Spirent Communications has landed a contract to modernize and automate a global network of test laboratories for a financial services organization.
The project, which kicks off in December, puts Spirent in the position of designing, installing and configuring the unnamed company’s new, automated testing infrastructure. It leans on CI/CD/CT (continuous integration/delivery/testing) capabilities that Spirent acquired through the $8.3 million purchase of Netscout Systems’ Test Lab Automation business earlier this fall. “By automating its test lab capabilities with Spirent’s solution and services, this world-leading retail and investment bank will be able to significantly accelerate delivery of new products, version upgrades, and services to its customers, while ensuring strict compliance and benefitting from major productivity gains and cost savings,” the test company said.
Spirent said that its solution will be used to automate more than 6,250 test procedures, starting with the company’s central test lab.
“Currently, it can take large organizations months or even years to fully complete a test procedure from design and execution to analysis of test results,” Spirent said in a release, adding that it expects to reduce that time to “a matter of hours, with productivity gains expected to exceed upwards of 75%.”
Eric Updyke, CEO of Spirnt, called the project an “important strategic order” that “provides a proof point of our drive to leverage our world-leading Velocity test and automation solutions into a new set of customers with complex network environments they are struggling to test and validate manually.”
