VoIP popularity is growing and cable operators are well positioned to play a major role as VoIP providers thanks to the PacketCable™ project, which leverages the existing cable infrastructure by building the VoIP architecture on top of the established DOCSIS cable network. This new network introduces challenges that network operators and network equipment manufacturers will face in order to ensure network readiness for planned traffic volume, security, quality of service and interoperability. The call management server (CMS), the heart of the new network infrastructure, will be responsible for traffic security and QoS management and will play a crucial role in PacketCable™ VoIP network.
The PacketCable CMS Performance Test Suite is an advanced solution that emulates hundreds of thousands of PacketCable™ access network devices (MTAs), hundreds of CMTSes and generates high volumes of network call signaling (NCS), IP security (IPSec) and dynamic quality of service (D-QoS) traffic. It emulates real-world network conditions so that network equipment manufacturers and network operators can perform stability, performance benchmarking, reliability and scalability tests on the call management server (CMS).
The CMS Performance Test Suite is part of the High-Performance VoIP Test Solution, which also includes SIP, Megaco and ISUP.
Highlights
- Generation and termination of hundreds of calls per second for each Ethernet port (up to ten ports per chassis)
- Various NCS traffic characteristics (uniform, step and burst) simultaneous emulation with or without IPSec and D-QoS
- Up to 320 000 MTAs, 200 CMTs and 320 000 endpoints emulation per chassis
- Up to 80 000 security associations with the CMS per chassis
- User-definable NCS messages and call flow
- IPSec support with dynamic key exchange (Kerberos, PKINIT, IKE) or with pre-shared keys
- D-QoS (COPS) support
- Extensive call statistics and troubleshooting logs
- SIP, ISUP, PacketCable™ (NCS, IPSec and D-QoS) and Megaco support in a single chassis