Accedian and Keysight Tackle the Complexity of Operating Next-Generation Networks

Accedian partners with Keysight Technologies to tackle the operational complexities experienced by Communications Service Providers (CSPs) as they transition to next-generation network deployments.

5G applications often rely on critical and demanding requirements to be met across complex distributed infrastructures spanning multiple operator cloud domains. CSPs require continuous end-to-end performance testing and monitoring, automated as part of a dynamically orchestrated multi-vendor environment, to deliver quickly and as expected. It also requires a performance architecture that combines lab testing with the real-world operational complexity experienced in networks evolving to 5G.

A joint service assurance solution enables customers to:

• Activation testing and ongoing service assurance for next-generation network deployments.
• Correlated diagnostic tests across RF and application performance layers for continuous operational monitoring of the end-user experience.
• Cloud-native coverage of all 4G/5G/MEC infrastructure paths and real-world user experience monitoring for hybrid architecture applications.
• Ability to analyze and correlate transport performance and isolate MEC/core/RAN access specific issues.

“Leading mobile operators are characterized by their ability to control and monitor the end-user experience true end-to-end across all cloud, infrastructure and radio environment stacks. Accedian’s cloud-native Always-on, microsecond-precise performance monitoring in , is a model of assurance trust that performance expectations are met and the user experience delivered to high-value, low-latency 5G services. This requires proactive insight, rapid resolution of any issue, and efficiencies the industry has never experienced before, and this partnership is designed to do just that,” Accedian chief said. Richard Piersentin, Marketing and Chief Strategy Officer, said.

“As the 5G market enters the full rollout phase, live network operations become even more important. Service Assurance links workflows to monitor, measure and identify issues down to the RF, protocol and application layers. Keysight’s advanced technology in the 5G and network test domains combined with Accedian bridges the operational gap between service provider lab test capabilities and real production networks will be