How to Automate Financial-Services Network Labs

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Automate Financial Services Network Labs

Financial enterprise IT teams must expand network and service testing to address new regulatory compliance rules, growing security threats, and a rapid pace of technology releases. Engineers need to validate compliance, security, and performance before launch, under conditions that reflect production behavior. The typical workflow relies on dedicated physical testbeds and workbenches built up by individual teams over many years. Engineers set up topologies, run tests, and tear down configurations by hand, often taking days per setup. Equipment stays tied to a single team or bench, so utilization is low, often below 30%, and overprovisioning drives up capital and energy costs.

These siloed, manual practices do not scale. Teams cannot keep up with new compliance and security testing needs or with vendor release cycles, which slows time-to-market for new products and services. Testing is often too simplistic to replicate real-world conditions for technologies such as Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 and 400G/800G Ethernet, increasing the risk of post-launch outages, service degradation, and regulatory action. As budgets tighten, expanding legacy labs creates unsustainable cost growth. Engineers need shared access to federated resources, automated setup and teardown, self-service reservations from any location, and realistic performance validation integrated into CI/CD workflows.

Financial Services Lab Automation Solution

Keysight lab modernization solutions, with Velocity Core for lab automation, transform dedicated labs through federation, automation, consolidation, and self-service access. The solutions virtualize lab infrastructure so teams in any location can reserve shared resources through a lab portal, and they automate testbed setup, teardown, resource reservation, and test runs, reducing configuration time from days to minutes. Lab power management shuts down idle equipment to cut energy use. Keysight performance validation for 5G, Wi-Fi 6/6E/7, and 400G/800G Ethernet models real-world conditions before launch. Solutions can be delivered as a managed service, as deployed software and infrastructure, or as a hybrid. Reported lab automation benefits include 300x faster lab configuration, more than 50% less required equipment, more than 80% resource utilization, and up to 90x productivity improvement.

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