Case Study
Sprint Benchmarks 5G Network Using Volcano Test Solution
About Sprint • Tier-1 carrier • Headquartered in Kansas City, KS • Served 54.5 million connections (as of 3/31/2019) • Launching mobile 5G in metro areas of nine U.S. markets About Volcano • Allows for remote control of devices for running test scripts • Allows for the launching of test scripts from devices • Generates orchestrated Ping, Web Browsing, FTP, HTTP, iPerf, Voice and SMS traffic • Calculates real-time throughout monitoring, GPS and log generation • Allows transferrable licensing model for devices • Supports Android TM , iOS TM , Windows TM and IoT devices Stress for Success Sprint’s engineers knew they needed a new way to generate traffic to effectively simulate a network under load; however, they had to do it in way that wouldn’t divert critical tech