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IMS Testing

Ixia's IMS test solutions offer the protocol breadth, stack depth, and traffic/signaling capacity required to stress and verify IMS network elements. Test cases and configurations may be constructed for any of the four primary IMS functional areas: access network, core network, interworking elements, and application servers. Key test scenarios include:

Standard call generation
Function test suite creation
Negative testing
Handover scenarios
Load and capacity testing
Application signaling and bearer traffic

Extensive protocol support is included to test all key IMS areas, including authentication, call session control, security, charging, and quality of service. Complex lower layer protocol analysis, essential for IMS testing, is likewise supported. PESQ support is provided for voice analysis. Ixia's multi-user, multi-protocol, multi-technology platform facilitates simultaneous testing of mobile users, application servers and their services, and the PSTN. High performance load testing is easily accomplished.

Our SSX devices allow operators to manage the growing capacity challenges of today’s 3G networks, while ensuring a smooth transition to the rigorous 4G/LTE environment. Handling GTP at scale is not only necessary for key 3G core elements, but for new data offload applications as well, and GTP will remain integral to LTE deployments. Ixia has been a good partner for Stoke, working jointly to push the performance envelope of mobile network test equipment. Ixia’s IxNetwork test solution enables us to validate our ability to reliably process GTP for mobile data offload deployments today, while paving the way for expanding the SSX’s role in LTE’s evolved packet core tomorrow.

David Arnold, Vice President of Engineering, Stoke

"Ixia is an established leader for testing performance for IP communications, which forms the basis of IMS. We're very happy to have Ixia participate in our first Plugfest and look forward to working with the company on future IMS Forum events."

Michael Khalilian, Chairman and President of IMS Forum, CTO of Pervasip Corp

Library

Datasheets

IxCatapult IMS
IxCatapult LTE
IxCatapult Chassis
IxCatapult LTE eNode B Wraparound Testing (87.22 KB )
IxCatapult High-Capacity LTE UE Simulation (163.37 KB )
IxCatapult LTE Core Network Testing (159.94 KB )
IxCatapult AAA Testing (115.05 KB )
IxCatapult Femtocell Testing (109.11 KB )
IxCatapult Testbench (144.08 KB )

Brochures

Ixia Testing Solutions (10.07 MB ) - discusses Ixia's testing solutions for switching and routing, Triple Play delivery, IMS, data center operations, Carrier Ethernet, network assessment, and broadband access performance and conformance.
Wireless Network Testing (3.13 MB )
IPTV over IMS (637.15 KB )

White Papers

Wireless Network Testing (1.06 MB ) - A study on the evolution of wireless networking technology and strategies for testing LTE, IMS, EPC and UMTS network components and services.
Single Carrier FDMA in LTE (1.05 MB ) - A deep-dive into SC-FDMA technology
eNode B Wraparound Testing (1.07 MB ) - A discussion of the need to stress every interface of the eNode B, along with suggested eNode B test methodologies.
IPTV over IMS Testing - Addressing IPTV/IMS Challenges for Quad-Play Services
Developing a Holistic Testing Strategy for Ensuring a Successful IPTV Deployment (775.6 KB )

Solution

LTE eNode B Testing - supports the LTE air interface and performs radio resource management. Also includes testing for Serving Gateway (SGW), Mobility Management Entity (MIME), and Packet Data Network Gateway (PDN-GW).
3G UMTS Radio Access Network Testing - includes HSPA testing, Packet Data testing, protocol analysis and node validation
3GPP Wireless Core Network Testing - permits highly scalable and flexible testing of the GGSN and the Evolved Packet Core
Testing IPTV over IMS

News and Press

Events

June 15-18, 2010
Focus: Design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services
Venue: JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square
Location: San Francisco, CA
Additional information:Ixia is a silver patron sponsor for the event.

Press Releases

February 1, 2010 - Ixia to Demonstrate Unique End-to-End Subscriber Modeling for LTE Triple-play Testing at Mobile World Congress
Calabasas, CA February 1, 2010 –Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), the leading, global providers of converged IP network test solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate testing of LTE nodes and networks from the wireless edge to Internet c...