The first truly integrated Carrier-Class IP test platform from the leader in VoIP Application Testing

IMS and NextGen Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and Service Providers (SPs) that are testing VoIP devices for network deployment find it difficult to generate sufficient 'real-world' traffic to ensure proper operation under load and stress conditions. Typical telephony test equipment can not provide the needed real-world traffic volume and metrics cost effectively or in an integrated manner.

Hammer NXT changes the convergence test playing field by delivering a truly integrated, expandable IP telephony test platform. By combining carrier class volumes of IP traffic with detailed analysis, diagnostics, and reporting, Hammer NXT is the industry's leading price/performance test platform. Hammer NXT's blade-based architecture can generate more than 160,000 simultaneous calls using a mix of VoIP signaling with real media. With Hammer NXT, equipment manufacturers and service providers can verify multiple next gen applications such as Toll By-pass, Class 5, and Enhanced services.

Test Applications

• High density path confirmation and voice quality testing of IP telephony applications including IP-TDM, TDM-IP, and IP-IP
• End-to-end Media Gateway testing with bearer traffic using VoiP and TDM signaling
• Verify VoIP application performance with detailed call measurements including call rates, capacity, errors, and end-to-end call routing verification
• Failover testing to ensure backup circuits engage seamlessly when a primary circuit goes down
• Voice Quality testing with full background loading on system under test
• Voice Quality testing when confronted with real world network impairments
• Network level functional or performance testing
• Device testing for trunking, signaling and access gateways, switching platforms, softswitches and IP end points
• Verify QoS algorithms with network metrics including packet loss, latency, and jitter

Features

• Endpoint emulation – unique or aggregated with regard to IP address, MAC address, and VLAN tagging
• IP transport over UDP, TCP, TLS, IPv4, and IPv6
• Multiple signaling protocols - Support for SIP, H.323, and MGCP
• RTP and RTCP support for G.711, G.723, G.726, G.729, GSM-AMR, GSM-EFR, GSM-FR, EVRC, and RFC2833 media type - plus user-defined codecs
• High Capacity - Generates more than 48,000 calls with signaling and real media on every call as a single NXT system
• Flexible Media - Verifies tones, DTMF and prompts, in IP network environments
• Easy to use - Can install and generate thousands of calls in a matter of minutes
• Real-time metrics - Can instantly see the status of testing

Benefits

• Accelerate time to market – By testing media/border gateways/controllers, session controllers, next-gen switches, border controllers/gateways, routers/content switches, firewalls/NATs and media servers with real load
• Reduce feature test time and risk - Use Hammer NXT to generate background load to ensure that feature testing is done under real-world conditions
• Reduce product risk - Confirm that network component capacity and performance goals are achieved
• Save money - Generate calls at a considerably lower cost
• Find errors faster - Filter based metrics allows users to focus on the 'bad' calls, saving time spent looking at thousands of call reports