A good traffic generator but be careful to the features you need
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Spirent TestCenter in order to validate network and Wan links through various tests. This is very useful to qualify a project or a Télécom link according to what has been ordered and what is delivered. Theses various tests allowed us to control the quality but also to detect configuration problems, that can be from what has been configured on Télécom or lan side.
Pros
- Bandwidth test
- QoS and traffic type generation
- Software platform availability
- Technical Support
Cons
- QA
- Various bugs to fix on software installation
- Technical documentation
- No Spirent classes available
- Lack to fix major issues such as ntp for latency calculation
Most Important Features
- Traffic generation
- Bandwidth capacity that match our links bandwidth
- Customization of QoS and traffic parameters
- Easy remote deployment on remote sites
Return on Investment
- Allows to qualify a link or a project to validate end of this one
- Allowed to detect various configuration issues that were fixed right after
- Allow to use virtual machines for easy remote deploykents
- Neharive: upgrade can depreciate products and newer products have sometimes better bandwidth capacity but less features
Other Software Used
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SecureCRT, Sublime Text