Spirent and China Mobile Partner to Explore Best Practices of Test Refactoring in the 5G C-RAN Project
12 October 2017 - 4:14AM
Business Wire
Spirent presents at the second China Mobile 5G
C-RAN Wireless Cloud Network Forum
Spirent Communications (LSE:SPT) announced today it has signed
an agreement to partner with the China Mobile 5G Joint Innovation
Center Project. As part of the first phase of the 5G C-RAN project,
Spirent and the China Mobile 5G C-RAN Working Group successfully
completed automated performance testing. During the second China
Mobile 5G C-RAN Wireless Cloud Network Forum, Spirent presented the
current outcomes and outlined the test practices used in
refactoring for the China Mobile 5GC-RAN project.
In this project, the cloud architecture of the radio access
network is viewed as the basis for carrying various future 5G
applications. The cloud-enabled radio access network not only needs
to ensure the coverage and capacity of basic voice communication
services, but also the bandwidth demands of fast-growing extreme
Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services, as well as the IoT and Cargo
Network applications that offer large connectivity, low latency and
high reliability with high network quality requirements.
Due to the technical characteristics of the 5G C-RAN, testing
requirements for the underlying cloud architecture are different
from those of other NFVs and public clouds. The test system can no
longer use the traditional black box test method. It must adapt to
work with multiple components such as VNFs, VIM, NFVi and SDN
controllers and then must be able to validate various NFVi network
acceleration and system real-time technologies, referred to as test
refactoring.
Test refactoring at its core utilizes continuous debugging and
optimization with a proven methodology, repeatable tests, and
centralized analysis on test data, to achieve a compromise between
various optimization parameters for the cloud platform and
simultaneously find acceptable performance levels.
During the forum, Mr. Jacky Wu, Business Development Director
for Spirent Communications, presented the NFVi automated
performance test system developed by Spirent in collaboration with
the China Mobile 5G C-RAN Working Group, and explained the group’s
test refactoring concept. According to Mr. Wu, “It is the first
automated performance testing system in the industry specifically
designed for 5G C-RAN covering performance tests for cloud
platforms using both SR-IOV and DPDK network acceleration
technologies.”
Abhitesh Kastuar, Spirent’s General Manager for cloud and IP,
adds, “By automating NFVi performance testing frameworks, tests
that used to take several weeks or even months can now be completed
in a few days, thus, greatly increasing test efficiency.” Kastuar
commented on the partnership, “Spirent is strongly committed to the
5G C-RAN project, and will continue to make contributions to
accelerate the maturity of the C-RAN industry and the
commercialization of C-RAN devices.”
The NFVi automated performance test system used in the tests,
included Spirent TestCenter hardware and Spirent TestCenter Virtual
for traffic generation. These were used to simulate and analyze
data traffic on the cloud platform under test and to evaluate the
vSwitch forwarding performance of independent computing nodes or
multi-node systems supporting DPDK technology on 10G/25G/40G
interface speeds. Spirent CloudStress was also used to emulate the
VNF workloads and automation of test scenarios and spinning up of
VMs was orchestrated using Spirent’s iTest platform.
For more information on Spirent SDN/NFV testing solutions,
please visit http://www.spirent.cn/Solutions/SDN-NFV-Solutions.
About Spirent Communications plc
Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT) is the leading provider
of verification, assessment, analytics, and device intelligence
solutions. We enable those who deliver networks, connected devices,
and communication services to provide a superior user experience.
From service provider networks and enterprise data centers to
mobile communications and connected vehicles, Spirent works with
leading innovators to help the world communicate and collaborate
faster, better, and more securely.
For more information visit:
http://www.spirent.com/About-Us/News_Room.
About China Mobile
As the leading telecommunications services provider in Mainland
China, China Mobile provides full communications services in all 31
provinces, autonomous regions and directly-administered
municipalities throughout Mainland China and in Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region, and boasts the world's largest mobile
network and the world's largest mobile customer base. Its
businesses primarily consist of mobile voice and data business,
wireline broadband and other information and communications
services. http://www.chinamobileltd.com/en/about/overview.php
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