Spirent Communications announces today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held The Fanfare Group, Inc. (“Fanfare”), based in Mountain View, California, for a cash consideration of $15 million. Fanfare is a leading provider of test automation solutions that help equipment manufacturers and service providers accelerate time to market and improve product quality in the face of rapidly growing complexity.

Spirent Communications, the leader in testing wireless networks, services and devices, today announced the addition of MIMO Over-The-Air (OTA) Environment Builder software to its wireless channel emulation product line. When equipped with this new capability, Spirent’s wireless channel emulators can be used to predict user experience of MIMO devices prior to deployment. The innovative new software reduces the complexity and uncertainty of chamb...

LTE networks make possible a new breed of location-based services (LBS) that need to determine a user’s location quickly and accurately, at any time and in any place. To help accelerate the availability and verify the performance of these location services on LTE devices, leading mobile operators, technology developers and device manufacturers are using a pioneering lab-based LBS LTE test solution from Spirent Communications.

Smartphones and tablets are re-defining the mobile Internet. This disruptive trend, characterized by content and device mobility, raises a pressing yet unresolved issue - are networks ready to support the performance and reliability requirements of advanced services? To help carriers and equipment vendors test the most demanding data and application workloads on the mobile Internet, Spirent introduces Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics neXt.

To further the development of the Quazi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) program, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Spirent Communications’ testing solutions to verify performance of its satellite receivers. Responsible for the development of initial QZSS receivers, JAXA is using Spirent's GSS8000 Multi-GNSS Constellation Simulator to verify QZSS receiver performance.

Spirent Communications, a leading provider of testing solutions for wireless networks, devices and services, has received Frost & Sullivan’s Product Line Strategy of the Year award for wireless test equipment. Frost & Sullivan’s research showed that Spirent’s wireless solutions lead the industry in product line breadth, addressable customer base, impact on customer value, impact on market share and breadth of applications and markets served...

A critical challenge to achieving the performance and quality of experience expectations of today’s navigation and positioning systems is accurately testing user devices in complex and dynamic real-world scenarios. To address this issue Spirent Communications today introduces the GSS6400 Record and Playback System, a solution designed to improve device performance while reducing the need for and cost of field testing.

Spirent Communications, the leader in testing solutions for wireless networks, devices and services today announced that Spirent’s eAirAccess wireless network emulator was presented the 2010 LTE Visionary Award. The award was presented by Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC) in conjunction with Crossfire Media.

Spirent Communications, a leading provider of testing solutions for wireless devices, networks and services, today announced the availability of the industry’s first automated R&D solution for testing smartphone performance in the presence of simultaneous voice, data and location-based services (LBS). Built on Spirent’s 8100 Development Library solution, this new service interaction test capability is the latest innovative Spirent tool design...

Spirent Communications, a leader in data center and cloud computing testing, has joined the Ethernet Alliance in a live multi-vendor interoperability event that demonstrates the performance of next generation data center technologies during SC10 in New Orleans.

As a part of the ongoing effort to advance test automation techniques, Spirent Communications today successfully demonstrated interoperability of its solutions with the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF) framework. This interoperability test underscores Spirent’s commitment to work with industry leaders to define and implement standardized automation interfaces.

Spirent Communications, a leading provider of testing solutions for wireless networks, devices and services, today announced that a major network equipment manufacturer has installed the Spirent SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator for testing beamforming capabilities of Time Domain-Long Term Evolution (TD-LTE) base stations at its laboratories in Shanghai, China. Performance testing of network equipment is critical for the successful deployment of T...

In an effort to validate the Metro Ethernet Forum’s External Network-to-Network Interface (ENNI) inter-working across network operators worldwide, the Carrier Ethernet Global Interconnect demonstration conducted by EANTC and co-organized by ancotel used Spirent solutions to test interconnectivity, interoperability and service provisioning. Showcased this week at Light Reading’s Ethernet Expo Americas 2010 conference in New York, the demonstra...

Spirent Communications, a leading provider of testing solutions for wireless networks, services and devices, today announced the release of its newest Virtual Drive Test (VDT)-Conversion Tool, adding CDMA to the list of supported radio technologies, which already includes W-CDMA and GSM. The VDT-Conversion Tool is used by the wireless industry to reduce the need for drive testing by capturing RF conditions in the field and bringing them into the ...

Nokia Siemens Networks has selected Spirent Communications to validate the performance of its Evolved Packet Core (EPC) gateway Flexi NG, a solution that will play a key role in next-generation wireless network deployments. With the market leading Spirent Landslide, Nokia Siemens Networks is able to verify the performance of its EPC solutions, while reducing the cost and time associated with bringing them to the market.

In its continuing effort to help MSOs deliver the most compelling video and enhanced service offerings, Spirent Communications today introduced IP video performance monitoring capabilities to its market-leading Spirent TestCenter Live. With Spirent, MSOs gain a solution that helps evaluate the quality of their network and the customers’ service as well as a single tool that tests both the Ethernet backbone and the IP video streams being deliver...

Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions, selected Spirent Communications to help validate the performance of its HSPA+ data cards. With Spirent, the leader in testing solutions for wireless networks, devices and services, Huawei is able ensure its customers’ high-speed HSPA+ data networks offer a superior subscriber quality of experience (QoE) and seamless mobility.

Spirent Communications continues to gain industry recognition for its market-leading approach to advancing cloud computing testing. At the recent 2010 NetEvents EMEA Press Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, Spirent was named the ‘Most Innovative Technology Company of the Year’ and also received the ‘Most Innovative Test & Measurement Product of the Year’ award for its Spirent Avalanche Virtual solution.

Spirent Communications, the leading provider of testing solutions for wireless networks, services and devices, announced that it is working with Drexel University’s Wireless Systems Laboratory to expand the school’s advanced wireless antenna technology research capabilities. Drexel will use the Spirent SR5500 Wireless Channel Emulator for research into Over-the-Air Multiple-in Multiple-Out (OTA MIMO) technologies, reconfigurable antennas and ...

Innovations in mobile user devices and growth in 3G/LTE services is driving network operators to move to an IP/Ethernet backhaul to help deal with the onslaught of new mobile data service. However, if the infrastructure isn’t ready to deal with the technology and operational issues Ethernet brings, both subscriber quality of experience (QoE) and potential revenue streams from new data services can be compromised.