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Read why customers churn if you don’t evolve toward optimized latency and responsiveness.

The industry is undergoing a fundamental shift: success is no longer defined by how much bandwidth you offer, but by how consistently fast and responsive your network feels.
Leading operators are now building “fast-track lanes” for time-critical applications — ensuring stable, low-latency performance even under load.

Discover how automated testing is transforming the landscape of mobile operator services, improving efficiency, and ensuring flawless user experiences. Explore the advantages of Acctopus Degust, a cutting-edge tests and monitoring automation system, to streamline operations and enhance service quality.In today’s fast-paced digital age, the demand for seamless and uninterrupted mobile operator services is higher than ever. As users rely on their devices for communication, entertainment, and business transactions, the pressure on mobile operators to deliver impeccable service experiences has escalated. This is where the power of automated testing comes into play, revolutionizing the industry and redefining efficiency. The Evolution of Testing in Mobile Operator Services Traditionally, testing mobile operator services involved manual and time-consuming processes. Engineers had to manually simulate user interactions, network scenarios, and wait for system responses to identify potential glitches and weak points. This approach was not only labor-intensive but also prone to human errors, often leading to undetected issues slipping through the cracks and causing service disruptions. Automated testing has changed this landscape dramatically. By leveraging sophisticated software and tools, mobile operators can now simulate and evaluate a wide range of scenarios rapidly and accurately. This includes testing within the operators’ core systems, signaling communication, Service Order Management (SOM), and Customer Order Management (COM). Even more impressively, end-to-end (E2E) tests are made possible through Acctopus Degust’s innovative Explorers. Revolutionizing Testing At the forefront of this testing revolution is Acctopus Degust, a comprehensive tests and monitoring automation system designed specifically for mobile and fixed operators. Acctopus Degust introduces a new era of testing efficiency by allowing operators to simulate signaling communication within their core systems, SOM, COM, and even conduct E2E tests using the Degust Explorers. The Degust Explorers, acting as 2G-5G User Equipment (UE) or Fiber-connected devices, emulate user behaviors and interactions with the network. This dynamic testing approach offers a holistic perspective of service quality, identifying potential bottlenecks and vulnerabilities that might escape traditional testing methods. Advantages of Acctopus Degust Enhanced Efficiency: Acctopus Degust accelerates testing processes, reducing time-to-market for new services and updates. Its automated simulations enable comprehensive testing in a fraction of the time it would take manually. Flawless User Experiences: With E2E tests and user behavior simulations, Acctopus Degust ensures that the end-user experiences seamless services across different scenarios and network conditions. Cost Savings: By automating testing processes, mobile operators minimize the resources required for manual testing, resulting in significant cost savings. Realistic Scenarios: The Degust Explorers mimic real user interactions, offering insights into actual service performance under various conditions, which is crucial for maintaining high-quality services. Reliability: Automated testing eliminates the risk of human errors, improving the accuracy and reliability of test results. In conclusion, the era of manual testing in mobile operator services is giving way to a new era of efficiency and quality assurance through automated testing. Acctopus Degust stands at the forefront of this transformation, enabling mobile operators to streamline operations, deliver flawless user experiences, and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving industry. Embrace the power of automation with Acctopus Degust and unlock the full potential of your mobile operator services.

In mobile networks, seamless handovers are essential for delivering consistent user experience.
Dropped calls, buffering streams or laggy apps often result from poor handover performance.
This article explains how smart handover management in 4G and 5G—especially Inter-Frequency scenarios—can dramatically boost customer satisfaction and service quality.

Delivering flawless service is critical to customer loyalty.

With our Quality‑Automation SaaS, operators and vendors quickly detect and fix network and service issues—often before users notice. From faster time‑to‑market to reduced churn and greater cost‑control, our platform transforms quality into a strategic advantage.

Understanding how your service performs in the wild is key.
When you monitor from the customer’s vantage point—capturing latency, drops and experience across devices—you spot issues before users feel them. Real‑user testing and continuous automation deliver deeper insight, faster time‑to‑resolution and greater retention.
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We listened to our customers and prospects and removed your major pain points: You want it NOW and IN FULL EXTENT.

Bring the quality of your web projects to the next level. You are constantly testing your web projects using tools like Ranorex Studio, Katalon or basic Selenium? Combine your knowledge and existing tools with complete End-2-End testing and monitoring of the involved backend systems.  If you use tools like standard web driver automation, you will always compare expectations with the real world. But you can only see the results from the front-end view. In all cases, where the problem is within the backend, your test throws an error or will at least ask you for manual evaluation. Using Degust you can automate even these steps. Degust will be integrated with your frontend tests by getting raw information from your backend systems, like databases, authentication systems, and 3rd party apps. This may turn your result and limit the effort to troubleshoot the real source of your problems.  Additionally, Degust will run your tests on thousands of systems in parallel, if required from different countries or continents. How to use… Degust is designed to issue tests against all kinds of systems. As part of these tests, the user can configure complete web browser sessions to check the state of the development in an agile scenario. Degust is also scaled to run these tests in thousands of different situations from certain sources controlled or in parallel. Currently, our customers are issuing 4 MM such tests per day. This turns ‘Testing’ into ‘Monitoring’ and is the final bit, no other solution is designed for in the first place.

You are starting a new project and need to run your new software in different locations or even in certain countries. Some customers have great developing resources, but they don’t want to invest or simply don’t have the time to develop the potentially global networking, monitoring, and security infrastructure underknees. This will always lead to challenges when it comes to updating their software or monitoring the systems or if they want to scale above some hundreds of systems. Using Degust, customers will install a downloadable image onto their systems and backpack it with their own programs and scripts. They are still in 100% control over their systems, but Degust takes care of monitoring, benchmarking, and software release management. Instead of starting with months of planning and evaluating, you can start in hours at a small monthly fee per device.

The Authentication Server Function (AUSF) is used in 5G networks to authenticate users or systems to the 5G network. The AUSF is part of the Acctopus NetMaut Policy Platform for mobile operators and thus is seamlessly being used together with services in the 2G-4G area. It provides authentication services and other security-related services to the 5G Core network through the Nausf Service-Based Interface. The AUSF authenticates the user equipment using information queries from the Nudm_UEAuthentication Service and uses the method specified and required by the service consumer. Where required, it calculates the keys necessary to protect a list or steering information. Allow 5G tests and monitoring using Acctopus Degust As Acctopus NetMaut and Degust are sharing code bases and functionality, the 5G Authentication Server Function became part of Degust Quality Automation Service. Degust subscribers have now access to the AUSF and will integrate the functionality into their tests and monitoring to speed up acceptance procedures and go-live project plans.

Our Authentication, Policy, and Charging platform Acctopus NetMaut exceeded 30 MM subscribers in RADIUS Authentication, 3GPP Gx PCRF policy, and 3GPP Gy OCS charging in a single customer’s installation. Thanks to our team, the service could run flawlessly while scaling out over the past months. We all love numbers: 20 MM mobile sessions / day240 MM RADIUS messages / day420 MM Diameter Gx policy messages / day600 MM Diameter Gy charging messages / day All tested and monitored using Acctopus Degust The quality is kept at its maximum by constantly testing all possible situations 24/7 Raw signaling RADIUS, Diameter, LDAP  E2E testing mobile sessions Global testing using SIM distribution agile testing during integration and configuration …