Spirent named global leader in ethernet and cloud infrastructure test equipment markets

Spirent Communications has been named by Frost & Sullivan as the market leader in the 1/10/40/100G ethernet and cloud infrastructure test equipment markets, with 28.9 and 45.6% market shares respectively.

Adoption of cloud-based applications along with the mobile internet revolution are driving deployment of IP/ethernet infrastructure in data centres and carrier networks, making testing and monitoring of networks and applications in both the lab and live environments critical.
Olga Yashkova, Program Manager, Test & Measurement Practice at Frost & Sullivan, said: "Spirent has aligned its test equipment design capability with dynamic customer needs, to provide highly optimised and converged test solutions with higher scalability, greater density and increased performance to address real-life network traffic environment."

Spirent is said to be the preferred provider of high-scale, high-density converged solutions for ethernet and cloud testing and has played a prominent role in some of the largest public tests. Industry leaders such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Chunghwa Telecom, Extreme Networks and Juniper, among others, continue to turn to Spirent to address high-speed ethernet and cloud computing testing. Spirent was the first company to introduce a cloud infrastructure testing solution, pioneering the performance, availability, security and scalability (PASS) test methodology.