Spirent Wins VoLTE Innovation of the Year Award

Singapore, November 17, 2017 - Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), a global leader in mobile network, service, and device testing, is proud to announce its Umetrix® Voice (Nomad) solution was voted VoLTE Innovation of the Year, a prestigious award presented at the recent Telecom Asia Reader’s Choice & Innovation ceremony held in Singapore. The event, celebrating its 10th anniversary, brought together industry leaders collectively recognized for their vision, inventiveness, and contribution to mobile technology advancement across the Asia-Pacific region.

Global deployments of Voice over LTE (VoLTE), the industry-agreed progression of voice services across mobile networks, continue to accelerate at an impressive pace. In fact, research from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) points to 203 operators around the world currently investing in VoLTE deployments, trials or studies. With a single network for voice and data, VoLTE implementation brings benefits to operators in terms of cost, network efficiency, and interoperability, as well as an HD audio experience to users. The VoLTE user experience continues to excel as demand for video calls and multimedia services intensifies. Spirent’s test platform enables reliable measurement of VoLTE call quality and performance for any device, on any network, anywhere in the world, both in the lab and using live infrastructure.

“Improvements in time-to-market and quality are possible with modern test strategies that measure the right metrics, in the right environments, at the right time,” said Rich McNally, senior director at Spirent Communications. “The Umetrix platform was designed to provide quantifiable, repeatable insight that identifies areas of poor performance and uncovers troublesome issues before our customers’ users encounter them. We sincerely appreciate the recognition from Telecom Asia and are honored to receive such a respected accolade.”

To learn more about Spirent’s quality of experience test and measurement solutions, please visit https://www.spirent.com/Solutions/Service-Experience.