US : Spirent Communications announced the new APEX C2K Applications Performance Test Platform ( ABOVE ), the first integrated test solution designed to verify the performance of resident and downloadable software applications for 3G wireless cellular devices.

“CDMA handset testing is evolving from minimum performance and interoperability testing to more advanced application performance and end-user experience testing,” states Rob VanBrunt, vice president of wireless product marketing for Spirent Communications. “We’ve worked closely with our customers to design APEX C2K, a solution powerful enough to automate performance testing for the latest wireless data applications, yet flexible enough to grow as new test requirements evolve.”

As the number of CDMA devices with advanced functionality grows, the ability to carry out rapid, automated feature regression testing will directly impact the success of launching new products and services. Spirent’s APEX C2K platform is a scalable test solution designed to meet the evolving needs of wireless application development. The system’s advanced automation specifically addresses a key weakness in existing test methodologies: Current testing of CDMA2000 1X features, such as data and Mobile IP, is largely a manual and time-consuming process. While some test solutions exist to perform pieces of application and feature testing, APEX C2K is the first integrated platform to automate this analysis. This automation allows for a large number of test cases to be run in a relatively short time, reducing the amount of valuable engineering resource dedicated to test strategy execution.

Spirent’s APEX C2K allows mobile device manufacturers and service providers to:

Determine performance of resident or downloaded applications
Differentiate one product from another based on performance
Validate end-user experience of new services offered on mobile devices
Automate feature testing to reduce the overall test cycle
Verify consistent performance with regression test software