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Hammer for IMS Test solutions for the transition to IMS
Empirix is the leading provider of Voice and Web application testing and monitoring solutions
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Hammer for IMS Test solutions for the transition to IMS
The Challenge of IMS
The Empirix Advantage
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is a critical initiative for both network equipment manufacturers and their service provider customers. IMS will ultimately simplify service delivery, reduce costs, and increase innovation. However, migration to IMS is a difficult undertaking that introduces many unique challenges:
Be confident in your transition to IMS with Empirix IMS test solutions.
Enormous Complexity IMS requires support of many protocols, defines dozens of standalone functions, and specifies support for even more network interfaces, making design and deployment of IMS networks and products more difficult than ever.
Standards Ambiguity IMS standards are immature and in a constant state of flux. What is implemented today may not be compliant in the future. Numerous updates and changes will be needed to keep up with ongoing improvements to the IMS architecture along the way.
Multi-Vendor and Network Interoperability IMS is designed to allow interoperability among different vendors. However, with ambiguous and changing standards, achieving this goal among vendors with different perspectives can be particularly frustrating.
Extensive Experience Testing New and Complex Network Technologies Hammer for IMS is built on trusted Hammer test and measurement technology that has been deployed in thousands of network infrastructure vendors and service providers over the past decade. Empirix has a long track record in helping vendors and service providers successfully transition to new technologies including CTI, TDM/Intelligent Networks, VoIP, NGN, and now IMS.
Flexible Signaling for Evolving IMS Standards Our Signaling State Machine does not lock you into a single interpretation of any protocol standard. Our simple interface allows you to quickly modify headers and add extensions to all of our supported protocols.
Advanced Automation Solutions to Simplify Complex Testing Simplify complex test scenarios with automated emulation of IMS devices, infrastructure, endusers, and applications.
Sustained Leadership in VoIP, SIP, and IMS Increasing Customer Expectations End-users care about the quality and variety of services offered to them, not the technology used to deliver these services. The challenges of IMS deployment must be hidden to the end-user and new services must exceed customer expectations to ensure success.
Frost and Sullivan has identified Empirix as the market share leader in IMS voice test and monitoring! We have been testing SIP, the core of IMS, in a variety of carriergrade environments since 1999, longer than any other test vendor. Empirix is also an active thought-leader and is involved in many leading industry groups and interoperability forums.
Hammer for IMS – Be Confident in IMS, Every Step of the Way The transition to IMS can be daunting without the right tools. Ensuring a high-level quality of experience for the end-user can only be achieved by testing at every phase of the IMS lifecycle, from R&D prototyping to final network operation and beyond. Whether you are a development engineer looking for a software-based solution for your laptop, or a carrier supporting tens of millions of customers across fixed and mobile networks, Empirix has the most comprehensive IMS test solution.
Solutions for Infrastructure Vendors
Solutions for Service Providers
Research and Development
Vendor Qualification and Interoperability
IMS starts with the development of a single network device. Hammer for IMS offers software-only solutions for comprehensive testing and analysis including emulation of other IMS network devices.
IMS increases vendor options and allows you to mix-andmatch network components from best-of-breed vendors. Hammer for IMS includes analysis and feature testing tools to verify your suppliers interoperate with your current and future vendors.
Quality Assurance and Production Ensuring quality is more difficult than ever. Whether you offer an end-to-end system or a single device, Hammer for IMS includes a broad array of flexible test solutions to automate every phase of QA testing.
Interoperability Testing Interoperability is not just a problem for service providers. To achieve success in IMS vendors must prove they can interoperate with other vendors. Hammer for IMS includes interoperability testing verification, and diagnostic tools for simulating your customers’ network and other vendors’ devices.
Field Service and Support Post-deployment bugs in complex networks are inevitable. Hammer for IMS provides tools that allow you to remotely isolate, diagnose, replicate, and resolve problems before they become critical.
Pre-deployment Trials Scalable networks require scalable testing tools that simulate real-world networks, not an ideal lab environment. Hammer for IMS includes test tools that scale from several calls from a few end-points to over 1,200 calls per second and 250,000 endpoints in an emulated network environment that models your actual network with simulated network failures.
Deployment and Maintenance Ensuring quality for your users is an on-going activity. Hammer for IMS includes troubleshooting, analysis, and problem replication tools. Empirix even offers proactive network monitoring solutions that alert you to problems before your customers do.
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Hammer for IMS Test solutions for the transition to IMS
Solutions for Evolving Networks Hammer for IMS is an extensive portfolio of best-in-class solutions for device, systems, and end-to-end network testing.
Legacy Migration
Load and Network Sizing
Few service providers have the luxury of deploying IMS in a greenfield environment. Support of existing network technologies is critical. Hammer for IMS simplifies testing in mixedprotocol environments with support of legacy and pre-IMS protocols including analog, CAS, ISDN, QSIG, SS7, H.323, and MGCP with common user interfaces and scripting tools.
Knowing how your network scales, where it falters, and how it reacts under failure conditions is essential, especially in a multivendor, multi-device IMS environment. Hammer for IMS includes load testing, packet network emulation, and analysis tools for end-to-end stress testing and network sizing.
Performance Analysis User/Device Emulation End-user and device behavior can become very complex from the network point of view, especially in the IMS environment with numerous protocols and services. Hammer for IMS offers flexible scripting and protocol tools that allow you to automate testing of common and unexpected behavior.
How is your network performing? Network problems often emerge well after a network has been tested and deployed. Hammer for IMS includes proactive network monitoring and performance analysis to let you know your IMS network’s health and identify problems before your customers do.
Analysis and Troubleshooting Media Quality Testing IMS incorporates various types and new combinations of media. To meet customer expectations, media quality must be ensured in this new environment. Hammer for IMS includes VoIP and media quality testing that uses a variety of real human voice prompts instead of unrealistic voice simulations.
Quick identification, isolation, and analysis of problems is critical to achieving fast time-to-market and high customer satisfaction. Hammer for IMS allows you to tunnel through entire networks, individual components, and even individual call-flows and media streams to recreate, troubleshoot, and analyze problems.
Solutions for IMS Devices Network equipment and infrastructure vendors face a variety of new test challenges as they migrate NGN products to IMS and develop new IMS products. Different products have different testing needs. Hammer for IMS provides a variety of specialized test solutions for: •
End-to-end system vendors developing multiple products
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System integrators integrating products from multiple vendors
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Network component vendors developing specialized, bestof-breed components
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Application developers creating IMS services
Hammer for IMS includes a variety of test solutions to meet the unique testing needs of any device. •
Feature Test-guarantee applications and services perform as intended
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System Test-confirm your device works as part of a multidevice system that may include other vendors' products
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Load Test-characterize the performance and scalability of your device
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Isolation Test-troubleshoot a device in isolation by emulating the network and surrounding devices
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Regression Test-verify bug fixes and upgrades do not introduce new problems
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Negative Test-make certain your device responds correctly to non-standard conditions and behaviors
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Media Quality Test-prove a high level of voice, video, and fax quality performance
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Analysis and Troubleshooting-quickly identify and resolve complex media issues in the lab and in the field
IMS Products Tested
IMS Functions Tested
Application Servers
AS, OSA-SCS, IM-SSF, SCIM, VCCF
Border Elements, Gateways
A-BGF, T-MGF, SGF, IWF, I-BGF
Charging Servers
CTF, CDF, CGF, OCF
Gateway Controllers
BGCF, MGCF, I-BCF
Subscriber Databases
HSS, SLF
Media Servers
MRFC, MRFP
Policy and Resource Servers
PDF, NASS, RACS
Session Controllers
S-CSCF, I-CSCF, P-CSCF
Hammer for IMS Features IP Signaling - SIP : IMS UE emulation, IMS Extensions, SIP-I, SIP-T*, SIP over TLS - MGCP/NCS, MEGACO/H.248, H.323 V4, Diameter,SIGTRAN (IUA and M3UA), Cisco SCCP (Skinny) - IPV4, IPV6 - UDP, TCP, SCTP - Highly configurable message content and state behavior - Clear Channel; No Call Control
Analog and TDM Signaling-FXO Loopstart -
CAS, ISDN-PRI, SS7, ISUP, TUP, and MTP Low level IE and message programmability Extensive international variant support Clear Channel support
Media Handling - Real voice prompts generation and detection over narrowband and wideband codecs in both wireless and wireline environments - Voice quality analysis with PESQ (P.862), PAMS, or PSQM (P.861) - Single tones and DTMF generation and detection (incl. RFC 2833) - T.30 and T.38 fax generation and detection - MPEG-4 and H.263 video play/record - Integrated Nuance speech recognition for IVR test
TestBuilder: The Fastest Way to Build Simple Tests - Industry-standard ladder diagram and call flow icons for intuitive test creation - Create sending and receiving side tests with no script generation required - Predefined tests for faster and easier testing
Enhanced Hammer Visual Basic: Maximum Flexibility and Control - Flexible, comprehensive scripting environment - Import and modify TestBuilder scripts - Support for conditional branching allows users to customize test scripts - Import previously developed scripts from other Hammer test platforms
Signaling Editor: Customize Message Content and Sequence - Flexible, state-based architecture provides comprehensive negative test capability - Develop call flows specific to your application and devices under test - Create your own messages, or customize existing ones
Configurable Test Scheduling - Test scheduling options including traffic profiles and multiple call flows - Per channel, mixed media test scheduling - Run multiple tests simultaneously
Hammer for IMS provides testing tools that allow you to be confident in IMS: • Confident you can wade through the complexities of IMS. • Confident you can keep pace with changes in IMS. • Confident your products can adjust with changing business relationships. • Confident in the quality of your products and services.
Real-Time Monitoring and Reporting - Real-time monitoring and reporting of call statistics and errors - Monitor activity on all channels or on a single channel - Comprehensive report set and data management - Predefined test reports for simplified test analysis - Export test data to other applications for customized user reports
Infrastructure Device Emulation - Emulate a wide range of IMS and VoIP devices for testing at a fraction of the cost of the actual network devices - Minimizes lab space, availability, and management issues with procuring network devices from multiple vendors - Flexible platform allows for multiple emulations of different vendor-specific devices to be configured and monitored using a single-user client - Pre-packaged device templates make it easy for users to create emulations “out of the box” - Easy-to-use template creation and modification components make the Hammer platform extensible to meet changing testing requirements
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