Spirent Announces Elevate Test Framework

Saul Einbinder, Spirent's VP for Venture Development announces the company's new product, the Elevate Test Framework featured at CTIA's Super Mobility Week.

Saul outlines three things they hear consistently from customers when it comes to testing that prompted the creation of this product:

1. Test equipment is big, expensive and hard to move, so it's late in the cycle. Customers want smaller, lighter gear to push testing earlier in the cycle.

2. VoLTE is REALLY different. Unlike previous technologies, it requires device-to-device communication to work instead of just relying on the pre-established connection to the network. Therefore, device-to-device testing must enter the ecosystem now.

3. New entrants in the wireless ecosystem are emerging that aren't experts at wireless, such as connected car manufacturers or other M2M device creators. These companies need testing to happen at the application level they are familiar with.

Spirent Elevate is a powerful network of resources designed to address the increasingly complex testing challenges and scale demands of the wireless industry. Providing a unique open test architecture, Elevate disrupts the status quo in test and measurement and delivers a higher level of testing that enables faster time-to-market and improved user experience.

Spirent Elevate breaks the “box” testing model by separating hardware from software, making use of virtualization and organizing test elements and resources into an open architecture. The framework encompasses instrumentation, emulated and live services, an open API, automated and interactive testing, analytics that cross all phases of wireless device development, and shareable test results for comprehensive collaboration.

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