CHTTL Selects Spirent for Cloud Computing Testing

“Service providers are quickly realizing the significant market opportunity cloud computing presents and are beginning early testing and trials,” said Lucida Borovick, vice president of Enterprise Communications Infrastructure, IDC. “CHTTL has made an excellent decision by selecting Spirent to help in the expansion of the service provider’s cloud computing efforts. The ability to holistically evaluate and validate the readiness of a cloud computing environment from the physical infrastructure to the virtual platform will be critical to long term customer loyalty and ultimate success in the market.”

As one of Asia’s leading network operators, Chunghwa Telecom has announced plans to launch four cloud computing centers aimed at developing and testing a wide range of services. The operator used Spirent TestCenter™ Virtual for benchmarking data center and virtual server performance. The Spirent solution was also used for extensive testing of public cloud computing services such as web, mail server, FTP and CIFS.

“Service providers remain concerned about the uncertainty of the cloud environment and its impact on subscribers’ quality of experience as they enter this market segment,” said Gene Zhang, vice president, Asia at Spirent Communications, “By leveraging Spirent’s holistic cloud computing test solution, Chunghwa Telecom will ensure its cloud platform is delivering the business benefits of elastic computing without degrading the user experience.”