Spirent Communications plc announced the launch of benchmarking capabilities for the acclaimed Landslide Test Solution. This new feature, Cloud-Native Infrastructure Benchmarking, enhances the existing capabilities of Spirent Landslide, aiding service providers in expediting the deployment of cloud-native 5G standalone (SA) networks.
Landslide is the first solution that offers a holistic approach to benchmarking, deploying, managing, and optimizing 5G infrastructure performance to ensure the readiness and capability of networks to support cloud-native network functions (CNFs). By enabling infrastructure benchmarking for CPU, memory, storage, and networking, Landslide contributes to CNF scalability and resiliency testing. This critical capability accelerates the adoption of 5G SA and 5G-Advanced networks, reducing the risk of service disruptions, investment losses, and delays in service launches.
Key Capabilities and Benefits include:
Infrastructure Benchmarking: The first solution to benchmark CPU, memory, storage, and Kubernetes distributions alongside CNF resiliency and scalability testing.
Workflow Automation: Simplified benchmarking with configurable workload scenarios through embedded automation.
Visualization & Monitoring: Time-series performance tracking using Grafana and Prometheus integration.
Complete Lifecycle Validation: Extending Spirent Landslide from CNF functional validation to infrastructure benchmarking, providing a comprehensive platform.
Landslide Cloud Infrastructure Benchmarking addresses the challenges of cloud-native transformation by offering performance insights to infrastructure and CNF teams, facilitating alignment of engineering efforts, prevention of outages, and efficient resource utilization.
Early benchmarking evaluations are already underway with Tier 1 operators in the U.S., highlighting the global priority placed on benchmarking by operators.
Filed Under: 5G, Design/test software, Development tool, Network software, Test & Measurement, Tools
