Three “Best of Show” awards, including the prestigious “Grand Prize” for Spirent’s industry-first high-density test solution that can simulate realistic Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads via Ethernet, were given to Spirent Communications by Interop Tokyo 2024.
Collaborating with its longstanding Japanese partner, TOYO Corporation, Spirent emerged victorious in the Testing category of Interop’s annual show awards.
Not only did the Spirent AI Data Center Test Solution win a “Best of Show” Special Prize, but the Spirent Octobox Wi-Fi 7 test solution and the Spirent B3 800G Appliance also received recognition.
“We are thrilled and honored that our innovative Spirent AI traffic emulation platform has been awarded Interop’s prestigious Grand Prize,” said Masatoshi Nishihara, general manager of Spirent Japan. “The explosion in AI applications and workloads is creating new data center environments, and we are delighted that the judges have recognized the pioneering work done by our engineers to create a ground-breaking new solution. It provides the ability for customers to test Ethernet fabrics in their existing test environments without having to go to the considerable expense of building new xPU server-equipped labs to generate AI workloads.”
The first hardware that can simulate the high density 400G xPU workloads for AI settings is Spirent’s new AI Test Solution. By making use of the RoCEv2 protocol, the Spirent platform reduces the complexity of testing AI use cases with its user-friendly design, simple configuration process, and repeatable and consistent results.
It boasts the credentials of a true multi-purpose platform that can test both AI and routing/switching use cases concurrently. It supports the Collective Communications Library (CCL), which helps create realistic traffic patterns that can cause network congestion, resulting in packet loss and high latency—critical to measuring the performance of the training environment under real AI workloads.
“We’re proud to be first company to provide customers with an AI workload emulation platform for Ethernet and are excited that the Interop judges have recognized the significance of our solution as the AI landscape continues to develop and data center architecture evolves to cater to AI/ML workloads,” said Nishihara.
The B3 800G Appliance high-density native 800G OSFP and QSFP-DD test platform was awarded a ShowNet “Best of Show” Special Prize in recognition of Spirent’s leadership in 800G.
The vendor-neutral test system, which was the first in its class to implement IEEE 802.3df requirements, received praise for its role in hastening 800G installations, which would let the networking sector to power new AI/ML applications.
Spirent’s innovative Octobox automated wireless testbed for evaluating over-the-air Wi-Fi 7 (IEEE 802.11be) and legacy or 5G network equipment and devices was also acknowledged with a “Best of Show” Special Prize.
The judges recognized Octobox for helping users test and emulate the particular requirements of Wi-Fi’s newest generation by simulating real-world scenarios like interference, traffic, and mesh handover in a stable, automated, repeatable testing environment.
At Interop, Spirent and Aviz Networks’ partnership is making waves elsewhere by showcasing Aviz’s approach to bolstering the Networking 3.0 Stack. With the addition of Spirent Landslide, Aviz is able to provide clients with more open, hardware vendor-neutral techniques for carrying out intelligent traffic monitoring across a range of 5G network applications, including corporate and industrial, mission-critical services, voice, video, and data.
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