LAS VEGAS -- Spirent Communications (NYSE: SPM; LSE: SPT), today announced the launch of Spirent TestCenter Ethernet Test System. This new test system provides simple, precise and economical testing of ultra-high density enterprise and metro Ethernet networks.

Spirent TestCenter was designed to address the emerging trend of Gigabit Ethernet-to-the-desktop, which is driving 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) aggregation in service provider and enterprise networks. Testing these high-capacity networks for their readiness to support real-world converged services requires a test tool able to manage large port counts, complex applications and comprehensive routing protocols. Spirent TestCenter solves these challenges through the highest port density in the industry, per-port traffic scalability, integrated test methodology and a common automation framework.

The system provides high-density 1Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet test modules. The Gigabit modules have 8 ports, with each test port capable of generating traffic at line rates up to 32,767 independent application streams - a major leap in scalability over past industry benchmarks. Spirent TestCenter also provides a common automation framework, interactive functional testing and wizards, enabling easy set-up of multiple standardized step tests with complex traffic profiles in a single test application. Each port provides full support of real-world traffic scenarios - including video streaming, messaging, multicasting and high-priority enterprise data - as well as advanced features such as QoS settings and data plane traffic (VLAN and IPv4/6 routing protocols.).

"Spirent's integrated data plane and control plane testing provides a real test of enterprise/metro and Internet core and edge routers," said Awil Egal, Director, Software Quality Assurance, Foundry Networks Service Provider Business Unit. "It provides the most realism for emulating a customer network. Spirent TestCenter will allow Foundry Networks to scale our metro, enterprise and Internet core and edge router testing higher than ever before while tracking individual user performance in real time."

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