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De iTest-oplossing zorgt ervoor dat de bewaking van de realtime racesystemen van het wereldkampioenschap autosportteam net zo snel gaat als de actie op het circuit

Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), de wereldleider in test-, meet-, controle- en analyseoplossingen voor de volgende generatie apparaten en netwerken, kondigde vandaag aan dat Aston Martin Racing (AMR) zijn Test as a Service (TaaS) platform, iTest, gebruikt om het iconische automotive merk te helpen bij het bod voor het succes van het FIA World Endurance Championship GTE categorie succes.

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Aston Martin Racing maakt gebruik van een high-speed local area network (LAN) langs de baan om teamrijders en auto’s te verbinden met de pitcrew, ingenieurs en managers in de pitstraat, voor radiocommunicatie, telemetrie en videogegevens. Het FIAWEC Super Season bevat een aantal van ‘s werelds meest slopende tests van rijder en auto – waaronder de beroemde 24 uur van Le Mans – en daarom is een vlekkeloze netwerkconnectiviteit van essentieel belang voor het succes. Elke storing in de radiocommunicatie kan het team zijn positie in een race kosten, terwijl het verlies van gegevens van invloed kan zijn op het vermogen van het team om vitale real-time aanpassingen te maken of beslissingen over de controle van de race te betwisten.

Spirent Helps High-Speed Setup For Aston Martin Racing

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iTest solution ensures world championship motorsports team’s real-time race systems monitoring is as fast as the action on track

Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), the world leader in test, measurement, assurance, and analytics solutions for next-generation devices and networks, today announced that Aston Martin Racing (AMR) is using its Test as a Service (TaaS) platform, iTest, to assist the iconic automotive brand’s bid for FIA World Endurance Championship GTE category success.

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Spirent’s technical partnership with Aston Martin Racing has dramatically reduced the team’s high-speed LAN test and set-up time at FIAWEC events. (Photo: Business Wire)

Aston Martin Racing deploys a high-speed local area network (LAN) trackside to connect team drivers and cars with the pit crew, engineers and managers on pit lane, to carry radio communications, telemetry and video data. The FIAWEC Super Season includes some of the world’s most grueling tests of driver and car – including the famous Le Mans 24 Hours – hence flawless network connectivity is essential to success. Any failure in radio communications could cost the team its position in a race, while any loss of data might impact the team’s ability to make vital real-time adjustments, or contest race control decisions.

To address its event LAN test and set-up needs, Aston Martin Racing turned to its technical partnership with Spirent. As AMR Senior Analysis Engineer, Alistair Grimshaw explains: “We travel to races all over the world and until recently, every time we set up the pit garage, we had to manually check the LAN’s viability and performance – a task that was taking up a lot of time and resources. It’s much easier with iTest, all we have to do is click a button and wait a few minutes for the report.”

Working with Spirent Professional Services and using the iTest platform, the race team now has a set of automated tests that are run to ensure the network is configured correctly and faulty segments, connections or devices are replaced. The automated tests not only provide the team with the peace of mind that everything is ready for race day, it has also dramatically boosted team effectiveness with a 20X test productivity gain.

“Testing the network manually used to take over an hour every time,” said Alistair. “With iTest, it now only takes a couple of minutes and we have total confidence nothing was missed.”

iTest is a key component of Spirent’s fully-automated TaaS authoring and execution platform. It is suitable for all network automation/validation scales, ranging from trackside LANs to entire enterprise and service provider networks. Using iTest, manual testers and automation specialists produce automated and reusable tests quickly and efficiently. Together with Spirent Velocity, the TaaS platform empowers continuous testing within development cycles to dramatically speed software release deliveries, increase bug detection rates, and improve software quality.

“Since iTest is so straightforward to master, Aston Martin Racing engineers are now authoring their own automated tests as needed,” said Spirent Marketing Director, Martin Vickery. “What’s more, technicians and mechanics previously unskilled in automation, can perform needed tests unaided.

“As an AMR technical partner, it’s really satisfying to see the team rapidly resolve performance issues, whether it’s in-car or in the garage LAN environment, and see that contribute to the team’s success.”

Following a milestone first win for the new car at the 6 Hours of Shanghai race in November, Aston Martin Racing’s pursuit of success continues in 2019, when the FIAWEC SuperSeason concludes with the final three rounds of the series in the USA, Belgium and France.

More information about iTest and Spirent technical partnership with Aston Martin Racing, visit the Spirent AMR Blog.

About Spirent

Spirent Communications plc. (LSE: SPT) offers test, measurement, analytics, and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks. The company provides products, services and information for high-speed Ethernet, positioning and mobile network infrastructure markets, with expanding focus on service assurance, cybersecurity and 5G. Spirent is accelerating the transition of connected devices, network equipment and applications from development labs to the operational network, as it continues to innovate toward fully-automated testing and autonomous service assurance solutions.

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