System Integration and Testing Services
RadiSys does more than just building block level testing – we raise the bar to complete systems testing.
We understand that time-to-market goals depend on thorough and upfront integration. With more than two decades of experience in embedded communications, you can leverage our proven lifecycle expertise to get the most our of your platform solution.
- Platform Conceptualization Services: Translating requirements and functionality to ATCA optimizes Architectural Design
- Satisfies Scalability Requirements
- Meet Cost and Reliability Targets
- Maintain Software Commonality
- System Integration Testing Program: Validating Interoperability and Compatibility for System Components
- Ensures Interoperability
- Verify Backward Compatibility
- Confirm robustness with stress testing
- Speed up time-to-market
- REDI Lab: 24/7 Remote Demo and Test Facility
- Get quick, efficient, first-look interoperability testing and validation of specific configurations
- Minimize up-front resources and expenditures
- Reduce dramatically—from several weeks to just hours—the time dedicated to resolve integration issues
- Shrink interoperability test budgets and rising travel and shipment costs
- Environmental and Regulatory Testing Services: Demonstrating Compliance and Reliability ensures Compliance
- Avoid tying up Valuable Resources
- Complete Approvals Faster
- Avoid buying expensive equipment
- Customer Ready Services: Managing the Build Process Simplifies the Build Process
- Save Investment in Infrastructure
- Defer Logistics Management
- Get Products to Market Faster
- Product Life Cycle Management
- Comprehensive Support and Services: A single point of Unparalleled Support
- Entire life cycle management, from engineering and design phases all the way to end-of-life management
- Reduce costs, Increase Functionality and Accelerate Time-to-Market
Platform Conceptualization Services:
For customers who would like to jump-start their ATCA designs, RadiSys is ready to discuss platform architecture, application trade-offs, and strategies for developing flexible, cost-effective systems. We begin by analyzing the key product and business requirements with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and price targets. Then by mapping out a course to a standards-based solution, RadiSys will help determine and recommend the configuration that best serves these requirements.
Properly balanced platforms enable application software to fully utilize all the system resources and allow capacity to scale incrementally so production systems aren't over-designed. To maximize system performance and efficiency, RadiSys system architects make partition workload and data flow recommendations for optimal balancing and distribution. The goal is to develop partitioning strategies that scale across all equipment configurations—large and small—and allow customers to build several network elements using one core technology. The resulting platform is based on a cost-effective, scalable design that maintains software commonality across a range of platform configurations.
With a thorough understanding of standards-based architecture, system developers can identify best-in-class COTS components and implement techniques to lower direct product cost and TCO. RadiSys provides this level of expertise across a broad spectrum of technologies ranging from media processing, computing, switching, and packet processing.
Leveraging RadiSys platform conceptualization services is the safe choice for designing high-performance ATCA-based platforms.
System Integration Testing (SIT) Program:
One advantage of developing ATCA-based platforms is that TEMs can outsource many complex tasks, such as system integration testing. RadiSys has over 20 years of solid experience in the embedded communications market, and its engineers know how to rigorously test systems and resolve interoperability issues. They can track down and fix unexpected interactions between hardware, drivers, operating systems, and middleware, even if it means assembling the necessary vendors to find the underlying problem.
TEMs that support a family of platforms, comprising legacy and new components and various densities, are finding integration testing is resource intensive. Instead of dedicating internal staff and infrastructure for testing, many are outsourcing this function to RadiSys. Once there's a base system, RadiSys validates the core switching and shelf manager, making it easier to release multiple form factors, such as 2U, 5U, and 13U, into manufacturing with confidence. RadiSys system integration testing services reduce risks by quickly identifying reliability, performance, and compliance issues.
REDI Lab: 24/7 Remote Demo and Test Facility
The RadiSys Ecosystem Demonstration and Interoperability (REDI™) Lab is the industry's first lab for use by a global ecosystem of partners and customers, allowing them to remotely perform initial validation, testing and demonstrations of their unique solutions on RadiSys ATCA systems.
The REDI Lab reduces dramatically—from several weeks to hours—the time previously spent on initial testing and self-validation. These time-to-market savings are passed on to the customer. A high-resolution Webcam lets customers and partners observe platform activity, in real-time, anytime, from anywhere in the world.
The REDI Lab is just another way that RadiSys invests in our customers' success. Leaving nothing to chance, we deliver on our promise to provide you with the best ATCA solution that will bring your vision to market - fast.
REDI Lab Benefits:
- Get quick, efficient, first-look interoperability testing and validation of specific configurations
- Observe platform activity, in real time, during software integration and self-validation sessions
- Minimize up-front resources and expenditures typically associated with first-step evaluations and achieve time-to-market advantage
- Reduce dramatically—from several weeks to just hours—the time dedicated to resolve integration issues
- Shrink interoperability test budgets and rising travel and shipment costs
- Receive assurance that initial validation has already been performed so that your engineering teams won't be starting from ground zero
- Perform remote demos to showcase product features to customers
The REDI Lab Features:
- 24/7 access
- A dedicated, secure broadband connection
- Customized lab is outfitted with the RadiSys Promentum® ATCA application-ready platform loaded with the latest hardware and software.
- High-resolution webcam
Environmental and Regulatory Testing Services:
Telecom equipment must undergo extensive environmental and regulatory testing, as well as meet end-customer reliability and performance specifications. Customers can contract RadiSys and its team of testing experts to perform these services at its state-of-the-art facilities. These resources help OEM customers quickly and economically identify and correct product issues before they become costly customer support problems in the field. This includes testing RadiSys products in combination with customer and third-party components and in accordance with customer specifications, published product interfaces, and industry standards.
RadiSys compliance testing services include agency testing and Network Equipment Building Systems(NEBS™) testing. NEBS testing can be an expensive, time-consuming process that requires specific facilities and staff who will identify and work through challenges to achieve success.
Customers can choose among a range of services, including:
- Configuration-Specific Highly Accelerated Life Test
- Stimulates latent failure modes using thermal and vibration stresses.
- Configuration-Specific Environmental Tests -
- Validates product performance over temperature, humidity, shock, and vibration in specific configurations.
- Measures the margin beyond the specification range using a four-corner test that varies operating conditions, such as frequency and voltage.
- Configuration-Specific Reliability Demonstration Tests
- Establishes actual mean time before failure (MTBF) measurements by performing accelerated (high temperature) testing on a sample of products over an extended period of time.
- Configuration-Specific Compliance Tests
- Demonstrates conformance to system electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and product safety requirements.
- Oversees NEBS certification.
Customers that rely on RadiSys to demonstrate system compliance and reliability can avoid climbing a steep technical learning curve. They reduce risk by quickly identifying reliability, performance, and compliance issues. RadiSys environmental and regulatory testing services accelerate the equipment certification process and the start of production.
Customer Ready Services:
Building and shipping systems involve a large number of processes—acquiring and integrating components, loading software, testing, packaging, shipping, and more. Customers can now leverage manufacturing services from RadiSys to build systems that are drop-ship ready and delivered directly to end customers.
These systems can be customized to fit corporate branding requirements, such as printing company logos on chassis and boards using unique color palettes. These manufacturing services provide a cost-effective way to produce systems without having to invest in capital intensive manufacturing capabilities. RadiSys manages the entire building process to ensure equipment is delivered reliably anywhere in the world.
Customers can choose among a wide range of services, including:
- Preloading application software
- Testing to customer functional requirements
- Integrating system components
- Branding boards and chassis
- Packaging systems
- Shipping systems to end customers
- Managing the product life cycle
These services can save time and money for TEMs that don't already have anufacturing facilities and logistics management in place. And customers who have traditionally manufactured their own systems may find outsourcing these tasks yields a more responsive order fulfillment process.
RadiSys customer-ready services can get products to market faster and make the product life cycle easier to manage.
Comprehensive Support and Services:
RadiSys provides a host of services—from concept to deployment—to help its ustomers reduce cost, increase functionality and accelerate time to market. These services, backed by over two decades of embedded communications expertise, enable customers to reap the true benefits of ATCA and efficiently meet the challenges of deploying next-generation systems.
These manufacturing and integration services, plus others listed below, are offered through the RadiSys Global Services and Corporate Operations organizations.
Technical Support Services
- Diagnostics and troubleshooting
- Hardware repair
- Customized support plans and service
New Product Introduction (NPI) Services
- Hardware configuration consulting
- Software application consulting
- Integration assistance
Validation and Test Services
- Meet customer specifications and industry standards
- Third-party product system integration
- Configuration-specific environmental and regulatory testing
Training Services
- Wide range of training options (various formats offered)
Service Management
- Service planning
- Obsolescence and EOL planning
- Manage product upgrades and next-generation issues
Engineering Services
- Architecture mapping and design consulting
