Serving Gateway (S-GW) Functional Tester

The LTE S-GW Functional Tester is a comprehensive testing tool for the Serving-Gateway LTE network element. The system emulates all of the LTE network elements connected to the S-GW, and tests its interfaces to other network elements, as well as correctness of implementation based on all of the relevant 3GPP released standards.

 

Description

Testing an LTE network’s S-GW requires testing the network element’s different Diameter interfaces, as well as testing how it interacts with other connected elements in the network.

The LTE Serving Gateway Functional Tester provides all these testing features and more. The S-GW tester emulates all of the LTE network elements surrounding the S-GW (System Under Test), such as an LTE eNodeB, the P-GW, the MME, the SGSN and the RNC. It tests the S1-u, S4, S5/S8, S11, and S12 interfaces of the S-GW.

The S-GW Functional Tester tests the correctness of an implementation of LTE Serving Gateway in accordance with 3GPP TS 29.274, TS 29.281, TS 23.401 and other relevant Release 8, Release 9 and Release 10 standards.

Polaris Networks has defined the functional test cases for S-GW testing.

  • SGW ‘wrap-around’ conformance test tool
  • Large number of automated, pre-scripted tests
  • Includes Negative and tests for Abnormal scenarios
  • Allows users to change content & order of PDU
  • Source code of test scripts available to the user