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Empirix Unveils Hammer G5—the Most Complete VoIP Test Platform Available Today
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Ensuring quality in today’s VoIP, NGN, and IMS devices and networks requires multiple testing stages and test types, each with their own unique test requirements and personnel. This complexity can mean significant investment throughout the product development and service deployment lifecycles.
Empirix’s fifth-generation Hammer G5 simplifies the test environment and maximizes the value of your testing investment. Hammer G5 combines extensive feature testing and ultra-scalable load testing in a single GUI to create a comprehensive test environment that can be used throughout the testing lifecycle—from early stage unit testing in R&D to service verification in trial labs.
Since 1992, the Hammer product line has been focused on the end-to-end user experience, with a particular emphasis on voice applications. The new Hammer G5 platform is built on Empirix’s Hammer FX VoIP feature testing platform and Hammer NXT high-density VoIP load test platform, offering the combined capabilities of both in a unified user and programming interface. Fifteen Years of (Empirix) Hammer, which appeared on vonmag.com, says “The fifth generation product represents 15 years of experience in real-time application testing” for Empirix.
In If VoIP Had a Hammer: It’d hammer out functional, load testing all over this LAN, SD Times reports, “Hammer G5 offers, for the first time, the ability to test push-to-talk systems such as those offered by Sprint. Other new tests allow developers to check for SIP errors by sending out malformed packets and cataloging the resultant effects on the VoIP network. G5 also includes new denial-of-service attack scenarios to test for the effects of malicious attacks on VoIP networks.”
The Hammer G5 will be most valuable to the large and globally installed base of Hammer customers, which account for more than four million test ports. In addition, there are a variety of upgrade packages for customers varying from software-only to hardware-accelerated for performance test, with no impact to any scripting and automation packages. Empirix is also offering special limited time offers on select new system bundles including software-only, 2U server-based, and blade server-based systems. Read more about the upgrade options and special discount pricing available.
For more information on Hammer G5, read:
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Empirix Leads Testing and IMS Session Analysis at IMS Forum Plugfest III
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Hammer portfolio helps IMS Forum expand research efforts
Designed to foster interoperability and certification for IMS services and applications, the IMS Forum’s third Plugfest was held in October at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab. Throughout the event Empirix’s Hammer portfolio was used to create Home Subscriber Server (HSS) interactions, Policy Decision Function (PDF) interactions for core networks and messaging to help the IMS Forum expand its research into IMS fixed mobile convergence.
“We were able to demonstrate more of our emulation and authentication capabilities with a majority of the network elements now supporting AKA and additional Diameter interfaces,” said Gordon Beith, Senior Product Manager at Empirix. “It was great to see how far IMS implementations had come in the past nine months, proving that IMS interoperability is a reality and not a ‘pipe-dream.’”
Read the complete press release. For more on Empirix’s participation in Plugfest III and the IMS Report Card, visit the IMS Forum’s presentation to view the results that were offered at this year’s Fall VON show.
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Global Crossing Deploys Empirix for VoIP Service Monitoring
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Global Crossing, a leading global IP solutions provider, chose the Hammer XMS to monitor and test call quality on the company’s global IP-based network.
Global Crossing offers its enterprise and carrier customers a highly reliable worldwide network, designed for the convergence of voice, video and data. In Empirix, the company found a partner that could help it ensure the highest levels of VoIP quality.
“As part of our efforts to continually enhance our VoIP suite of services, Hammer XMS provides Global Crossing the ability to monitor and test IP call quality across our VoIP network,” says Jim Watts, Vice President of Engineering at Global Crossing. “This allows a quicker response and better resolution times for network outages and customer impacting issues. Hammer XMS’ ease of use, real-time reports, and feature sets deliver a viable, proactive network analysis environment.”
Read the complete press release.
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The Making of Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience
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VON Magazine calls Empirix book “the first practical guide to testing and monitoring IMS”
In a review of Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience by Empirix Product Marketing Manager Chad Hart, VON Magazine describes the reality of implementing working IMS solutions as more challenging and complex than the marketing hype, indicating that practical knowledge of how to test and monitor IMS has been in short supply.
Until now.
Engineers, operational personnel, and others can find help in Hart’s book, which examines methods for testing and monitoring the many facets of IMS and includes best practices and recommendations. “If you are really interested in understanding how IMS works and how to prove that IMS does work, this is the book,” Hart says.
Read the complete article.
Request a copy of Ensuring a Quality IMS Experience.
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Monitoring the Performance of IP Centrex Services
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Light Reading article features comments from Empirix’s Dan Teichman, Senior Product Marketing Manager
Service providers must overcome a number of challenges to ensure the successful testing and monitoring of IP Centrex services, and Light Reading points to call correlation as among the most complex. “Typically, an enterprise using IP Centrex will populate the SIP from-field (used to specify the endpoint of an outgoing VOIP call) with the enterprise’s main common number. This makes it difficult to correlate calls with their real endpoints in the event of quality problems,” the article says.
“We know in reality there are tens, perhaps hundreds, of extensions behind that main number, and the challenge for a monitoring system is to correlate multiple calls that all appear to come from the same number, but which really need to be associated by the relevant data for individual calls, such that proper diagnostics and analysis can be done,” says Empirix’s Dan Teichman.
Read the complete article.
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Free Trial and Special Pricing on Hammer Call Analyzer 1.9
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Save more than 40 percent off list price—for a limited time
The latest release of Hammer Call Analyzer offers:
- Comprehensive VoIP, IMS, and fax protocol support
- Voice quality analysis and debugging tools with voice quality scores and playback
- The industry’s most advanced VoIP protocol-aware capture, search, and filtering
- Real-time, multi-stage call flow display for all VoIP protocols
- Automatic call correlation across multiple signaling protocols and network domains
To find out for yourself why so many VoIP network equipment manufacturers and service providers are using the Hammer Call Analyzer to meet their analysis, diagnostics, and troubleshooting needs, try a complimentary three-week product trial.
If you like what you see, take advantage of special pricing; purchase Hammer Call Analyzer 1.9 for just $4,000—43 percent off the regular purchase price online now.
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On-Demand Webcasts
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Our on-demand Webcasts are available for you to watch or listen to at your convenience. To view any Webcast or Podcast, simply click on the download link, complete the brief form and you will be up and running in a few moments.
The Secrets of Successful VoIP Services
This webcast analyzes examples of successful deployments of VoIP services with a view to drawing lessons from them on what services to offer, what markets to target, and what technologies to put in place to ensure that customers get what they want and operators optimize their return on investment.
Watch this webcast now.
Testing and Monitoring Cable VoIP
As cable operators roll out and maintain their IP voice offerings, they’re having to address a host of new issues concerning quality of service – partly because they need to prove to customers that what they’re offering is equivalent to, or better than, traditional phone services, and partly because the use of new technologies calls for extra engineering vigilance. This webcast identifies the parameters that operators need to monitor and then reviews test-and-measurement developments addressing those requirements.
Watch this webcast now.
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Upcoming Training Classes
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| Testbuilder with HVB and Signal Editor |
February 5-8, 2008 |
Bedford, MA |
$700.00 |
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| HVB and ASR |
May 6-9, 2008 |
Bedford, MA |
$700.00 |
To register for any class, simply
complete the enrollment form, and fax it to: 781-266-3706. Class size is limited
to 12 students. Empirix accepts purchase orders, checks or credit cards for payment.
Please call 781-266-3306 with any questions.
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The Hammer G5 datasheet
