Keynote Builds Test Network
ORLANDO, Fla. — Keynote Systems, the
global leader in mobile and Internet test and measurement services, has
announced the build-out of the world’s largest globally distributed mobile
test and measurement network for interactive testing and monitoring of
wireless content, applications and services using both real and emulated
mobile devices on live wireless networks. Keynote’s “shared infrastructure”
will provide mobile content developers, service providers and carriers with
a complete testing and monitoring service - on an “as-needed” basis - to
better ensure the quality of their mobile content, services and
applications.
Keynote’s on-demand, global testing and monitoring service will initially
allow companies to measure and monitor their mobile applications, services
and content quality on both real and emulated devices from 20 cities, across
more than 50 carriers worldwide, with additional cities and carriers to be
added as dictated by demand. Using the Keynote service, mobile operators,
developers and content providers will, for the first time, be able to
cost-effectively measure, monitor and manage the quality and performance of
their mobile applications, services and content - all from their own
desktops.
Customers will access the global network using Keynote’s two products:
Mobile Device Perspective (MDP) and Mobile Application Perspective (MAP).
Mobile Device Perspective addresses the challenge of testing and managing
the subscriber experience of today’s increasingly complex mobile
applications by providing mobile operators, content developers and service
providers with an easy way to test and measure mobile content and services
using real devices, on live wireless networks, from multiple geographic
locations around the globe. MDP allows users to perform remote tests on real
devices, on more than 50 wireless networks, from multiple geographic
locations globally, all from their own desktops via the MyKeynote Web
portal.
A complementary service, Mobile Application Perspective, provides customers
with an efficient, reliable, repeatable, interactive way to test and
validate mobile content and applications on thousands of emulated device
profiles. All tests are done with an extensive, up-to-date library of 1,000
different emulated devices and user profiles, with the added ability to load
additional device profiles into the library as needed.
To date, both MDP and MAP have been sold strictly as dedicated services to
companies with more extensive mobile testing and monitoring needs. With
today’s announcement of Keynote’s expanded infrastructure, offered as a
shared service, a wider range of companies will now be able to take
advantage of MDP and MAP. Keynote’s hosted, on-demand solution for both
monitoring and testing of mobile content and services will be extremely
attractive to small and mid-sized companies, or to larger companies who are
just starting to test and measure their mobile applications and content.
Testing will be sold by the daily time block, and measurements will be sold
by the transaction. Prices start at $500 per day for interactive testing
services and $500 per month for transaction monitoring.
The two services that will now be offered on an “as-needed” basis are as
follows:
- Monitoring - This service provides companies with the ability to book
emulated and/or real handsets, for a block of time, for mobile content or
services monitoring. Keynote’s mobile monitoring infrastructure will provide
BOTH a limited number of real handsets and modems and access to more than
1,000 emulated handsets in up to 20 locations globally.
- Testing - This service provides companies with the ability to book an
emulated or real handset, for a block of time, for mobile content or
services testing. Keynote mobile testing infrastructure will provide a range
of real handsets in two geographic locations, or access to more than 1,000
emulated handsets in up to 20 locations globally, connected to live networks
via modems.
“With the announced build-out of our shared mobile test and measurement
network, Keynote is now able to provide our mobile test and measurement
service to the hundreds of small to mid-size mobile content developers and
operators looking for a cost-effective testing and monitoring solution,”
said Umang Gupta, chairman and CEO of Keynote. “For the mobile Internet to
reach the next level, users need to be confident that they will receive
consistent quality of service from their premium data services, content and
applications. As we have done with the broader Internet, Keynote intends to
provide the trusted third-party performance data that will allow the mobile
Internet to more fully mature and grow into a mass medium.”
Keynote Systems Inc.
