Spirent Communications introduces the next generation of its mobile core network validation platform – Landslide C100-M6. Engineered for the increasingly complex and high-volume traffic demands of 5G Standalone (SA) deployments, AI-driven services and encrypted traffic at operator scale, Landslide M6 provides the increased performance required to validate and accelerate the next phase of network growth.
As 5G SA networks grow more complex with service-based architectures, testing labs have struggled to keep pace with new traffic patterns generated by network slicing, encrypted signaling, and AI-driven applications. To help operators meet these challenges, the Landslide platform has evolved with the M6 capable of delivering up to 3x faster activation rates than its predecessor, 10x more encrypted traffic capacity, and, for the first time, the ability to handle TLS acceleration.
“The networks our customers are building today look fundamentally different from what they were testing just a few years ago. Now, encrypted traffic is the default, not the exception, and AI workloads are driving signalling patterns no one anticipated, so operators need to know before they go live that their core can handle it. Landslide M6 has been purpose-built to provide the validation foundation needed to support these advanced service rollouts and evolving architectures, while delivering the performance headroom and flexibility network equipment manufacturers need to prepare infrastructure for 6G evolution” said Anil Kollipara, Vice President of Product Management at Spirent.
Landslide M6 is available as both a high-performance hardware appliance and a virtual test server, giving teams flexibility in deployment. It introduces dedicated AI application traffic emulation capabilities, including traffic libraries and workload modeling designed to replicate the behavior of AI and machine learning services on live networks. As operators prepare to support AI-native applications and services, this capability ensures they can validate performance under realistic, next-generation traffic conditions before those services reach subscribers.
