a completely integrated high performance 10Gbps test system, Shenick’s diversifEye10G enables both network operators and communications equipment manufacturers to create and test the most realistic converged IP application usage scenarios covering QoS, individual subscriber experience, functional verification, high load and key performance limitations.

 

For those unaware, the TWAMP protocol defines a flexible method for measuring round-trip IP performance among any two devices in a network that supports the standard. By leveraging full/complete TWAMP testing carriers can go one step further and TWAMP test each node in the network for ultimate end user quality of service (QoS).

 

Shenick is a provider of IP communications test and performance monitoring systems.

 

Specializing in network transition, Ciena provides the flexible platforms, intelligent software and professional services to build converged networks for enhanced services and applications.