Solutions for Every Service at Every Stage

Virtually all service providers face the same three challenges:

• Delivering the ultimate subscriber experience 

• Being first—or fast—to market with new services 

• Lowering operating costs and total cost of ownership (TCO)

Virtualization, development and operations (DevOps), and other shif ts are transforming the business by accelerating del ivery times, promoting better return on investment (ROI) and TCO, and improving the security and monetization of services. At the same time, shif ts in usage driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and exploding volumes of mobile devices present never-before-seen challenges. 

As you navigate these fast-changing market dynamics, Keysight can help you use emerging technologies to improve your business. Every service, at every stage.

From the Core to the Cloud to the Customer

For nearly two decades, Keysight has worked with leading service providers worldwide to prove and improve quality. Our solutions impact every aspect of the service life-cycle—from design and vendor selection to deployment, quality management, and day-to-day operation.

These solutions fall into two main categories:

• Network testing to improve quality 

• Network visibility to defend and maintain quality

Essentially two halves of the same coin, network test and visibility work together to deliver data that fuels innovation and ensures the full benefits.

Lab-to-live testing: for the ultimate subscriber experience

Service providers worldwide rely on Keysight test solutions throughout service and infrastructure design and deployment: 

IxNetwork® infrastructure testing scales to validate your network infrastructure against challenging real-world conditions. Emulating everything from routing and switching to softwaredefined networking (SDN) and broadband access, IxNetwork generates multiple terabytes of data and analyzes up to 4 million traffic flows simultaneously.

IxLoad® network and application testing enables subscriber modeling at scale to measure the quality of Long-Term Evolution (LTE), Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE), and other wired and wireless services. Emulating web, video, voice, storage, wireless, security protocols, and more, IxLoad creates realistic scenarios for capturing critical quality of experience (QoE) metrics, validating marketing claims, and drilling down to remedy degradation issues.

Wireless testing includes both IxLoad Wireless and IxVeriWave™ for complete testing of cellular, Wi-Fi, and heterogeneous networks (HetNets) from the core to radio access networks (RAN) to the managed services that touch the customer. 

BreakingPoint® security testing is the industry’s gold-standard solution for hardening security defenses. BreakingPoint simulates the latest threats— distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, malware, fuzzing, and other techniques—along with legitimate traffic. Validating everything from vendor claims to your entire security infrastructure, BreakingPoint reduces the risk of network degradation by up to 80% while improving your readiness to fend off attack by nearly 70%.

Live-network testing continues once services roll out with the virtual edition versions of IxLoad and BreakingPoint, and IxChariot® used to re-check performance as upgrades occur, usage scales, and the threat landscape changes.