通信行业的测试和保障

随着5G商用进程步入中场阶段，问题已不再是5G能否实现预期，而是运营商如何充分释放其潜力。从通过专网、固定无线接入（FWA）和API支持的服务推动收入，到为6G的变革性能力做准备，本报告揭示了塑造未来连接性的战略。 2025年思博伦5G报告是您在快速演变的电信领域保持领先的行动指南。深入了解推动当前5G商用的关键参与者与创新成果，并发现随着行业向6G过渡，未来将带来哪些变革。获取切实可行的战略，助您保持竞争力并开拓新的收入来源。

The Lab-to-Live white paper, produced in partnership with Appledore Research, explores the critical shift required for modern networks to adopt a seamless testing and deployment approach. As cloud-native networks become central to enabling scalable, resilient, and agile infrastructure, traditional testing methods can no longer keep up. Lab-to-Live is a holistic strategy that integrates lab testing, network deployment, and operational monitoring into a unified lifecycle, fostering continuous improvement and stronger collaboration across development and operations. __Key takeaways__ from this research emphasize the importance of agile testing environments and proactive monitoring for cloud-native network resilience. With networks increasingly defined by software-driven applications, ensuring reliability involves rapid fault recovery and a shift from hardware-based resilience to software-based fault tolerance. This approach leverages continuous testing and visibility across all network components to proactively address failures, optimize resource usage, and support multi-vendor environments.

__What O-RAN Deployments will look like and how to make sure they perform__ Open RAN networks are viewed by some as an all or nothing initiative: if they aren't fully multi-vendor and disaggregated in the early days of rollout, then the initiative has failed. The reality is more complex. There are many options for deploying Open RAN, which means providers have a variety of paths they can take to address their specific needs. Deployments are happening in Greenfields with companies like Rakuten and DISH networks, and in Brownfields with companies like Docomo, which are investing in sizable initiatives. There’s been a wave of O-RAN-ready investments, too, with O-RAN-compatible, single vendor type systems. There are many more deployments coming, but there is still a gap between the pioneers and the large scale full multi-vendor nationwide O-RAN deployments. A good area of progress over the last few years has been Tier 1 vendor commitments to include O-RAN in their product roadmaps, which is a big win for operators, brings commercial confidence to the movement, and expands the market for new entrants, as there's more of a footprint of the network for them to deploy into.

Spirent’s FWA Competitive Benchmarking and Optimization solution offers a comprehensive look into the complexities that communication service providers (CSPs) face when deploying and validating 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks. As 5G adoption grows, CSPs are under increasing pressure to ensure that their FWA services not only meet performance expectations but also differentiate from competitors. This solution brief highlights the importance of real-world testing and independent performance analysis to address these demands and highlights several key questions that CSPs must answer to ensure success: - Does the service meet the minimum and maximum performance values as advertised? - How does the customer experience compare to competitors' offerings? - What areas of the network require optimization to remain competitive? - How can CSPs obtain unbiased, third-party validation of their network performance for marketing and operational purposes?

5G is a limitless market opportunity—if you can reduce the risks for end users, your supply chain, and your business. As one recent analyst report reminds us, “Trust is the foundational principle for technology adoption.” Yet trust is an elusive commodity in developing secure 5G use cases. The complexity of 5G security is so overwhelming that it actually creates a new form of risk: inertia. If your business cannot solve the security challenges of 5G, it risks falling behind and incurring the opportunity costs of inaction. At the same time, there is urgent pressure to deploy new services quickly, compounding the risks.

Cloud-native networks offer tremendous benefits – greater agility, faster release time, shorter time-to-market, lower costs, and the potential for telcos to avoid vendor lock-in. As network providers race to take advantage of clouds, how can they ensure that their services operate as promised and their customers enjoy the superior experience they expect? Hybrid clouds require enhanced collaboration with vendors and heightened vigilance against cyberattacks. In this paper, we look at the trends that are driving these challenges, particularly the move to hybrid clouds, and examine how test and assurance needs to evolve to support the agile new services running on cloud-native networks.