While plenty of commercial test solutions exist on the market to address complex telecom protocols, these solutions are used to implement proprietary test solutions and are in all cases very expensive (e.g. more than 2 millions euros for a GSM test system).  All the important experience in telecom testing products has however forced organisations such as industrial fora (ATM forum, Bluetooth SIG, etc) or standards organisations (i.e. ETSI, 3GPP) to work on optimised test methodologies and also process optimisation approaches to cope with heavy workloads over the past years to build the single market.

The GO4IT project has provided a generic low cost test environment and associated test services, together with free of charge executable test suites, targeting IPv6 focused protocol testing. The GO4IT project hasl permited to capitalize on large European investments made in infrastructures by giving the tools to all user communities to test IPv6 protocol based solutions thus increasing their trust and confidence in new generation infrastructures.