Vegas NXT (Mu Dynamics Blog)
by Adam Stein on 23 June 2008 - 05:12:57 PM
Just back from Vegas NXT last
week along with several thousand attendees from a wide variety of service provider,
cable operator and vendor suppliers. Top
topics from an attendee snapshot at the Mu demo booth and IMS
Forum presentations were:
- Ensuring
real-time VoIP
quality for all portions of an operator’s network
- Building
reliable and available IPTV
deployments by eliminating product weaknesses
- Figuring
out what IP applications would attract the most business – and operator
subscribers
- Preventing
downtime for next-generation network applications like IPTV and VoIP,
including deployments based on the IMS Architecture
An increasingly important part of these NGN services is
service assurance: Avoiding downtime by improving reliability, availability and
security. The majority of the visitors
to Mu’s IMS, VoIP and DoS demo at NXT
agreed. Using variations on real-world
service level traffic to expose service level traffic weaknesses (including
within increasingly critical products leveraging deep packet inspection) is
essential to network operators’ continued profitability and expansion –
preferably without expensive downtime. In fact, numerous government agencies,
network operators and even critical infrastructure vendors depend on
professional service partners using Mu’s methodology to prevent downtime.
There are now nearly two dozen Mu
External Test Labs (METL) globally using Mu for their NGN business
services. Canada,
Germany, Japan, UK and US all have METL partners. In North America,
NSS Labs is getting increasingly active using Mu for services based on both the
award-winning published vulnerability elimination and spotting DoS weaknesses
in real-time IP services. In fact, NSS will hold a webinar on
July 18 to discuss its use of Mu as a “best in class” methodology to
properly evaluate the deep packet inspection functionality of network devices
under demanding, real-world network conditions.
Like NSS, many of Mu’s 100+ deployments are eager to
proactively remove any weakness that could cause downtime, ultimately building
a process to ensure better VoIP and IPTV services – and that means more
profitability. According to TIA, there
are numerous drivers for these profitable service deployments and operators are
taking advantage of many opportunities already.
The old adage that “time is money” would be better stated that “uptime
is money.”
There is no time like the present to eliminate downtime and
keep customers happy especially as
TIA predicts 33.2 million VoIP subscribers in the United States in 2011, vs. 15.9
million in 2007 …
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