Spirent Communications and Aviz Networks, a provider of solutions for Open, Cloud, and AI-first networks, have announced a collaboration aimed at enhancing the Networking 3.0 Stack.
This collaboration aims to offer customers more open, hardware vendor-agnostic methods for conducting intelligent traffic monitoring across various 5G network applications, including voice, video, data, mission critical services, IoT, and enterprise and industrial applications.
The integration of AI into the Networking 3.0 Stack’s components facilitates previously unexplored use cases, harnessing open-source large language models (LLMs) accessible through Aviz Network Copilot, an AI management assistant for large telecom and enterprise networks.
Aviz Service Nodes diverges from traditional bundled and costly proprietary service nodes. Engineered to seamlessly integrate with existing packet broker networks, Aviz Service Nodes distinguish themselves by operating on readily available, general-purpose hardware. This approach eliminates reliance on vendor-specific hardware, a significant cost driver, and ensures that future network upgrades won’t be constrained by proprietary solutions. By leveraging Spirent Landslide to validate Aviz Service Nodes, Aviz can offer Telco customers an innovative, quality-assured, ready-to-deploy solution for enhanced network efficiency and cost savings.
“Our solution is designed for AI-powered data-driven networking for 5G deployments and we estimate that customers can achieve a staggering 50% reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) through this software-defined approach,” said Vishal Shukla, Founder and CEO at Aviz Networks. “Thanks to our new collaboration, Aviz Service Nodes, combined with the unmatched testing capabilities of Spirent Landslide, represents a significant milestone in our commitment to Telco success with our AI-enabled Networking 3.0 Stack.”
Aviz Service Nodes are validated by Spirent Landslide, acknowledged as the industry’s most comprehensive test platform for validating and optimising service provider networks. This powerful combination empowers Telcos to:
- Gain deeper insights: Aviz Service Nodes facilitate comprehensive metadata extraction and advanced correlation analysis by leveraging Landslide’s advanced, state machine-driven implementation of 3GPP standards, alongside its compatibility with release 17 based 5G nodes and interfaces. The platform’s flexibility to customise call flows, messages, and information elements is pivotal in generating call models that mimic real-world scenarios at an unprecedented scale to rigorously test performance through LLM-based AI models.
- Optimise deployments: In the dynamic landscape of 5G network deployment, which encompasses diverse setups like Standalone (SA), Non-Standalone (NSA), and Private 5G tailored to address fundamental elements of 5G design and architecture, support for real-world Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA) models become indispensable. With 5G deployments being platform-independent, testing must be platform-agnostic. Spirent Landslide’s line-rate scaling capacity and ability to replicate real-world deployments through its Real-World Call model ensure maximum efficiency and service quality.
“Partnering with Aviz Networks represents an important step to further enhance network testing, while demonstrating Landslide’s capabilities to seamlessly integrate with Aviz’s Networking 3.0 framework,” said Kishore Kumar, 5G Business Development, APAC South at Spirent Communications. “This integration ushers in a new era of intelligent traffic monitoring and AI-driven network optimisation, enhancing the capabilities of both solutions and setting a new standard for open, scalable, and efficient 5G network applications.”
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