Vodafone Innovation Park
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The Vodafone Innovation Park is a test center run by Vodafone. The test center is an IT & telecommunication testing, consulting and development facility, based in Duesseldorf, Germany. In 2012 it succeeded from the Vodafone Test and Innovation Center.
Service description
The Vodafone Innovation Park
- Offers customised and tailored testing solutions for the telecommunications industry
- Caters for testing requirements at any point in the lifecycle, either on-site or remotely
- Provides an end-to-end test infrastructure using the latest technology in a real-world, multi-vendor environment
- Supports product development with innovative methodologies
Areas of competence include:
- Connected Home
- Health
- LTE
- M2M
- IPv6
- Interoperability Tests with a huge archive of mobiles and components
- Data Network of the Future
- Remote Access
- Tracing
- Automotive
- Mobile Payment
Capacity
The Test and Innovation Center provides a multi-vendor test environment, with all major GSM / UMTS / LTE system vendors. It offers a high variety of service platforms and service enablers. The Center’s test environment capacity and equipment level is equivalent to being able to run the entire mobile network of a country like Switzerland.
Facts and figures
History
The Vodafone Test and Innovation Center has been running since 1996, and was originally the reference center for Vodafone D2 services. In 2012 it was integrated into Vodafone Innovation Park to develop innovations with partners from all sectors of business, science and research.
Team
The team consists of more than 300 engineers, which operate in more than 9000 square metres of floor space. Roughly 1,100 tests are carried out each year.
Facilities
- Facilities to support development, system integration and testing at any stage in the product lifecycle
- End-to-end testing and test automation services
- A complete custom design and build service
- Load testing and stress testing using the latest soft- and hardware
- A fixed mobile convergence infrastructure
- Newest network components like IPv6