Tektronix Spectra2|SE2 Software VoIP/IMS Analyser/Tester/Load

Spectra2 SE2 makes your testing requirements cost-effective with a variety of features:

• Load/Stress Testing
  Generate limited signaling and media traffic to load/stress test your IMS/TISPAN and VoIP networks and validate network performance; for higher performance load testing.
• Conformance Testing
  Perform VoIP conformance testing using a collection of VoIP test suites provided to verify protocol compliance to standards specifications
• Functional Testing
  Verify feature performance by running empirical VoIP functional test cases to validate feature performance
• Media/QoS Evaluation
  Measure media service quality based on PESQ and passive QoS analysis
• Network Monitoring
  Monitor your IMS/TISPAN and VoIP networks for system maintenance to verify system performance

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• Network Interface Card (NIC) - upto 8 NICs supported
• Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 32 bit
• 512 MB memory
• 1 GB free space
• Intel® Processor

Protocol Support

• H.323
  
• SIP
  
• SIP-T
  
• SIP/TLS
  
• Diameter
  
• MGCP
  
• Megaco (Binary and Text)
  
• RTP
  
• RTCP
  
• Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)

Spectra2 SE2 VoIP Applications Spectra2|SE2 is a software-only solution designed to provide a flexible, portable way to perform on-site and remote VoIP network testing. Spectra2|SE2 supports a full range of applications to perform VoIP monitoring, conformance and functional testing, protocol testing and load generation. This powerful VoIP subset of the Spectra2 testing platform is delivered in a portable application designed to run on any Windows-based PC or laptop. For cost-effective VoIP monitoring, conformance and functional testing, choose Spectra2|SE2.

Portable, Integrated
Spectra2|SE2 can Monitor, Test and Generate VoIP from a portable PC-based solution. Users can perform multi-protocol analysis of H.323, SIP, Diameter, MGCP, Megaco, RTP, and RTCP. Spectra2|SE can also test VoIP and IMS networks with using the easy-to-learn, easy-to-use scripting interface, using VoIP Analyzer, VoIP protocol and Diameter packages for Spectra2|SE2 that support H.323, SIP, Diameter, MGCP, Megaco and RTP/RTCP. Each testing package comes complete with packaged test suites and PDUs.

Release 7.3 introduces Spectra2|SE2, the next generation of Spectra2|SE. Spectra2|SE2 is a software only product that is designed to run on off-the-shelf hardware to enable our customers to test with all the power of a Spectra2 hardware based solution Spectra2|SE2 provides the following new capabilities:

• Grow beyond a single Ethernet Port up to 8 simultaneous Gigabit Ethernet ports by   adding off-the-shelf NICSs
• Extend IP Address Support up to 32K IP addresses per Gigabit Ethernet Port
• Enable the capability of high volume load testing by extending traffic generation capabilities
• Automate and Control the Spectra2|SE2 using an API
• Utilize your existing PC or server hardware running Windows XP or Window 7 (32 bit) machine for functional load, media, monitoring and trouble shooting
• Existing Spectra2|SE customers receive Spectra2|SE2 benefits upon upgrade

Use Cases include:

• Enabling your field validation and support teams with the ability to perform multi-protocol cross domain testing and troubleshooting of call control and media from their existing laptops
• Leverage your existing hardware investment by adding a software-only test option
• Test NGN VoIP protocols (SIP, H.323, MGCP, H.248, Diameter) from the desktop concurrently with
• PSTN protocols (ISUP, BICC, MAP, AIN, INCS, etc) using SIGTRAN transport
• Use Spectra2|SE2 as a low cost point monitoring solution for IP protocols
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