Newsletter #06

Newsletter #06 – September 2016

IoTAS Offers a Full GCF IMS VoLTE Testing Solution

IoTAS offers a full VoLTE testing solution to ensure your product complies with all of the criteria outlined by the Global Certification Forum (GCF). We have experienced Engineers ready to meet your testing needs. IoTAS have successfully completed VoLTE testing in the following countries;

• Australia (Telstra)
• Germany (Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica DE and Vodafone DE)
• Italy (Vodafone Italy)
• Japan (NTT DoCoMo)
• Portugal (Vodafone Portugal)
• Spain (Vodafone ES)

UK (EE UK) IoTAS are capable of capturing and analyzing both protocol and IMS logs, for test case validation, defect investigation and performance analysis.

In addition to GCF testing IoTAS have developed our own VoLTE solution which goes beyond the requirements of the tests included in the GCF-CC F5.2 by testing additional aspects of VoLTE functionality to ensure better device compliance to GSMA IR.9x documents.

Examples of the areas these additional tests cover are;

Performance (KPI)

• VoLTE Call Setup KPI (MO & MT)
• VoLTE Call Stability KPI
• SRVCC Success Rate KPI (multiple repetitions covering multiple scenarios)
• Default EPS Bearer Performance during VoLTE Call over Dedicated EPS Bearer KPI

Functionality

• VoLTE to UTRAN SRVCC*
• VoLTE to GERAN SRVCC*
• Voice and Data interworking
• Multiple types of MO & MT call scenarios
• Multiple types of SMS & MMS scenarios
• Supplementary Services*
• SRVCC with Supplementary Services*
• Out Of Coverage
• Interworking with Wifi

* Multiple scenarios not covered in GCF-CC F5.2 are tested

To learn more about VoLTE and the services IoTAS offer click here.