Mu Dynamics Delivers New Test Suite Solving the Complex Challenges of Testing IP Services

Delivers Radically Faster, Higher Quality and Lower Cost IP Service Testing to Tier 1 Operators, Juniper, and Other Customers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mu Dynamics, the leading provider of IP services testing, today announced a significant expansion to its award-winning Mu Test Suite solution including many new capabilities. Customers are already finding Mu’s newest solution delivers a 10-fold productivity improvement over traditional testing solutions. Mu’s solution is proven to help customers deliver higher quality IP services faster and cheaper across the Network Infrastructure, Wired & Mobile services, Cloud Computing services, Government services, and Smart Grid ecosystems.

"Juniper, as the leader in high performance network, counts on the innovation in testing that Mu consistently delivers to our teams," said Avishai Avivi, Sr. Director of Engineering Operations, High-end Security Systems at Juniper Networks. "Mu enables our development teams to rigorously test wide variations of IP service-level traffic in order to produce high-quality releases that our customers depend on to run the most secure and reliable networks in the world."

“We’ve been a strong advocate of Mu’s adaptive testing strategy for several years and are pleased to see Mu providing us with a new strategic advantage, the ability to use our own IP Service traffic samples to quickly develop stateful testing of our Cloud and LTE-based service offerings, said a Senior VP of a Tier 1 Operator. “As a leading provider of advanced IP Services we chose to use the new Mu Studio testing solution to help extend our competitive stance in the market by effectively testing newly developed services. Ensuring IP Service quality through a combination of functional, interoperability, security and reliability testing using Mu is well aligned to our goal of providing our customers with the industry’s highest quality services.”

IP services within Mu’s customer ecosystems are all mission critical, but the underlying complexity of these environments combined with the unique, custom, and rapidly evolving nature of each specific service makes testing a huge challenge. Prior to deploying Mu’s solution, customers uniformly lacked an effective testing solution resulted in widespread delays in service releases, budget overruns, support backlogs and services deployed of sub par quality.

“A new growth catalyst for testing complex real-time information applications is clearly emerging in many related industries,” said Mike Montecillo, Principal Analyst, Security and Risk Management, EMA Associates. “Mu’s approach of sampling a customer’s actual service traffic for test creation rapidly improves IP service product quality, time to market, and effectiveness. For more than 4 years, Mu has been the Avant-garde leader in innovating technology to address the challenges associated with testing IP services.”

“We are always looking for ways to battle test our products before our customers ever see them. We’ve been a Mu user for several years and have increasingly found the Mu solution to be a key part of our ability to uncover issues that no other tool provides our QA team,” said Tushar Patel, VP SW & QA at Force10 Networks. “Based on our feedback to the Mu development team Force10 is finding the new capabilities represent a true breakthrough in enabling realistic and effective IP Service testing.”

“Building test cases manually is not only de rigueur in the industry, it's also typically the only option available. The move to IP packet networks, and more importantly, the deployment of richly variable IP services, creates complex environments and conditions, so the manual method doesn’t scale,” stated Michael Howard, Principal Analyst, Infonetics Research. “Productivity breakthroughs, such as those by Mu Dynamics, offer customers the ability to use real traffic packet captures to automatically generate thousands of classes of tests in hours as opposed to writing test cases for weeks or months."

Customers and analysts both note that Mu’s adaptive testing approach is a breakthrough for the industry. Mu now uniquely offers the industry’s only integrated solution to quickly and cost effectively address the key requirements of IP service testing regardless of the specific customer ecosystem. Mu does this by:

• Accurately emulating the logic of the IP Service to provide thorough testing of the actual service not just individually testing the underlying components
• Driving multiple types of data by sampling IP service traffic including customer content, Mu content and/or third-party content (e.g. Mu’s Pcapr site. www.pcapr.net) in order to accurately simulate end user behavior
• Enabling Multiple Aspects of Testing including Functional, Interoperability, Security and Resilience in a single platform so work done by customers can be leveraged across testing types.

”There is a common IP Service testing requirement which remains unmet across many industries including network operators, cloud computing, mobile computing and even smart grid applications,” said Peter Fetterolf, Principal Analyst at NSP Partners. “Customers are demanding quicker return on investment (ROI) and a higher level of integration amongst their test tools. Mu’s approach delivers measurable ROI - a 10x or more improvement - over using existing test solutions.”

Mu counts the largest service providers and vendors in North America and worldwide, among its growing customer base. Publicly referenceable customers include Alcatel/Genesys, BT, Cox Communications, F5 Networks, Honeywell - Process Control, Juniper Networks, Motorola, Redback/Ericsson, Starent Networks, and Veraz Networks. Other customers include leading service providers, Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Government agencies, and “smart grid” providers.

“IP service complexity continues to escalate and barriers are rapidly fading for testing between network infrastructure, wired and mobile services, the cloud and enterprise services, and smart grid,” said Olga Yashkova, Research Analyst, Test & Measurement, Frost & Sullivan. “Customers clearly want this type of integrated testing solution to cut costs, increase productivity and speed their products to market with the highest possible quality.”

”The relationship we have with our customers continues to be central to our success as a company,” said Dave Kresse, CEO of Mu Dynamics. “The new capabilities we are announcing today come as a direct response to the widespread pain we see in our existing customer base. Our award-winning Mu Test Suite now addresses a broader set of our customer’s challenges, and is already at work doing a better job of enabling our customers to roll out higher quality IP services more quickly and cost effectively.”

About Mu Dynamics

Mu Dynamics’ testing solution offers a more than 10-fold effectiveness gain in IP services testing with better time to market, lower cost and higher quality. The award-winning Mu solution is deployed at over 100 locations, primarily at leading global service providers, government agencies, and product vendors. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, more information on Mu’s products, customers and solutions are online at http://www.mudynamics.com.