Test & Measurement World Magazine has honored Spirent Communications' (News - Alert) flagship test platform, Spirent TestCenter, with the 2012 Test of Time award. Spirent received the award for excellence in testing and commitment to provide the industry with state-of-the-art testing performance over the long term.

In a press release, Jeff Schmitz, vice president, Networks & Applications group at Spirent, said, "When we first introduced Spirent TestCenter it was ahead of its time - a game-changer that offered an innovative approach to testing. Since then Spirent TestCenter been on the cutting edge of testing innovation, focused on delivering the greatest test coverage with highest performance, with the ultimate goal of helping our customers meet their business objectives."

Spirent TestCenter was launched in 2005 as an integrated solution that tests the performance, availability, security and scalability of communications and networking technologies. The solution addresses needs of customers in a wide range of industries, including retail, financial services and networking. The Spirent TestCenter monitors actual network scenarios and traffic patterns and highlights problems when they arise.

Spirent TestCenter is upgraded continuously to meet the testing requirements of customers in fast-growing technologies areas such as virtualization, cloud computing, backhaul and evolved packet core for 3G/LTE (News - Alert) networks, security and high-speed Ethernet. Spirent TestCenter user gets a high return on investment (ROI) with low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Spirent TestCenter is the pick of companies using Layer 2 to Layer 7 IP and Ethernet technologies required to deliver any application over any network and on any device. The platform is already in use by Brocade, Cisco Systems, Extreme Networks, Juniper Networks (News - Alert) and many others. Spirent TestCenter is also the leading choice of independent test labs such as EANTC, Network Test, UNH-IOL and others.

Spirent Communications was recently in news when it announced that Spirent CS8 Wireless Device Design Tester now offers a configurable IMS implementation to assist in the development of mobile devices and chipsets. The newly added function allows mobile device designers to develop products that deliver IMS-based services like VoLTE, presence-based instant messaging, video messaging, desktop sharing and new location-based services, faster and with fewer issues.