ZTE selects Spirent Landslide CDMA2000 test system

April 18, 2005

Spirent Communications announced that ZTE Corporation of China has selected the Landslide CDMA2000 Test System for development of its advanced, next-generation wireless Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) platforms.

The Landslide CDMA2000 testing platform enables ZTE, one of China's largest network equipment manufacturers, to identify and resolve issues that might arise during network deployments before it delivers the PDSN product to market.

"We use Spirent's Landslide CDMA2000 system to verify performance metrics of our PDSN before it is deployed in the field," said Lu Ping, Product General Manager of the ZTE CDMA Product Division. "It provides a comprehensive library of test cases that allow us to test every performance aspect of our CDMA2000 PDSN during each stage of development. Its ease of use and pre-defined test cases allow our engineers to create complex real world test scenarios for our development network."

The Landslide CDMA2000 offers extensive and flexible testing suite that covers a range of real-world network usage, including varied combinations of wireless network applications, customer roaming behaviors, subscriber connection and disconnection behaviors and peak hour loads. Landslide empowers ZTE to conduct comprehensive session loading and performance testing in a laboratory setting that emulates millions of mobile nodes connecting to its PDSN.

"The integrated network analysis and complex performance measurements of Spirent's Landslide CDMA Performance Test System support the broadest range of standards and test methodology in the industry," said Joe Zeto, director of product marketing, wireless infrastructure, Spirent Communications. "Landslide CDMA2000 provides ZTE with unparalleled flexibility and testing capabilities throughout the product development cycle and roll-out of next generation packet services."

The Landslide CDMA2000 system is a high performance scalable solution for testing the core infrastructure of the CDMA2000 packet data network. It is capable of running performance metrics test cases of discrete nodes such as the PDSN/Foreign Agent and Home Agent. It can also perform an end-to-end performance test of the network from the Packet Control Function (PCF) to Public Network.

The Landslide CDMA2000 system is capable of simulating up to 6.4 million mobile subscribers across 32 test servers. The system also uses a distributed processing architecture to test simultaneous networking of multiple IP data, voice and multimedia applications over the same network via a multi-user, browser based GUI interface.

Spirent's Landslide 2.0 release affords ZTE several additional benefits including:

-- Comprehensive application support for content based billing testing. Supported application types include: HTTP, WAP 1.2 and 2.0, RTP, MMS, SIP, and Wireless Village

-- Performance benchmarking and base lining of 3GPP and 3GPP2 AAA servers

-- Support for MobileIP v4 and MobileIP v6 to measure the performance and scalability of network elements running Mobile IP

-- Automation tools that configure tests to run over time with customized traffic variation scenarios

-- Data Flow Editor that simulates anomalies, such as invalid or out of order message sequences