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Consider automated solutions for testing, assurance, and validation as a company's speed boost and safety net combined. The complexity of today's networks, applications, and gadgets is significantly more than what humans can manually test or monitor. Before it reaches clients, these solutions ensure that everything functions properly, safely, and dependably. They save money, time, and enable companies the courage to develop without worrying about unnoticed flaws or vulnerabilities.
Without them, the chances of accidents, outages, or security breaches are too great. It's like launching a jet without doing a pre-flight inspection. This can result in lost revenue, irate clients, legal issues, and long-term harm to a business's brand. To put it briefly, they are about trust, safety, and sustaining innovation rather than just technology. This is the role of Spirent Communications plc, a top worldwide supplier of automated test, assurance, and validation solutions for new technologies, including 5G, Wi-Fi, cloud virtualization, Open RAN, IoT, and high-speed Ethernet, as well as networks, cybersecurity, and location.
About Spirent Communications plc
Spirent is the top supplier of automated test and assurance solutions for positioning, networks, and cybersecurity worldwide. They support your pledge to provide your clients with cutting-edge technologies. Spirent automated test and assurance solutions guarantee that new goods and services function in the real world and speed up technological development in the lab.
The test, assurance, and automation problems of a new generation of technologies—5G, SD-WAN, Cloud, Autonomous Vehicles, and more—are met by Spirent's cutting-edge range of goods and services.
Every year, Spirent fulfills the commitments made to its clients by over 1,500 clients across a variety of industries, including financial services, healthcare, retail, government, aerospace, defense, and communications.
Solutions delivering strategic technology-led services
In order to confidently deliver excellence in strategic technology-led services, Spirent's Global Business Services organization has grown to assist its clients in solving larger business problems.
Next-Gen Innovation with Consulting Services
With professional assistance in a number of crucial areas, Spirent's consulting services are intended to assist businesses in accelerating the adoption of next-generation technology. These services, which enable clients to successfully implement complex, future-ready solutions, include strategy formulation, planning and design, network architecture and engineering, and test techniques. Apart from advising, Spirent provides Managed Solutions, which offer testing and assurance services as a scalable service to speed innovation while cutting costs, and Professional Services, which offer worldwide test and assurance capabilities to validate installations. The full range of strategy to execution in high-performance network environments is covered by featured specialized offerings such as 5G Network Benchmarking, Fit4Launch Certification as a Service, SecurityLabs, and Test as a Service for Wi-Fi Devices, and PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) Testing Services.
Empowering Validation with Professional Services
Designed to speed up product development and guarantee faultless performance from lab settings to real deployments, Spirent's Professional Services are extensive test and assurance capabilities provided globally by a highly skilled team of professionals. These services include pre-launch Fit4Launch certification across mobile networks and devices, 5G network benchmarking, targeted consulting to support networking strategy, SecurityLabs for finding and fixing vulnerabilities, Test as a Service for Wi-Fi device performance, and professional PNT (Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) Testing Services. To assist clients in becoming proficient with their solutions, Spirent also offers free online training as well as practical, instructor-led workshops.
The Managed Solutions Advantage
Utilizing cutting-edge continuous integration, delivery, and testing (CI/CD/CT) methodologies, Spirent's Managed Solutions offer extensive testing and assurance capabilities as a service, enabling businesses—particularly those in the cloud and telecom industries—to innovate more quickly while cutting expenses and complexity. In order to expedite time to market, enhance collaboration, and preserve quality and security in both lab and live environments, these solutions cover a wide range of services, such as Test as a Service (TaaS) offerings like Certification as a Service and Lab as a Service, SecurityLabs for proactive vulnerability detection, Fit4Launch certification for pre-launch validation, 5G Network Benchmarking, and customized Professional and Consulting Services.
Spirent Communications plc Solutions
Spirent is more than simply an automation, test, and assurance specialist. They possess extensive knowledge of the most recent advancements in timing, location, network, and navigation technology. Spirent offers automated test and assurance solutions to handle your unique issues, ranging from edge computing to 5G.
5G Network Testing & Assurance
By simplifying complexity throughout the entire lifecycle—from lab to live deployment—Spirent's 5G Network Testing & Assurance platform assists service providers and businesses in deploying and managing next-generation 5G networks with confidence. The solution provides a wide range of features, such as automated core validation to guarantee effective and dependable 5G Core rollouts, end-to-end service assurance for complete visibility, creative use of network digital twins for precise simulations, robust security testing to handle new 5G threats, and resiliency testing via chaos engineering to proactively reinforce fault tolerance. Additionally, by providing flexible, on-demand testing models that promote cost effectiveness and a quicker time to market, Spirent's "Test as a Service" (TaaS) speeds up deployments.
Open RAN Testing
Open RAN Testing from Spirent, also known as O-RAN Test & Assurance, is a thorough, vendor-neutral testing framework intended to make the challenges of implementing disaggregated RAN designs easier to handle. It allows for comprehensive validation of multi-vendor interoperability, performance, security, compliance, and real-world behavior across individual nodes (O-RU, O-DU, O-CU, and RIC) as well as end-to-end network configurations by providing real-time, bi-directional emulation under a single automated user interface. Spirent's solution offers simplified automation and a unified user experience with full KPI, statistic, and log visibility by integrating smoothly into CI/CD pipelines through subscription-based access to pre-built test libraries and open APIs.
SD-WAN/SASE Test & Assurance
Spirent's SD-WAN/SASE Test & Assurance solutions simplify and safeguard the intricacies of contemporary SD-WAN and SASE deployments by providing independent, vendor-neutral testing. Spirit has developed a three-step paradigm that enables enterprises better manage security policies and network behaviors in response to the dramatic change toward cloud-centric, remote operations, particularly after COVID. This approach allows safe SD-WAN to function at its best. By combining cutting-edge techniques that tackle issues at the service and application layers, their method reimagines conventional infrastructure testing and guarantees thorough validation of performance, security, and resilience prior to deployment.
Promoting Innovation, Safety, and Trust in a Connected World
By providing automated testing, assurance, and validation solutions that guarantee dependability, security, and performance, Spirent Communications enables companies to confidently adopt next-generation technologies. Spirent helps businesses expand faster while fostering enduring consumer trust by preserving innovation and streamlining complexity.
Eric Updyke | CEO
Spirent Communications' chief executive officer is Eric Updyke. Eric has over 30 years of experience in the communications sector and has spearheaded worldwide transformational development initiatives. As CEO, Eric is focused on generating sustainable, profitable development as he seeks to make Spirent the leader and trusted partner for breakthrough technology test and assurance solutions.
In April 2019, Eric left Amdocs' Executive Management team to join Spirent. As Group President, Services at Amdocs Ltd., he was in charge of the whole Managed Services, Testing, and SI divisions, which employed 10,000 people and generated around $2 billion in sales. He was in charge of the connection with North American communications service providers while serving as Division President for North America at Amdocs, where he oversaw a $1 billion P&L. Eric has held leadership positions at AT&T and Nokia Siemens Networks before joining Amdocs.
Eric graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA in finance. He is also a member of Symend's Board of Directors.
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