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Highlights

  • Simulate UE behavior in 5G use case deployments: Network slicing, multi-access edge computing (MEC) low latency and offloading, video optimization
  • Perform service quality validation with subscriber modeling, multiplay traffic generation, and quality of experience (QoE) measurements
  • Validate complex scenarios for service-based architectures
  • Validate 5G nodes and interfaces via specialized Ixia hardware or Virtual Edition (VE)
  • Scale up to millions of subscribers using stateful application traffic mixes that can interact with real servers and peers
  • Enforce and validate multiple user-plane QoS characteristics per flow or session
  • Control test traffic mix and intensity using network objectives to independently manage control- and user-planes
  • Generic licensing scheme offers flexibility to grow with your needs and fit your budget; future-proof and pay-as-you-grow, protecting initial investment
  • Available for deployment on all major public clouds, including AWS Marketplace (both BYOL and PAYG options)

5G Innovation Spawns New Test Challenges

5G demands are inherently different than 4G, as it aims to address existing and emerging mobile network architecture requirements for consolidated services, greater scale, and lower latency communications.

5G value propositions:

  • Scale network resources with the ability to dynamically assign network functions to support new services or new slices serving different verticals or use cases
  • Manage costs through consolidated services and paving the way for a true multi-vendor implementation at each layer or function
  • Service flexibility with the ability to handle and to accelerate the service delivery to all stakeholders

The 5G Core introduces new protocols, service-based architecture, virtualization, and network slicing, among other things. The elastic nature of the 5G Core network creates new challenges for testing the core network elements, both in isolation and in end-to-end setups.

5G Innovation

5G Lab Testing With High-Performance UE Simulation

With 5G development and adoption progressing rapidly, cloud native is central to the 5G Core architecture. With its microservice architecture and options to be deployed either as a virtual machine (VM) or Container, LoadCore is fully aligned to this new paradigm. Regardless of the infrastructure being used it delivers high performance, high flexibility and versatility users expect from an all-encompassing test tool.

Validate 5G Core at Scale

Using LoadCore’s real-world subscriber modeling, testers do not need to be protocol experts to develop realistic test scenarios. From a single application, users can perform capacity tests, detail a device’s throughput, measure voice and video quality, and model a wide variety of mobility scenarios.

A multitude of test topologies are available, centered around node isolation, interface testing, or service validation.

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Application Notes 2021.11.29

Negative Testing using LoadCore

Negative Testing using LoadCore

Application Note for LoadCore/5G Core network testing product highlighting a key feature and product differentiator: capability of impairing (modify on-the-fly) control plane packets and procedures.

2021.11.29

Data Sheets 2024.04.04

LoadCore™ - 4G/5G Core Network Test Solution

LoadCore™ - 4G/5G Core Network Test Solution

5G deployments will enable enhanced mobile broadband services with higher data rates, increased capacity, and lower latencies. New business opportunities and increased revenue sources can be found in fixed wireless access (FWA) and massive and critical IoT services in sectors like automotive, manufacturing, energy, and utilities. But to ensure the carrier-grade quality required to carry this wireless traffic, service providers need to characterize and continuously validate their 5G Core network in the lab and pre-production deployments. This requires testing with not only a strong 4G anchor in RAN but also the 5G NR plus extended capacity in the 4G EPC.

2024.04.04

White Papers 2023.02.08

Best Practices for 5G Core Network Validation

Best Practices for 5G Core Network Validation

5G is revolutionizing the mobile core network. Mobile network operators need to virtualize their core network and implement challenging concepts to achieve true elastic scalability and optimize costs.

2023.02.08

Solution Briefs 2020.05.26

5 Tips for Building 5G Networks with Confidence

5 Tips for Building 5G Networks with Confidence

Service providers are under constant pressure to modernize networks and deliver an exceptional user experience. Ixia has the test solutions you need to measure the quality of 5G, LTE, and network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVi), from the edge to the core to customer-facing managed services. This document explores the top test functions you need to validate before deployment so you can build 5G networks with confidence.

2020.05.26

Reports 2020.05.26

The State of 5G

The State of 5G

Keysight commissioned Dimensional Research to conduct a survey measuring preparation and attitudes toward 5G deployment across the globe. The results showed very clearly that nearly half of global businesses are already deploying 5G networks, or plan to deploy them within the next 12 months. These findings underscore the pent-up consumer demand for 5G: the technology is here, it is real, and customers want it.

2020.05.26

Brochures 2022.09.28

Test Module Overview - 5G

Test Module Overview - 5G

This brochure summarizes the Test Modules that are being released by the Keysight’s Professional Services team to help customers achieve a faster return on investment (ROI) in their performance of testing.

2022.09.28

White Papers 2020.05.22

Test Considerations for 5G

Test Considerations for 5G

With the implementation of 5G over the next decade, both network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and operators will face new challenges in testing their hardware, software, and end-to-end deployments. 5G technology, as currently envisioned, is quite different from 4G/Long Term Evolution (LTE) and will bring together some of the most challenging aspects of existing approaches and introduce new challenges. What is needed is a new approach for 5G test architecture that will help operators and equipment suppliers validate their hardware, software and configurations to ensure they perform as expected and deliver an excellent customer experience. This white paper describes the 5G technology roadmap, the implications of 5G for test architecture, and the requirements for testing the three major 5G use cases.

2020.05.22

eBooks 2023.02.22

Nine Tests You Need Now for Edge-to-Cloud Networking

Nine Tests You Need Now for Edge-to-Cloud Networking

Network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) are innovating faster than ever to thrive in a world where disaggregated, multivendor, multi-cloud networks are the new norm. To enable open, cloud-native networks, you must deliver solutions that operate on a wide variety of white boxes, bare-metal servers, containers, and multiple clouds in addition to your original equipment manufacturer hardware. That innovation includes what you test and how you test to get high-quality, differentiated solutions to market ahead of the competition. This eBook highlights a few of the key network test areas important for NEMs that enable the edge-to-cloud continuum. For each area, we provide a brief introduction, key test requirements, test solutions, and links to additional resources.

Keysight Technologies 2023.02.22

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