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CHICAGO--Agilent Technologies’ Computing and Networking Solutions group served up its own triple play to address the testing needs of triple-play service providers. The group introduced three new solutions including new emulation software, a distributed network analyzer and proprietary protocol application support.

The Distributed Network Analyzer PRO (the J6803A) is a network-troubleshooting platform that provides local and distributed test capabilities for installation, maintenance and troubleshooting for voice, video and data network services.

The system includes support for HSDPA in mobile broadband networks, video protocol analysis and the ability to directly correlate VoIP voice quality with network impairments. It can be used for on-site testing, unattended remote testing and centralized troubleshooting.

Agilent’s proprietary application emulation, the second of its new offerings from the CNS group, helps manufacturers and service providers characterize system performance of application-aware security devices. It emulates voice, video and data traffic as well as the proprietary protocols used in services such as peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing, instant messaging and online gaming at full loads while introducing malicious content to test the performance of equipment and networks.

“The most important thing in testing triple play [services] from an R&D perspective is to be able to emulate and scale,” said William Tomeo, marketing manager for Agilent’s Network Systems Test Division.

The system uses a dynamic session capture-relay capability to simulate thousands of proprietary applications with coming form unique addresses and recreate real transport protocol sessions. This capability allows users to quantify the effectiveness of application traffic management methods such as P2P rate limiting, layer-7 deep packet classification and tagging as well as application prioritization.

The company also introduced new emulation software and test automation tools that test the scalability of equipment designed to deliver triple-play services. On the N2X multiservices test solution these new tools provide insight into the quality of experience for each user in a fully loaded network.

“The network is getting more complicated, but carriers don’t have more people to fix them, so the value is in improving productivity through automated testing,” said Rick Pearson, marketing manager for Agilent’s Computing and Networking Solutions group.