How to Accelerate Financial-Service Network Testing

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Accelerate Financial Network Test Cycles

Financial institutions must test network patches, configurations, and equipment replacements for security and compliance before deployment, often to meet regulations that require validation twice per year. A global financial services firm operating in more than 60 countries needed to perform validation while keeping pace with rising network speeds, processing demands, and device diversity. Its testing workflow was manual and serial: wait in a lab queue, set up equipment, execute tests, compile reports, and analyze results. A single run of 250 tests could take three to 12 months, with only one or two runs per year. Reports were static PDFs hundreds of pages long, and there was no automated regression testing.

The result was a growing backlog that delayed network updates, increased support costs for outdated hardware and software, and put regulatory deadlines at risk. Testing environments were siloed by team, so equipment and scripts could not be shared. Outsourced testing cost $10 million per year, while in-house teams had automated only 10 of 1,800 test cases over 12 months. Engineers needed to test at greater scope and scale, run tests in parallel, reuse scripts across departments, minimize lab queue time, and produce actionable results fast enough to meet release and compliance schedules.

Financial Network Test Acceleration Solution

Keysight's Velocity automation portfolio provides end-to-end lab and test automation. Velocity Switches automate physical lab access, Velocity Core automates lab provisioning and 24x7x365 reservation management, and Velocity iTest automates test execution with standardized scripts shared across departments. Keysight Services support rollout and ongoing management. Together, these products and service replace serial manual processes with parallel automated workflows: lab setup drops to minutes, reporting runs alongside execution, and interactive analytics replace static reports. Expanded in-house coverage supports biannual regulatory and security compliance. An ROI model developed with a customer projects test times falling from 18 weeks to eight hours, $21.8 million in annual savings, and ROI within 18 months.

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