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Company BackgrounderOverviewIxia is a leading supplier of converged network and application performance testing solutions for network equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, and government agencies. Ixia's test and simulation platforms use powerful and high performance technology to design and validate a broad range of IP and 3G/LTE networking equipment. Our solutions generate realistic, media-rich traffic to stress routers, switches, and converged network appliances. Ixia provides the most comprehensive solution for testing converged IP services from the wireless edge to the Internet core.Key Statistics
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Customer Focus
Ixia's award-winning, integrated platform is used worldwide by:- Network equipment manufacturers to assess performance and compliance
- Service providers to validate network equipment and service delivery
- Enterprises and government agencies to confirm that equipment performs to specification
Solutions
Ixia's test solutions cover the range of technologies used in today's modern networks, including wired and wireless networking, routing and switching, Carrier Ethernet, broadband, multiplay delivery, IPTV, VoIP and a range of data networking and security protocols.Wireless Testing
With Ixia's acquisition of Catapult Communications in June, 2009, Ixia covers testing of wired and wireless networks from the wireless edge to the Internet core. IxCatapult performs complete testing of 3G and LTE nodes. IxLoad adds large scale multiplay data testing for newer high-bandwidth wireless technologies.Router Testing
Ixia's IxNetwork and IxN2X test and verify the performance of core, edge, and customer premise routers and layer 3 switches using large-scale protocol emulations and high traffic load generation. Protocols supported include IGPs (OSPF, IS-IS, RIP), BGP, MPLS (including layer 2 and 3 VPNs) and IP multicast.Ixia's IxAutomate tests IP routing devices and systems in an automated fashion. Predefined test suites execute performance and functionality testing on the control and data planes. Tests include route capacity, route convergence, session scalability, tunnel scalability and data plane performance.
Layer 2-3 Security Testing
Ixia's IxDefend tests the security, vulnerability and resilience of all types of network applications. IxDefend tests cover a range of layer 2-3 protocols using a technique known as intelligent fuzzing, which finds and exposes unknown vulnerabilities.Ixia's IxNetwork tests devices support 802.1x authentication by highly scalable emulation of 802.1x clients (supplicants). Authentication modes supported include MD5, TLS, TTLS, PEAP and NAC.
Switch Testing
Ixia's IxNetwork and IxN2X test layer 2/3 switches and forwarding devices by generating traffic load across a mesh of interfaces, and then measuring results down to a per-flow basis. Protocols supported include spanning tree, multicast and IP routing.Ixia's IxAutomate tests layer 2/3 switches in an automated fashion. Predefined test suites execute performance and functionality tests. Tests include data plane performance, QoS functionality, address cache tests, error filtering and VLAN functionality.
Ixia's IxExplorer tests layer 2/3 switches and forwarding devices by generating traffic loads with very granular packet parameter controls, and then providing detailed results analysis. Measurements include throughput, latency, inter-arrival time, data integrity and sequence checking.
Broadband Testing
Ixia's IxLoad, IxNetwork and IxN2X test broadband aggregation devices − including B-RAS, DSLAMs, CMTSs, and edge routers − by emulating millions of broadband clients and generating traffic load over those connections. Protocol support includes PPPoE, PPPoA, L2TPv2 and L2TPv3.Multiplay Device Testing
Ixia's IxLoad tests all types of devices and networks that handle and forward voice, video and data traffic, including peer-to-peer, web, FTP, e-mail and custom protocols. IxLoad's unique subscriber modeling can create multiple user communities with different patterns of usage – lending realism to device and network testing. Ixia's unrivaled platform scale can pre-test any network with realistic, full-scale traffic.Video Testing
Ixia's IxLoad tests the performance of video servers, multicast routers, and the video delivery network by emulating video servers and millions of video subscribers, using video on demand and broadcast video scenarios. Protocols supported include MPEG, IGMP, MLD and RTSP. Ixia measures transmission quality using MDI, and perceptual video quality using TVQM.Voice Testing
Ixia's IxLoad tests the functionality of VoIP devices and services using emulated end devices and servers. Testing areas supported include SIP, SCCP (Skinny), H.323, MGCP, and H.248 (MEGACO). IxLoad emulates thousands of SIP callers and callees in performance testing scenarios. IxLoad emulates Class 5 features at great scale, provides PESQ quality scores in real-time, and tests multiple call scenarios while maintaining the highest density test environment.Content-Aware Device Testing
Ixia's IxLoad tests the performance of content-aware networks and devices, including deep packet inspection (DPI) devices, server load balancers (SLB), firewalls, web servers and mail servers. IxLoad can emulate millions of clients and a variety of servers in realistic performance testing scenarios. Protocols supported include TCP, HTTP, SSL, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, RTP, RTSP, Telnet, DNS, LDAP, DHCP, SIP, MPEG, and IGMP, as well as distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.Ixia's IxLoad emulates true application traffic by using fully stateful traffic − a distinction from other traffic generators that only replay captured traffic. IxLoad uses P2P (BitTorrent, eDonkey), PPPoE, SSL, RADIUS, and WAP to thoroughly test device capabilities.
Layer 4-7 Security Testing
Ixia's IxLoad tests the performance of layer 4-7 security devices, including firewalls, SSL gateways, virus scanners, spam filters, and intrusion detection systems (IDSs). IxLoad emulates clients and servers, several layer 4-7 protocols and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Key capabilities include mixing valid user traffic with malicious traffic, and attaching viruses to emails.IxLoad tests and verifies the performance of IPSec VPN gateways and systems by establishing and authenticating IPSec tunnels, and then generating traffic loads over the tunnels. IxVPN supports site-to-site and remote access VPN testing, as well as DES, 3DES and AES encryption. IxVPN also tests DMVPN-based networks − an industry first.
IxLoad tests devices support 802.1x authentication by highly scalable emulation of 802.1x clients (supplicants). Authentication modes supported include MD5, TLS, TTLS, PEAP and NAC.
Application Testing
IxLoad AppTest tests the functionality and performance of enterprise web applications under load by emulating large numbers of real users accessing applications. Technologies supported include JavaScript, XML, Java, Document Object Model (DOM), and databases (Oracle, SQL, Access).Virtualized Network Testing
The IxVM product suite is the first solution of its kind that enables data center managers to assess virtual infrastructure performance and capacity. IxVM builds on the company's industry-leading library of layer 2-7 performance test tools that discover, manage and automate testing large virtualized environments.Automated Testing
Ixia's Test Conductor is a complete automation environment that controls the sequencing and execution of tests from most Ixia test applications. It provides a complete regression environment for lights-out testing of devices and systems.Ixia's IxAutomate provides a complete automation environment for testing layer 2/3 routers, switches and similar devices. IxAutomate also includes a number of tests for content-aware devices that handle triple play traffic. A set of predefined test suites can execute performance and functionality tests. Both predefined and custom developed tests can be scheduled for execution, and they can include configuration commands for the device under test.
Enterprise Performance Measurement and Troubleshooting
Ixia's IxChariot tests the video transport network by emulating video traffic, and measuring end-to-end video quality. Measurements include throughput, latency, jitter, and media delivery index (MDI). Voice transport network are tested by emulating voice traffic and measuring end-to-end voice quality. Measurements include throughput, latency, jitter, and mean opinion score (MOS). IxChariot tests the broadband access transport network by emulating application traffic – whether data, voice, or video – and measuring end-to-end performance and quality. Measurements include throughput, latency, jitter, mean opinion score (MOS) and media delivery index (MDI).Live Network Monitoring
IxRave's patent-pending architecture features a combination of software, inexpensive hardware test points and Ixia test chassis to achieve full network coverage on a carrier-grade scale. Millions of subscribers are efficiently covered without special-purpose hardware at each network node, DSLAM or customer location.IxRave supports end-to-end proactive performance monitoring for carriers, MSOs and large enterprise networks. IxRave also supports network fault isolation. A single system can support both business and consumer multiplay services.
Competitive Differentiators
- 100% Focused on developing IP Test Systems
- Continuous Innovation by integrating new technologies on a single platform
- Customer Responsiveness achieved by an unparalleled pace of product development and high quality support.
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