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Spirent, CALIENT Partner to Debut Orchestration & Automation Solution for Testing Hybrid Network Functions

Spirent, CALIENT Partner to Debut Orchestration & Automation Solution for Testing Hybrid Network Functions Image Credit: Spirent

Spirent Communications, the global leader for lab and test automation solutions in mobile and cloud networking industries, announced that it has incorporated CALIENT’s S-Series Optical Circuit Switching technology into the Spirent Velocity orchestration and automation software solution.

The combined solution enables network equipment manufacturers, service providers and cloud providers to consolidate and scale test lab operation, modernize test labs for employees or customers as a cloud-based service, or streamline continuous deployment when testing hybrid network functions.

Spirent’s Velocity is a hybrid networking test lab platform with a breadth of micro-services accessible via a RestAPI or an easy to use web application. CALIENT’s S Series Optical Circuit Switches include the S320 and S160, both of which are used to create any-to-any, layer-1 network connections that can be reconfigured on demand.

Patrick Johnson, General Manager of Automation Platform Technologies at Spirent Communication
The CALIENT partnership and technology integration advances the Velocity platform’s capability to easily automate optical connectivity and instantly spin up any physical, virtual or hybrid networking environment. 

Erik Leonard, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for CALIENT
The proliferation of single mode fiber in hyper-scale data centers, test labs, service provider networks, and large enterprises that are moving to the cloud, is driving demand for 3D MEMS optical switching technology. Connection speeds of 40G, 100G, 200G, and 400G, along with recent software developments in SDN and NFV are driving investment in testing of hybrid networking products and protocols. 

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