BOSTON -- Reef Point Systems a leader in massively scalable security gateway solutions for the fixed mobile convergence market, announced today the company has developed the industry's first comprehensive suite of Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) test tools that provides full end-to-end system integration and test capabilities. Until now, due to the new technologies involved and the extremely high scalability requirements, there have been no commercially available tools that could test production-scale implementations of UMA using the IKEv2 protocol.
"Successful implementation of converged networks such as UMA require the ability to test at significant scale," said Dennis Racca, Reef Point's vice president of engineering. "Until now, there have been no tools to enable operators to effectively do this. Reef Point's new test suite is a major step forward in making Fixed Mobile Convergence a reality."
Reef Point developed the iQ UMA Test Suite to fully stress and validate UMA implementations including simulating hundreds of thousands of mobile station endpoints and exercising the entire authentication infrastructure at scale. It is a fully integrated control and data plane test suite that runs on Reef Point's security gateway platform. The suite tests IPsec tunnel scalability and IKEv2 negotiation rate, simulates IKEv2 DoS attacks and performs line rate traffic forwarding across IPsec tunnels. Service providers can test deployment-specific scenarios with a variety of configuration options including rate-configurable tunnel setups and teardowns. Formatted reporting enables fast and accurate interpretation of results. The new suite supports the complete UMA/GSM infrastructure including authentication with RADIUS servers, accessing the GSM databases Visitor's Location Register (VLR) and Home Location Register (HLR) as well as load testing access to UNC services over secure IPsec tunnels.
Reef Point Systems Inc.