Communications & Networking

In carrier and enterprise networks, unplanned downtime affects services, users, and SLA compliance. Early-life device failures that could have been caught in production screening create the kind of emergency maintenance events that are costly, disruptive, and preventable. Burn-in with test shifts those discoveries to the right side of deployment.

Communications hardware is expected to remain in service for years, often in environments where physical replacement requires significant planning and expense. The confidence that burn-in provides at the beginning of a device’s life pays dividends across its entire operational lifetime, saving your organization time, cost, and headaches long into the future throughout the life of the devices.

Networking devices don’t operate in bursts; they run continuously, under sustained electrical load, for years at a time. Burn-in mirrors that reality by applying extended electrical and thermal stress that short-duration tests simply can’t replicate. Sustained exposure provides a more realistic testing environment that surfaces the marginal behaviors and latent defects that are most likely to cause problems in the field after deployment.

Networking devices generate significant heat under sustained traffic loads, and thermal behavior that looks acceptable during short-duration testing can become a reliability risk under continuous operation. Burn-in with test applies controlled thermal stress alongside electrical stress, surfacing heat-related marginal conditions, junction sensitivity, packaging stress, and thermal impedance variation, before devices are installed in systems that never get a break.