Active Testing vs. Passive Monitoring
To capture the true end-user experience, any testing solution needs to extend beyond the core network and operations firewall, measuring the data transaction from point of initiation to its final destination.
The complete solution must have both an active and passive component, with active testing complementing your existing passive network testing capabilities. Passive monitoring is needed for troubleshooting performance issues, analyzing trends, and planning for future growth.
Active testing generates traffic for the specific purpose of understanding the complete end-to-end experience. It lets you quickly know when the service is impacted and helps you work with your partners to quickly diagnose and fix the issue.
Why Active Testing
- End User Perspective - Improve the consistency of customer experience by monitoring a common set of customer services throughout the entire network footprint.
- Quick Issue Detection - Indentify and localization of troubled service and network can be achieved before action service degradation and revenue impact
- Reproducibility - Save time by generating the specific traffic you need to test, you can instantly recreate an issue to investigate the cause or validate a fix.
- Network Planning – Load and Stress testing can uncover limitations of network element capabilities
- Test Scope Control – You are in control of the test scope and parameters to proactively test key data services.
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