Impair to Become Aware

Impair to Become Aware

With the increase use of applications and services, network impairments are unavoidable. Network impairments put network performance at risk and jeopardize key aspects of your operation. Subscriber volatility is fueled by packet delay, jitter, packet loss, and other problems that affect subscribers' quality of experience. 

When testing new services or products, what you need is an emulated network cloud – one that mirrors the complexity and changeability that are seen in real network environments. A network cloud moves data using a wide variety of protocols, encapsulations, and physical media. 

Pre-deployment network emulation and testing allow you to discover problems that would have been missed in a traditional test bed and fix them before deployment, saving time and money. It is always easier and less costly to correct issues that can come from real-world usage before products are in the real world, being actively used by customers.

Irrespective of which part of a network you may be testing – access, edge, core, or applications running across a WAN – the best way to ensure that a network design allows for the correct functioning of application protocols is to leverage network emulation and verify performance prior to deployment.

Network impairment simulation offers high flexibility in the test scenarios executed to determine the quality of service for network operators. This simulation enhances the capabilities of the pre-deployment testing facilities. It enables sustainable quantity and quality metrics measurement for user capacity benchmarking for new site deployments.

Did you think about this when you deployed new networks ?