Feature testing is a critical quality assurance step for verifying proper implementation and functionality of today's VoIP and IMS products, networks and applications.

Hammer feature testing solutions are used in the development, quality assurance, and proof of concept labs for isolation, regression and interoperability testing; as well as in trial and field networks for vendor, configuration and technology verification.

Empirix feature testing solutions include:

• Hammer G5 addresses the need for integrated, comprehensive, and flexible call profiles including feature and load on a single carrier-class testing platform that can scale from 4 to more than 200,000 endpoints.
• Hammer FX-TDM for simulating simple and complex user behavior and emulating user-driven device
• Hammer Call Analyzer for troubleshooting and diagnostics during tests
• Hammer DEX for emulating device-to-device interactions
• Hammer NetEm for simulating real-world IP network impairments and problems

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Hammer G5 
The Hammer G5 offers an integrated package for pure feature and load testing, in addition to more sophisticated scenarios of functional-load testing. Built on Empirix's Hammer FX (VoIP feature test) and Hammer NXT (high density VoIP load generation) products, this new platform offers the combined capabilities of both in a unified user and programming interface.

Emerging NGN and IMS applications, such as Application Servers, Service Delivery Platforms, IP Centrex, VoiceXML gateways, Media Servers/Media Resource Functions, IP conferencing and unified messaging are as exciting as they are complex. The Hammer G5 feature testing platform verifies that these products and applications perform precisely as designed with advanced capabilities for testing signaling and media functionality across IP and TDM networks.

Hammer G5 also scales with your testing requirements, scaling from small scale tests with a few channels to 1000s of fully functional advanced feature testing channels.

Hammer FX-TDM 
The Hammer FX-TDM allows you to perform the same testing for SS7, TDM, and analog signaling and media testing. It can operate under the same configuration and control interface as the Hammer G5, or separately.

Hammer Call Analyzer
Quickly identifying the root source of network problems is critical to timely deployment and customer satisfaction. The Hammer Call Analyzer, known as the HCA, is a time-saving diagnostic and analysis tool for VoIP, IMS, and converged networks. The HCA can be used to uncover, isolate, and troubleshoot signaling and media problems. Valuable features of the HCA include full protocol decodes, call/session correlation across multiple protocols and multiple domains, call/session flow visualization and media analysis.

Hammer DEX 
Today's networks often involve many device to device interactions. The Hammer DEX is an infrastructure device platform that emulates VoIP and IMS infrastructure elements such as gateway controllers, media gateways, softswitches, proxies, call/session controllers, border controllers, application serves, HSS's and charging functions. The Hammer DEX can be used in conjunction with load testing when conducting an isolation test or in any scenario in which one or more real infrastructure devices cannot be acquired or are too difficult to maintain, setup, and manage as part of a test environment.

Hammer NetEm 
Real networks rarely exhibit the ideal IP network performance that occurs in the lab. The Hammer NetEm is a network impairment tool used to simulate real-world and worst-case IP network conditions including bit errors, lost packets, jitter, and packet reordering.

 

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