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3G UMTS Radio Access Network Testing

Ixia offers a complete UMTS functional and load testing portfolio using high speed downlink/uplink packet access (HSDPA/HSUPA). Full protocol stack testing of the lub interface with HSDPA and HSUPA is available for functional verification, with additional flexibility for lower layer protocol analysis. Ixia test systems deliver the industry’s highest load test capacity systems, enhanced with advanced traffic generators that effectively stress and verify UMTS terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) and core network components. The network components that can be tested include the node B, UE, radio network controller (RNC), and GPRS support nodes.

Ixia UMTS testing supports:

OC-3/OC-12 physical interfaces for maximum system aggregated throughput.
HSDPA/HSUPA data rates up to 14.3/5.7 Mbps.
Large-scale UE simultaneous emulation.
User and control plane data generation and validation.

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

Library

Datasheets

IxCatapult UMTS
IxCatapult Chassis
High Speed Downlink/Uplink Packet Access (HSDPA/HSUPA) (141.89 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 )

White Papers

Wireless Network Testing (1.06 MB )

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).
IMS Testing - performs network simulation, network validation, node validation and gateway testing.
3GPP Wireless Core Network Testing - permits highly scalable and flexible testing on gateway GPRS support nodes (GGSNs)

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...
September 7, 2009 - Combined Ixia and Catapult Communication Solution
Calabasas, CA. September 7, 2009 – Ixia today announced an innovative combination of wireless and wireline test tools. In June 2009, Ixia acquired Catapult Communications with its suite of platforms for testing wireless edge and core networ...