LTE Testing: Measure and Harden Resiliency

Use real applications and security attacks to simulate millions of users texting, talking, gaming, spreading malware, and more

Telecom carriers rolling out Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 4G networks must test mobile infrastructures efficiently and accurately under punishing real-world conditions, without spending a fortune to do it. Achieving this requires a product capable of creating user actions with real applications and attacks. It is the only way to accurately subject systems to the behavior of millions of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices as they generate and consume huge amounts of data, including malware and fragmented traffic.

LTE Testing Challenges

Service providers and equipment manufacturers must have confidence that their wireless infrastructure devices can handle the user load, application traffic, and security challenges of LTE/4G networks. Traditional testing tools have proved inadequate because they:

• Cannot provide real-world mixes of voice, video, application, and attack traffic at line-rate speeds.
• Require costly and time-consuming integration of multiple tools, security research, and racks of processing hardware.
• Cannot scale cost-effectively to emulate millions of wireless users.
• Fail to accurately measure how an infrastructure will perform when deployed.

BreakingPoint LTE Performance and Security Testing Solution

BreakingPoint CTM products answer this challenge with the industry’s most sophisticated, authentic, and cost-effective Internet-scale LTE emulation. Working with an intuitive single-screen interface and a single comprehensive, easy-to-maintain device, users can:

• Point and click to create the behavior of millions of concurrent mobile users streaming video, texting, chatting, purchasing music, posting photos on Facebook®, or unknowingly sharing the latest malware.
• Emulate key LTE network components, including millions of UEs and thousands of eNodeBs, plus Mobility Management Entities (MMEs) and Serving Gateways (SGWs).
• Evaluate application-aware devices in both 3G and LTE environments with support for GTPv1 and GTPv2.
• Validate per-UE accounting, billing, and policy mechanisms.

Download our LTE data sheet and technical specifications.

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