Application Mix:
Realistic Performance and Stress Resilience Testing in Modern Triple-Play Networks.
With the continual evolution of the Internet, Peer-to-peer file sharing now represents as much as 80% of traffic. Infrastructure for Internet telephony, IPTV and Video-on-Demand services dominate the investment plans of service providers. Meanwhile, hackers are creating new types of threats that will disrupt services and tap into video and voice streams for malicious purposes.
Service providers are faced with the challenge to provide high-quality Triple-Play and robust business services free of disruptions, while minimizing capital expenditure. To do this, operators must carefully design and dimension their networks by selecting equipment that will meet expected user capacity and performance requirements – no more and no less – and ensure high-quality service delivery.
Until now, selection and configuration of application-aware security, bandwidth-management and content networking systems has been somewhat of a gamble. Providers relied solely on vendor promises and on data sheets that provided little insight into scalability and service quality for real-world traffic.
The Agilent “Application Mix” test methodology offers leading-edge modeling, emulation and measurement of application-layer Internet traffic, bringing the first solution to network design and performance challenges for both service providers and network equipment vendors.
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