Technica Research and Development Lab

Technica Labs, located in Dulles, Virginia, is a dedicated space designed to simulate, test, and diagnose the interactions between different systems or components under controlled conditions, ensuring smooth integration and functionality.

The lab is designed to support government agencies and enterprise system integrators by focusing on the development, testing, and refinement of cutting-edge solutions prior to their real-world deployment. Its primary goal is to verify that separate systems or components can work together seamlessly as a whole, identifying potential issues early in the development process. This comprehensive approach allows the lab to serve as a crucial testing ground for complex integrated systems, ensuring that potential problems are discovered and addressed before implementation. By providing a controlled environment for thorough testing and validation, the lab plays a vital role in enhancing the reliability and effectiveness of advanced technological solutions for both government and enterprise applications. Through its emphasis on system integration and early problem detection, the lab contributes significantly to the successful deployment of innovative technologies in real-world scenarios.

Controlled Environment:

Technica Lab provides a controlled environment where various scenarios—ranging from normal operations to abnormal, degraded, and emergency situations—can be simulated to test a system’s performance and robustness. Operating with a vendor-neutral approach, the lab ensures that technology decisions are guided solely by customer needs, avoiding conflicts of interest during the evaluation process. With flexible configurations that accommodate a wide range of customer integration scenarios, Technica Lab enables tailored proof-of-concept testing to validate the feasibility and performance of diverse technologies, ensuring reliable and customer-focused solutions.

Testing Scenarios:

Pre-Deployment and Equipment Staging

Pre-deployment testing of network architecture and solutions ensures device interoperability and validates configuration guidelines. This thorough testing prevents costly downtime and mitigates risks, keeping deployments on schedule.

Technica Labs’ pre-deployment services provide exceptional value to our customers by fully vetting complex systems prior to deployment, preventing delays typically associated with unforeseen obstacles. Our pre-deployment testing is performed by experienced Systems Integrators, Network Engineers, and System Engineers who are familiar with large networks, such as those deployed by the Government, maximizing the success of implementing the customer’s solution.

Interoperability Testing

Technica Labs’ diverse product suite and relationships with many leading hardware vendors enable our customers to test for compatibility with protocol standards and each manufacturer’s unique approach to standards compliance, ensuring seamless product interoperability when connecting to third-party applications and devices.

Technica specializes in testing a wide range of hardware and software products across a variety of virtual and physical platforms. This includes virtualization platforms such as ESX, KVM, and HyperV; operating systems including Windows Server, RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Solaris, and BSD; and network operating systems such as Junos, IOS, and PAN-OS.

Change Management Planning

Availability is a cornerstone of modern network environments. Even simple changes—such as operating system upgrades and patching, updating ACLs, changing user policies, or performing routine maintenance—can have unforeseen consequences. These seemingly minor modifications have the potential to lengthen outage windows, affect Service Level Agreements, and cost valuable time and money.

Change Management Planning allows our customers to simulate all proposed changes in Technica Labs’ controlled environment before implementation into production infrastructure. This approach enables the discovery of unforeseen architectural limits, determines how many users may be impacted by changes, and identifies optimal configurations—all without risking critical uptime.

Custom Testing

Technica Labs also offers the capability to accommodate Custom Testing requirements. By combining our base testing services with a customer’s special requirements, Technica Labs can design a custom testing program to meet each individual customer’s unique needs. Technica Labs assures comprehensive testing solutions tailored to specific customer requirements.