Prepare Your Solution for Market Entry and Scale

CENGN Performance Testing Services

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Validate and Scale Your Software Solution for Market Readiness

Get access to enterprise-level testing infrastructure and expertise to validate your software solution’s reliability, speed, and accuracy.

Test your solution in an advanced, secure environment without incurring the costs of building your own dedicated testing infrastructure. Work with expert consultants who help plan, implement, and execute your tests to find performance issues early and optimize your solution.

Avoid expensive infrastructure investments, overcome technical barriers, and get market-ready validation faster.

Validate, Optimize, and Launch with Confidence

Access CENGN’s secure network, compute, storage infrastructure, and customizable testing services to validate your solution is optimized, scalable, and market ready. Get to market faster and meet your projected growth requirements while reducing development costs and risks.

CENGN is currently accepting 4.5 month validation projects leveraging our performance testing services, including 3 months of testing time on the CENGN Datacentre and non-dilutive funding.

Learn more about the opportunity!

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Performance Testing Services

Validate your solutions’ behaviour across various deployment environments in real-world workload scenarios and stress conditions.

Project Types and Testing Scenarios

Load Testing

Simulate Real User Traffic to Validate Performance at Scale

Load testing simulates thousands of users interacting with your application to reveal how it performs under realistic traffic conditions.

Get access to enterprise-grade infrastructure with dashboard management and support from CENGN experts to create custom test plans.

Simulate real user behaviours while monitoring response times, error rates, and resource usage as scaling traffic increases.

Stress Testing

Push Your Application Beyond Normal Limits

Stress testing pushes your application’s development to its breaking point and beyond to reveal how it behaves under extreme conditions. Simulate worst-case scenarios to identify vulnerabilities before they impact real users.

CENGN provides secure access to isolated infrastructure and solution testing experts to deploy your application in custom-made extreme test scenarios.

Using industry-standard software testing tools, you’ll get support to generate high-volume loads that test messaging queues, database performance, and API limits for system degradation and potential for improvements.

Scalability Testing

Ensure Your Application’s Ability to Scale with Demand

From steady traffic to sudden spikes, ensure your application can grow and shrink resources to match user demands. When viral spikes of users increase simultaneously, validate that your auto-scaling features work as needed.

Get access to bare-metal servers and virtual machines to deploy and test your solution.

CENGN experts guide the testing design to simulate traffic bursts, measuring response times, scaling speed, and performance while evaluating different infrastructure scaling solutions.

Latency Testing

Measure Response Times Under Real-World Conditions

Measure how fast your application responds to user requests across multiple system components. Validate that your application meets response time requirements under challenging network conditions.

CENGN provides infrastructure configured to match your deployment environments.

Work with CENGN experts to develop latency benchmarking using industry-standard testing software for user simulation and measuring network, API, and database response times. Simulate high-latency conditions and prove that your application can meet performance requirements under real-world conditions.

Throughput Testing

Validate Your Application’s Data Processing Capacity

Measure your solution’s ability to process high volumes of data without bottlenecks. Simulate massive data streams to identify optimal system configurations and ensure sustained performance under heavy loads.

Before testing, CENGN provides virtual machines to deploy your application. Using industry-standard test software, you’ll get support in simulating large loads of sensor messages to measure throughput, processing speed, and system efficiency.

Resource Utilization Testing

Optimize Your Solution’s Infrastructure Costs without Sacrificing Performance

Identify the optimal balance of CPU, memory, and disk resources your application needs to maintain performance while minimizing infrastructure costs.

Work with CENGN experts to simulate high processing loads while monitoring CPU, RAM, disk I/O, and network usage to identify right-sizing opportunities that reduce your infrastructure costs while maintaining performance.

Endurance (Soak) Testing

Prove Your Application Can Run 24/7 Without Failure

Ensure your application can operate under a sustained load over extended periods without performance degradation or system failures.

CENGN provides bare-metal servers for application deployment and virtual machine-based testing tools. You’ll also get access to CENGN expertise to develop test plans that simulate constant peaks over an extended period.

Monitoring CPU usage, memory leaks, and database performance to detect degradation or failures is essential to prove your solution will work as needed.

Security Performance Testing

Guarantee Your Solution’s Security Features Don’t Compromise Performance

Ensure your application’s security mechanisms aren’t limiting your performance.

Get access to testing infrastructure and CENGN specialists as they help design your security performance testing. Simulate your security features’ transactions while measuring API response times to ensure you are not compromising performance.

*All expressions of interest are welcome. Please let us know how your company can leverage our services.

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Service Details and Support

Launch your testing project quickly with CENGN’s comprehensive validation services. Access enterprise-grade architecture tailored to your specifications, combined with expert guidance to deploy and optimize your solution efficiently.

What’s Included

Infrastructure & Environment

Pre-configured application environment and network architecture tailored to your project needs
Secure, multi-tenant architecture with guaranteed data isolation
Data infrastructure located within Canada to comply with data residency regulations

Expert Support & Guidance

Dedicated integration assistance to deploy your solution seamlessly
Access to CENGN’s testing consultants who provide project management, test planning, tool implementation, and execution support
Weekly progress check-ins to ensure project success
Comprehensive project wrap-up with detailed results and actionable feedback

Ongoing Project Support

Continuous infrastructure monitoring and support throughout your project lifecycle
Cost-effective access to enterprise-level testing scenarios

What Other Startups and Scaleups Have to Say About CENGN’s Performance Testing Services

Previous Case Studies

Get the Funding You Need for Your Project

CENGN’s Living Lab initiative provides access to funding through two streams:

Innovation Projects

Startups and scaleups test and validate their solutions for market entry and commercial growth.

Up to $250,000 in funding available.

Adoption Projects

Startups and scaleups partner with a prospective customer to validate their innovative solutions for the customer’s specific requirements.

Up to $500,000 in funding available.

Learn More about the CENGN Living Lab Initiative

Get Expert IP Guidance for Your Project 

Need IP Support for Your Project? 

Through CENGN’s partnership with New Ventures BC and Innovate BC, startups and scaleups running a CENGN project can access expert IP education and mentorship services.

You’ll get help choosing the right protection strategy for your technology, whether that means patents, trade secrets, trademarks, careful use of open source, or a combination that fits your business goals. 

Reach out to [email protected] with any questions. 

Take on a Specialized CENGN Intern

Need Extra Support for Your Project?

Accelerate your project by accessing specialized talent through the CENGN Living Lab Internship Program.

Whether you need support before, during, or after your organization’s living lab project, CENGN’s internship program connects you with the critical technology and/or business skills to stay competitive.

Need help? CENGN can direct you to suitable funding agencies that can subsidize your internship costs. CENGN can also support you, from paperwork to student matching.

Learn More about Living Lab Internships

Does your company qualify for a CENGN Project?

✅ Based in Canada, with fewer than 500 employees

✅ Technology level must be TRL 4 and above

About CENGN

Currently supported by the Canadian Government’s Strategic Response Fund (SRF), Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) helps startups and scaleups bring their solutions to market. CENGN provides the resources and technical expertise to test and validate their innovative solutions while developing tech talent through its internship programs.

Since 2014, CENGN’s programs have created nearly 12,000 Canadian jobs, contributed $1.15 billion to Canada’s GDP, supported over 300 internships with a 97% employment rate, and completed over 230 commercialization projects to build Canada’s position and expertise in the global technology landscape.

Learn More About the Current Living Lab Initiative

Contact

Do you have a question about this Living Lab or the CENGN Living Lab Initiative?

CENGN’s Business Development Team oversees the Living Labs and supports innovative organizations in testing, validating, and scaling their technology solutions.

For questions about partnership opportunities or program applications, please contact the Business Development Team at [email protected].

CENGN Performance Testing Services

Prepare your solution for market entry and scale with CENGN Performance Testing Services

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