Enterprise Network Testing: Testing Throughout the Network Lifecycle to Maximize Availability and Performance

Introduction

As many as 17 billion devices are projected to be connected to the Internet by 2014, fueled by more and more computing tasks now being handled online, from phone calls to personalized searches to downloading entertainment. In an effort to enhance the value of user transactions, corporations are increasingly transforming their network infrastructures from “packet plumbing” into “business platforms,” converging ever more application and network functions along the way. This transformation has placed unprecedented pressures on network managers, now charged with meeting application service-level agreements for uptime and performance dictated to them by leaders of the business. Once considered an optional activity, network testing has ...