Telecom Equipment Manufacturer Accelerates Development and Testing of LTE Network Products

Telecommunications equipment maker accelerates LTE network products testing and development using BreakingPoint's massive-scale mobility testing solution to validate 3G and LTE/4G device performance and security

Challenge: Validate 3G and LTE Device Performance and Accuracy

A major telecom equipment manufacturer develops innovative equipment to support 3G and LTE wireless network services, including a device that monitors traffic patterns from millions of users simultaneously. This product helps service providers optimize network configurations and improve customer offerings by delivering insight into customer behavior. The equipment manufacturer needs a solution to validate its device’s performance under highly accurate conditions for 3G and LTE/4G networks and to minimize the risk associated with deploying its groundbreaking equipment.

Solution: Simulate Massive-Scale Wireless Network Traffic

Using BreakingPoint Cyber Tomography Machines (CTMs), the telecom equipment maker simulates large-scale wireless network traffic to efficiently test the performance and accuracy of its equipment, conduct product enhancement, and expand innovation. BreakingPoint also provides unmatched scalability to accommodate the company’s massive testing requirements through a single-screen LTE Test Lab and extensive automation.

"The BreakingPoint CTM meets our needs by creating authentic application traffic encapsulated in GTP tunnels at enormous scale. It also automates many aspects of testing so we can eliminate repetitive configuration and reporting tasks. BreakingPoint has become a key part of our development processes."

—Product Development Director, Telecom Equipment Manufacturer

Results: Accelerated Development and Testing of LTE Network Products

BreakingPoint provides the only mobility testing solutions capable of creating the behavior of millions of wireless network users, application traffic over mobile tunnels, and live attacks. Only this level of authenticity could meet the equipment developer’s needs for product enhancement and innovation. The equipment manufacturer now efficiently tests its equipment’s performance and accuracy by using the BreakingPoint CTM product to:

• Simulate three million wireless subscribers at once as they use smartphones, tablet computers, and netbooks to connect to LTE networks via thousands of eNodeBs.
• Encapsulate up to 30 million application flows traveling in GTPv1 tunnels for 3G networks or GTPv2 tunnels for LTE/4G networks.
• Create the rich media complexity found in real wireless network traffic with more than 150 application protocols, including dozens of clients for peer-to-peer file-sharing protocols such as BitTorrent.
• Emulate the precise timing and sequence of user interactions, including the long idle sessions and bursts of activity typical for mobile social media applications such as Twitter and Facebook.
• Simulate security threats with more than 30,000 attacks, including more than 100 pieces of mobile malware.
• Maintain the most current real-world network conditions with updates from BreakingPoint’s dedicated Application and Threat Intelligence research team.

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