Spirent Communications: Spirent M1 Compact Appliance

Spirent’s M1 platform supports evolving testing needs for Ethernet and other emerging technologies.

Spirent’s M1 platform supports the evolving testing needs for Ethernet and other emerging technologies. With its built-in flexibility, the new space-saving platform is designed to accelerate time to market for new technologies while also improving product quality and ensuring reliable, high-quality user experiences. Spirent M1 Compact Appliance is an ideal tool for the entire test lifecycle for functional, performance, and benchmark testing of new networking products targeting network infrastructure and validating evolving SDN and NFV technologies. M1's platform architecture delivers higher reliability and density with eight network interface card (NIC) slots. Support for a wide variety of NIC combinations means the ability to create additional appliance kits for specific testing needs. 

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