Ensure Future Development of Mobile Access
traffic from mobile devices is growing at a rate that exceeds the population of the earth, global operators are facing a large number of opportunities and unprecedented risks. In order to make profits from it and meet users' expectations of quality, many operators are adopting more economical new methods to build access networks.
heterogeneous networks (HetNets) use low-cost small cellular base stations and operator Wi-Fi to supplement the coverage and capacity of macro cellular base stations. Heterogeneous networks have strong technical and business advantages:
Improve Spectrum Efficiency
increase coverage and capacity in urban areas and large buildings
deploy attractive new services more quickly
better retain customers and increase revenue per user
heterogeneous networks are a completely new world, challenges follow. There are many unproven competitive solutions that can unload traffic to lamp posts, city streets and new equipment on commercial buildings.
challenges include:
Manage thousands of access devices
Use SON to reduce interference
better integration of 3G, LTE and Wi-Fi
ensure mobility, reliability, security and high-quality user experience
due to many risks, you can't just rely on suppliers to evaluate performance. The old methods-road testing and wireless planning-cannot eliminate the inherent complexity of launching heterogeneous networks. Ixia helps you validate design and deployment throughout the lab, using new assessment strategies and best practices to minimize risk.
evaluation must include isolation of individual devices and subsystems and system-level end-to-end evaluation of new services. Since most problems occur under high load conditions, elasticity must be tested by generating real-scale real traffic to simulate extreme conditions.
Ixia Mobile Performance Testing Solution provides key functions that allow you to realize the benefits of heterogeneous networks. Ixia enables mobile operators to model thousands of users in the laboratory, reproduce real external conditions, and evaluate end-to-end performance-including before and after deployment.
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