A good traffic generator but be careful to the features you need
Rating: 8 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Spirent TestCenter in order to validate network and Wan links through various tests. This is very useful to qualify a project or a Télécom link according to what has been ordered and what is delivered. Theses various tests allowed us to control the quality but also to detect configuration problems, that can be from what has been configured on Télécom or lan side.
Pros
- Bandwidth test
- QoS and traffic type generation
- Software platform availability
- Technical Support
Cons
- QA
- Various bugs to fix on software installation
- Technical documentation
- No Spirent classes available
- Lack to fix major issues such as ntp for latency calculation
Likelihood to Recommend
Spirent solution is well suited to qualify a Lan infrastructure bandwidth capacity or a device itself capacity such as a router or a firewall for example. But this solution in our case is also well suited to test a complex and numbered mpls environment.
I would not recommend it to a small business as the solution is very expensive: châssis and card cost are expensive and the solution requires to be an advanced user in system, not only on network devices
I would not recommend it to a small business as the solution is very expensive: châssis and card cost are expensive and the solution requires to be an advanced user in system, not only on network devices
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer in Information Technology at Synchrone (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
5 years of experience