Leading webcast and streaming event provider deploys Emblasoft Evolver
How to test and validate webcast and live event streaming services
A leading provider of hosted webcast and virtual streaming events has built a reputation for outstanding quality and viewer experience – but must maintain this as it enjoys rapid growth as a digital engagement platform.
To assure user Quality of Experience, validate traffic loads, and test new applications before release the company turned to Emblasoft’s Evolver for help.
Emblasoft Evolver is a comprehensive platform for testing and validating network performance and service quality across any network, from 2G to 5G.
How do you protect your SS7 roaming connections to meet GSMA FS.11 guidelines?
Vulnerability testing and protection for SS7, Diameter and other protocols with Emblasoft Active Monitoring
Active monitoring and testing enable operators and vendors to perform SS7 vulnerability testing – validating the performance of firewalls and checking that monitoring procedures can identify bogus or rogue messages.
Emblasoft's Active Monitoring tools can identify any security weaknesses in existing and new SS7, Diameter or other protocol attacks on a continuous basis, enabling operators and vendors to meet FS.11 guidelines.
With Emblasoft's Active Monitoring tools, you can:
Simulate traffic to test against firewalls or any SS7 defences
Monitor nodes continuously to validate performance
Ensure the security of all roaming interconnections
Radtonics: Automated performance
testing of LTE and 5G core
Radtonics deploys Emblasoft Evolver to
test its LTE and 5G mobile core
Radtonics, a provider of private wireless networks, needed to perform automated Performance and Availability test cases on its LTE and 5G mobile core, and so turned to Emblasoft for help.
As a trusted provider of private wireless networks, Radtonics promises its customers
“operational continuity and guaranteed service capacity”, with guaranteed capacity at required locations as and when it’s needed, as well as scalability for future needs. Radtonics turned to Emblasoft to ensure that its architecture, with its mobile core, can deliver on these promises.
Emblasoft delivers:
Automated testing and monitoring for control and user plane applications
A fully virtualised solution
Server emulation for end-to-end feature testing
Testing that ensures absolute scalability and performance
How to solve the challenge of high-throughput stateful mobile traffic testing for Tier 1 operators
Testing with Evolver ensures services scale and validates vendor claims
A leading network equipment vendor needed to demonstrate to a Tier 1 operator customer that a solution it had delivered could handle the promised load and perform as expected with different traffic models on 4G network elements.
It had tried to do so with an existing test solution, but was unable to reach the required performance levels and lacked flexibility to model the specific traffic flows demanded.
The vendor turned to Emblasoft to:
Simulate extreme volumes of application traffic - 80Gb/s throughput - to ensure absolute scalability and performance.
Achieve the scalability and flexibility to simulate the desired traffic model.
Prove that it could deliver the promised performance to the operator.
Validating migration to virtual EPC – do virtual assets really deliver?
Verification of your virtual EPC and IMS investments
Operators are migrating to the virtual EPC, as part of transformation efforts. It’s essential to ensure that virtual EPC investments deliver the expected performance levels, so that there is no negative impact on services or subscribers. Effective testing is critical.
Like many operators, T-Mobile Croatia had an ambitious programme to deploy new, fully virtualised EPC core infrastructure in a
secure cloud environment. Learn how Emblasoft helped T-Mobile Croatia:
Conduct a complete range of
tests on new architecture, from a single, automated platform.
Create a working replica of the live network to test real network conditions.
Test signalling and user plan traffic to
ensure the desired performance could be obtained.
Helping Queen Mary University of London to cope with unprecedented student demand
Flexible testing for agile validation of SIP-based contact centres.
Many sectors experience surges in inbound calls and it’s essential to ensure that service platforms and call handling solutions can cope with the surge. Can they flex up to meet demand? Can they ensure that calls are distributed effectively, to avoid long waiting times?
Find out how one leading academic institution – Queen Mary University of London – prepared for a surge in voice traffic and ensured its network could cope.
Learn how Emblasoft's powerful SIP test solution enables:
Generate high volumes of simulated user traffic.
Model different flows and call scenarios to emulate call distribution.
Fully integrate planned testing into an
agile test environment.
Verification of UPF nodes in 5G standalone networks
How to verify UPF functions, model large volumes of traffic, and test performance in DevOps environments
The UPF plays a key role in the 5G network to realise the promises of low latency and high throughput.
To be sure it delivers and meets performance demands for all services, effective, continuous testing is required – in an automated environment.
Download our new case study to learn how Emblasoft can support vendors like Kaloom, a provider of fully programmable and automated
cloud-native networking software solutions, to validate 5G standalone network functions with a feature-rich and highly versatile test solution. Learn how to:
Simulate UE traffic from gNodeB and traffic for 5G SBA nodes and functions.
Support DevOps processes with a feature-rich and highly versatile test solution.
Increase customer satisfaction, reduce operational faults, and ensure a clear scalability strategy after deployment.
Verification and automated active monitoring in the world’s first multi-vendor 5G SA Core solution
Emblasoft provides end-to-end validation for the world’s first cloud-native 5G SA Core deployment with Telenor
Telenor, and eight world-leading enterprise vendors, have shown for the first time that the 5G vision can be fully realised with a proven standalone, ready-to-ship commercial solution.
Emblasoft provided end-to-end functionality testing and automated active monitoring in a GLOMO award-winning, multi-vendor, cloud-native, Open Architecture 5G Core trial. Learn how Emblasoft helped validate the '5G vision':
A commercially available 5G end-to end testing suite deployment based on open standards, supporting Kubernetes and compliant to 3GPP Release 15.
Performance testing of 5G cloud native user plane network functions.
Supporting end-to-end 5G network slicing and validation of vertical use case of encrypted communication.
Electryon: How do you test 5G SA control-plane signalling for roaming?
Testing SA 5G SBA control-plane signalling for roaming without a 5G Core
On the road to 5G system roaming
Testing 5G SA control-plane signalling is now a necessity for operators to ensure that they are ready for 5G SA roaming - and the revenue opportunities it brings. But there lies the challenge. How can you test 5G SA control-plane signalling for roaming without a 5G Core?
Learn how Emblasoft, together with Electryon, a consulting and professional services company, performed SEPP testing and verification over a simulated 5G Core for a Tier 1, multi-national operator.
With Emblasoft's cutting-edge 5G testing capabilities, operators can:
Test 5G SA control-plane signalling for roaming and enable in-depth validation of different 5G roaming scenarios.
Simulate all Network Functions in the 5G core connected to vSEPP, hSEPP, and SEPP Hub.
Automate testing to support CI/CD processes.
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Automated testing of RCS over multiple protocols and test case scenarios
Validating RCS with comprehensive load and functional testing
A Tier One MNO based in Europe needed to automate testing of its RCS offer under a broader DevOps initiative. Emblasoft enabled over 300 test cases by simulating originating (sender) and terminating (receiver) mobile clients to enable the MNO to fully validate the RCS capabilities it offers to customers and B2B partners.
With Emblasoft, MNOs can:
Test multiple simultaneous call flows and scenarios.
Mimic realistic RCS user behaviours, within a DevOps environment.
Support multiple protocols such as MSRP, SIP and HTTP, and others.
Selecting KPIs for validating VoLTE and EPC performance
Comprehensive performance testing with Emblasoft
What KPIs matter when executing performance tests for key network functions, such as VoLTE and the EPC?
Every operator has a unique network environment and must meet different KPIs, as well as SLAs for their customers. As a result, operators need the flexibility to test what matters in their network for different scenarios and for different metrics.
Find out how Emblasoft enabled T-Mobile to execute flexible performance testing for its unique cloud environment. Featuring:
Performance testing for different traffic patterns in a fully virtual environment
Creating a testing template for each component – and end-to-end – for all future activities
Setting performance thresholds and dimension systems accurately
How active monitoring helped Telenor to assure QoS delivery
Assuring mission critical slices and applications to enable MNOs to monetise new 5G SA-based services
The delivery of new, differentiated services is critical to the success of 5G SA investments. Much is expected – but MNOs must be able to assure these services and guarantee that they can deliver the performance expected by valuable customers and partners.
Read our case study to learn how Telenor used Emblasoft’s active monitoring solution to validate mission critical service performance, in different slices in a fully automated, multi-vendor 5G core.
With Emblasoft, MNOs can:
Ensure that QoS requirements are met, in different slices
Isolate and detect any variation of QoS
Automate alarms for triggering for dynamic assurance actions
Validating interworking policy functions between 5G and 4G networks
How to support validation for any interworking function from legacy to 5G
Ensure effective interworking across any use case
Evolution to 5G SA brings new requirements for delivering services across hybrid networks, spanning multiple generations of technology.
One provider of sophisticated data management solutions for network operators needed to ensure that its new PCF solution could also interact with legacy platforms to deliver policy-enabled services. Emblasoft’s Evolver solution can be deployed to successfully validate interworking between the new, 5G PCF and legacy network environments, including PCRF-enabled 4G networks.
With Emblasoft, solution providers and operators can:
Validate and performance test interdomain policy control
