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40/100 Gigabit Ethernet - Arriving Soon Learn about the current 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s standardization efforts in the IEEE P802.3ba Task Force from John D'Ambrosia, chairman of the task force. This session will address the need for two new Ethernet rates (40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s) as well as the proposals for achieving different distance objectives for each. The webinar also features a live demonstration of 100Gbps IP traffic generation and analysis.

DPI for P2P Control and Traffic Shaping In this webinar, EANTC Managing Director Carsten Rossenhoevel and Ixia Product Manager Pierre Lynch discuss how application-aware DPI devices are used to detect P2P traffic as it traverses the network, and police it so as to prevent over-consumption of network bandwidth. EANTC has recently completed an independent performance evaluation of three major manufacturers' (Cisco, Ipoque and Procera Networks) solutions for carrier grade peer-to-peer filtering using Ixia equipment, and Carsten's presentation includes insights as to the results of this evaluation.

IxNetwork A discussion of Ixia's IxNetwork layer 2-3 test application.

Network Security Testing The only way to guard against software vulnerability attacks, and the downtime and brand damage that results, is to preemptively test the robustness of your network devices. View our Network Security Testing webinar to hear how the top security vendors are protecting against malicious attacks, and to see examples of the consequences of these attacks for commonly used network components.

Service Provider QoE: Guaranteeing Customer Quality of Experience An illustration of the benefits of IP service verification, including SLA assurance and remote troubleshooting. The webinar features a case study on Telenor, the ninth largest operator in the world.

Testing the Cloud: Optimizing Virtualized Data Center Performance Virtualization technology provides many benefits, including server consolidation, simplification of server management and a “greener” environment. With all its advantages, however, virtualization technology presents many challenges. This webinar will identify some of the latest trends in virtualization and how that translates into challenges in design and test. Alessandro Perilli, independent analyst and founder of virtualization.info, will identify the major trends along with their advantages and challenges. Eric Wenger, Product Manager at Ixia, will discuss testing virtual resources and networks.

VoIP in a UC Environment: Guaranteeing Voice Quality A discussion of the challenges of deploying VoIP in a UC environmentC, and methodologies for ensuring SIP performance, features, and interoperability using realistic UC traffic profiles.

40/100 Gigabit Ethernet - Arriving Soon

How long would it take to download the 22 Blu-Ray HD movies of the James Bond 007 Collection? Most residential connections would require 3 days

• At 1 Gb/s, it would take 1 hour and 15 minutes
• At 10 Gb/s, it would arrive in 7 minutes and 30 seconds
• At 100 Gb/s, the videos would have arrived before your popcorn was popped - 45 seconds!

Although it will still be a few years before 100 Gb/s links will come anywhere near the home, a number of places in the Internet are hitting capacity, complexity and energy barriers with 10 Gb/s links, including:

• Core networks
• Aggregation applications in data centers
• Internet exchanges
• Service provider peering points

Learn about the current 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s standardization efforts in the IEEE P802.3ba Task Force from John D'Ambrosia, chairman of the task force. This session will address the need for two new Ethernet rates (40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s) as well as the proposals for achieving different distance objectives for each.

You'll also see a demonstration of 100 Gb/s in action – with Ixia's 100 Gb/s test solution. Charles Seifert, senior product manager, will discuss the unique PCS lane technology referenced in the proposed standards, and will investigate its implications for testing.

	40/100 GE Standardization Efforts - International Version  (00:18:55) - August, 2009 John D'Ambrosia, chair of the IEEE P802.3ba Higher Speed Ethernet committee discusses the state of 40/100 GE technology and standardization efforts. [ click here for more info ]
	PCS Lane Technology and Demonstration - International Version  (00:16:03) - August, 2009 Charles Seifert and Thananya Baldwin of Ixia give an overview of PCS Lane technology for 100GE transmission, with a live demonstration of 100GE traffic generation and analysis using Ixia's "K2" Test Solution. [ click here for more info ]
	Q & A From the Webinar - International Version  (00:13:47) - August, 2009 John D'Ambrosia, Charles Seifert and Thananya Baldwin answer audience questions. [ click here for more info ]
	40/100 GE Standardization Efforts  (00:18:55) - April, 2009 John D'Ambrosia, chair of the IEEE P802.3ba Higher Speed Ethernet committee discusses the state of 40/100 GE technology and standardization efforts. [ click here for more info ]
	PCS Lane Technology and Demonstration  (00:16:03) - April, 2009 Charles Seifert and Thananya Baldwin of Ixia give an overview of PCS Lane technology for 100GE transmission, with a live demonstration of 100GE traffic generation and analysis using Ixia's K2 Test Solution. [ click here for more info ]
	Q & A From the Webinar  (00:13:47) - April, 2009 John D'Ambrosia, Charles Seifert and Thananya Baldwin answer audience questions. [ click here for more info ]

DPI for P2P Control and Traffic Shaping

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is one of the most sophisticated tools for controlling and securing enterprise and ISP networks. What is DPI, and what are the challenges in producing DPI-compliant products?

Many traffic types, such as peer-to-peer (P2P) consume network resources without creating additional revenue. The latest estimates suggest that over 70 percent of broadband bandwidth is occupied with music, game, and video downloads. Service providers need the ability to detect and control the traffic types traversing their infrastructure. DPI looks deep within packets to discover the true nature of traffic flows so as to assign them appropriate quality of service (QoS) levels in order to satisfy latency-sensitive voice and video requirements while at the same time providing satisfactory data services. DPI also provides the additional visibility needed to root out many security attacks.

In this webinar, EANTC Managing Director Carsten Rossenhoevel and Ixia Product Manager Pierre Lynch discuss how application-aware DPI devices are used to detect P2P traffic as it traverses the network, and police it so as to prevent over-consumption of network bandwidth.

Carsten brings his knowledge of testing content filtering devices, and describes the tests that EANTC has devised to verify the functionality and performance of DPI devices with regard to P2P traffic detection and policing. EANTC has recently completed an independent performance evaluation of three major manufacturers' solutions for carrier grade peer-to-peer filtering using Ixia equipment. Carsten's presentation will include insights as to the results of this evaluation.

Pierre demonstrates how Ixia's IxLoad assists in testing DPI-designed equipment for compliance and accuracy.

	EANTC's P2P Test Results – Featuring Cisco, Procera Networks and Ipoque (English)  (00:18:08) - June, 2009 Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director of EANTC, describes the results of EANTC’s recent performance evaluation of carrier grade peer-to-peer filtering solutions from Cisco, Procera Networks and Ipoqua. (English) [ click here for more info ]
	EANTC's P2P Test Results – Featuring Cisco, Procera Networks and Ipoque (German)  (00:15:17) - June, 2009 Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director of EANTC, describes the results of EANTC’s recent performance evaluation of carrier grade peer-to-peer filtering solutions from Cisco, Procera Networks and Ipoqua. (German) [ click here for more info ]
	DPI Test Plan Recommendations (English)  (00:18:28) - June, 2009 Pierre Lynch from Ixia discusses the challenges of testing DPI-capable devices, and offers recommendations on testing methodology. (English) [ click here for more info ]
	DPI Test Plan Recommendations (German)  (00:18:32) - June, 2009 Pierre Lynch from Ixia discusses the challenges of testing DPI-capable devices, and offers recommendations on testing methodology. (German) [ click here for more info ]
	Q&A From the Webinar  (00:18:03) - June, 2009 Carsten Rossenhoevel and Pierre Lynch answer audience questions [ click here for more info ]

IxNetwork

IxNetwork features and functions.

Ixia's IxNetwork ViperCore Webinar  (00:39:10) - October, 2009 Ixia's Vic Alston and Michael Haugh discuss the release of IxNetwork 5.40 and its associated ViperCore technology, and how it provides advanced features for today's network testing environments. [ click here for more info ]

Network Security Testing

Is your IP network at risk of a security breach? The answer, of course, is yes. Firewalls can treat the symptoms, but not the root cause of the problem: software flaws in network services. These flaws allow attackers to find the cracks in the armor and cause application failures, system crashes, and information leakage. The only way to guard against these attacks, and the downtime and brand damage that results, is to preemptively test the robustness of your network devices. View our Network Security Testing webinar to hear how the top security vendors are protecting against malicious attacks, and to see examples of the consequences of these attacks for commonly used network components.

You will gain insight from our featured speaker, Ari Takanen, a Security Expert and distinguished member of the global security testing community, and author of the book Fuzzing, for Software Security Testing and Quality Assurance.

	Fuzzing Technology for Security Testing  (00:12:13) - March, 2009 Ari Takanen from Codenomicon discusses the use of fuzzing technology for security and robustness testing. [ click here for more info ]
	Security Webinar Q&A  (00:17:45) - March, 2009 Ari Takanen and Aniket Khosla answer audience questions. [ click here for more info ]
	Fuzzing Test Demonstration  (00:23:11) - March, 2009 A live demonstration of how “negative conformance testing” using fuzzing technology can crash a popular router. [ click here for more info ]

Service Provider QoE: Guaranteeing Customer Quality of Experience

Next generation networks pose unique and challenging problems for operators trying to provide high-quality and reliable multiplay services to their customers. Service providers are carefully examining their operating models and associated costs as they as they roll out new services and next generation network upgrades. How do they ensure on-going high performance delivery of end-user applications and quickly troubleshoot glitches without impacting the bottom line? How do they actively ensure their compliance to multiple business customers' unique service level agreements (SLAs)?

This webinar will tell you:

• How to measure your customers' quality of experience (QoE) for multiplay services
• How tier 1-3 support staff can resolve technical issues with remote testing
• How to integrate new services monitoring with existing OSS infrastructure

Johan Malmquist, Telenor Network Performance Engineer, discusses his company's experience implementing active IP Monitoring. He shares how they have improved their customers quality of experience by resolving issues proactively and reducing meantime to repair.

The Ixia speaker is Dave Burns, Director of Carrier Operations. Prior to joining Ixia, Dave was with Bell Canada for 27 years, where he specialized in carrier fault management and provided layer 2-7 test tools and solutions to operations help desks and test centers. He was responsible for ensuring that the test vendor capabilities provided the value-add solutions required to allow Bell Canada to proactively and reactively manage the IP triple-play arena end-to-end.

	Telenor QoE Case Study  (00:09:41) - May, 2009 Johan Malmquist of Telenor describes how IP Service Verification helps Telenor guarantee QoE for its customers and thus reduce customer churn and time-to-market for new services. [ click here for more info ]
	An Introduction to IP Service Verification   (00:27:59) - May, 2009 Dave Burns of Ixia discusses the need for monitoring network QoE and demonstrates how IxRave can be used by front line technicians to investigate quality issues. [ click here for more info ]
	Q & A  (00:04:40) - May, 2009 Christian Johannessen of Telenor and Dave Burns of Ixia answer questions from the audience. [ click here for more info ]

Testing the Cloud: Optimizing Virtualized Data Center Performance

Data center virtualization is one of the most important IT paradigm shifts of our time. By virtualizing the hardware/software interface, applications are freed from the constraints of the underlying hardware platform, and resources can be dynamically allocated as and when they are needed. Virtualized "cloud" data centers allow high-priority applications to be assigned the resources they need without wasting money on excess hardware only needed for peak times. Hardware resources - even server-grade platforms - have become a commodity that can be replaced or upgraded with no impact on mission-critical services.

These benefits, of course, come with new challenges for IT administrators - what hardware platforms perform best in a virtualized environment? How can network elements like NICs, switches and firewalls that have been virtualized in software be tested without traditional hardware-based test methodologies? How do new data center capabilities like DRS and HA perform under real-world conditions?

This webinar will address each of these questions with practical, actionable steps for optimizing virtual machine and network performance.

	Trends in the Virtualization Market  (00:24:29) - August, 2009 Alessandro Perilli discusses trends in the Virtualization Market and the major challenges facing data center operators as network demands and complexities grow. [ click here for more info ]
	Virtualized Environment Testing Challenges and Methodologies  (00:08:01) - August, 2009 Eric Wenger discusses the challenges of testing virtual resources and networks, and associated methodologies for measuring enterprise application performance across virtual machines (VMs). [ click here for more info ]
	Demo: Testing CPU Load Overhead for Network Switching  (00:03:49) - August, 2009 Eric Wenger demonstrates how IxChariot can be used to measure CPU overhead incurred by switching network traffic within a VM. [ click here for more info ]
	Q & A From the Virtualization Webinar  (00:17:08) - August, 2009 Alessandro Perilli and Eric Wenger answer audience questions. [ click here for more info ]

VoIP in a UC Environment: Guaranteeing Voice Quality

As business services converge over IP, integrating multiple applications into an end-to-end unified communications (UC) solution with guaranteed VoIP quality is a significant challenge for network equipment manufacturers, network operators and enterprise IT teams. The latency-sensitive nature of voice and video traffic makes integration, interoperability, and scale testing essential.

How does your UC network perform under high load or other traffic conditions? What interoperability challenges should you be aware of as you deploy additional services? What effect does increased data or video traffic have on voice quality? Are your QoS settings having the desired effect? How do you measure customer QoE?

This webinar will help you answer all of these questions. Chakra Devalla, VP of Operations at tekVizion Labs, will discuss the challenges of deploying UC and the resulting device interoperability issues. Mihai Puchiu, VoIP Product Manager at Ixia, will review methodologies for testing SIP performance, features, and interoperability using realistic UC traffic profiles.

	UC Interoperability Issues  (00:14:39) - May, 2009 Chakra Devalla, VP of Operations at tekVizion Labs discusses the challenges of deploying Unified Communcations and the resulting device interoperability issues [ click here for more info ]
	VoIP Quality Testing in a UC Environment  (00:13:30) - May, 2009 Mihai Puchiu discusses and demonstrates SIP testing methodologies using real world UC traffic profiles [ click here for more info ]
	Q & A  (00:14:42) - May, 2009 Chakra Devalla and Mihai Puchiu answer questions from the audience. [ click here for more info ]

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