Data Center Testing: When It Comes to a Data Center Rollout, Kicking the...
It seems like there are a dozen ways to succeed and a thousand ways to fail. And it is disconcerting how easily a project that is on track can end up in the ditch. I’ve noticed that often success comes...
View ArticleWelcome to The Tested With Spirent Blog
Testing is a strategic imperative as service providers deploy highly complex converged networks delivering differentiated voice, video, data and applications based services. Testing today’s, as well as...
View ArticleTesting Data Center Virtualization: Are you asking the right questions?
Data centers today are larger, faster and more complex than ever. New technologies such as virtualization, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and 40/100 Gigabit Ethernet aim to help organizations move...
View ArticleUnified Threat Management
You don’t need me to tell you that realistically testing a Unified Threat Manager (UTM) can be a nightmare. The convergence that is happening on so many fronts offers a utopian future of lower OPEX and...
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Advanced Test Automation: Making the Case for Test Lab Automation
Hold the phone! Stop the presses! Suspend the blogs! Abate the tweets! Some breaking news: Testing is essential for achieving product quality, improving customer satisfaction, reducing costs and...
View ArticleTest Realism - Find and fix your bugs before your customers find them for you
Expectations. When I turn on the faucet, I expect water. When I flip a switch, I expect the light to come on. When I pick up the phone, I expect to be able to make a call. When I punch the remote, I...
View Article40/100 GbE Ready
Only 176 shopping days until Christmas. And, before you know it, you’ll be testing 40 GbE or 100 GbE solutions. These things tend to creep up on you. You may not be the type to think about Christmas...
View ArticleTest Case Automation – The Gift That Keeps Giving
A while back we talked about test lab automation (see Advanced Test Automation), which is returning sanity to test labs all over the globe. In that post I made this statement: "If you haven’t automated...
View ArticleRealism and Multi-Play - Part 1 NEMs
Find and fix your bugs before your customers find them for you Remember what Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise in A Few Good Men? “You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the kind of thing you don’t want a...
View ArticleWhen Data Centers Collide - A Modern Fable Of A Lost Lunch
Last week I almost did lunch with a friend, an IT guy. We picked a new deli close to his office and, after a long wait, I finally had a nice Reuben all alone. I texted him and he texted back with...
View ArticleIPTV - What to Test
IPTV is on the rise, more quickly in some places than in others. While some areas have already hit double-digit market penetration, others, like the US, are still in single digits. Growth rates vary by...
View ArticleWhy Test Realism Matters Or When traffic goes up and websites go down
Maybe it only seemed like the world stopped for the Michael Jackson memorial on July 7, but there’s one thing we know for sure that did stop. The City of Los Angeles set up a website to accept...
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Going Green in the Data Center
Maybe it’s not easy being green, as the infamous flannel frog pointed out decades ago, but being un-green is no picnic, either. Many data center managers rate their top three concerns as security,...
View ArticleThe 40/100G Ethernet Testing: Business As Usual?
Everybody’s talking about 40/100G Ethernet. It will replace SONET in a decade. It’s a revenue playground for those with the vision and expertise to deliver in a timely fashion with quality and...
View ArticleTesting Virtualization
It’s no secret what’s driving the move to virtualization in data centers. The demand for new and expanded software systems is growing, but the geographic and carbon footprint required for scaling...
View ArticleEthernet - Is faster fast enough?
Modern wisdom says you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much bandwidth. There may be some debate about the first two, but it appears that the third is right on the money. In the discussion...
View ArticleEnd Of Life or Beginning of Productivity?
The announcement that Agilent is taking the N2X platform to end of life (EOL) in 2015 raises questions about testing strategy for many customers. An EOL announcement is inevitably disruptive to...
View ArticleEnd Of Life Questions: Development and Support
An end-of-life (EOL) announcement on a product that is an integral part of your test strategy is disruptive to schedules, and possibly revenue, as gap analysis is done and transition plans are formed....
View ArticleEnd Of Life Questions: Alternatives and Sunk Cost
An end-of-life (EOL) announcement on a product that is an integral part of your test strategy is disruptive to schedules, and possibly revenue, as gap analysis is done and transition plans are formed....
View ArticleEnd Of Life Questions: Automation and Transition Plans
An end-of-life (EOL) announcement on a product that is an integral part of your test strategy is disruptive to schedules, and possibly revenue, as gap analysis is done and transition plans are formed....
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