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Ensuring Policy Management and QoE in Wireless Networks
This webinar explores the role of intelligent policy management at the heart of LTE and the Evolved Packet Core (EPC). It describes the 3GPP architects' vision for an end-to-end, multi-vendor Policy and Charging Control framework and why that framework is mission-critical for service monetization. Lastly, it discusses techniques that operators can use to validate their policy management framework when building the best performing network – a network that provides high customer QoE while still maintaining a healthy bottom line. This webinar discusses:- Growth in mobile data and smart device adoption
- The increasing importance of policy management to avoid network congestion and provide high service quality
- The 3GPP's vision for a Policy and Charging Control framework
- The role of LTE service quality validation using mobile subscriber modeling and QoE metrics in validating end-to-end policy management systems
- Market drivers and industry projections for 100 GE
- Challenges facing 100 GE deployment
- Network and equipment requirements for 100 GE in metro, service edge and core networks
- Validating 100 GE for service quality and scalability
- Open Q&A session
- The latest trends in data center technology, e.g. Data Center Bridging (DCB), Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and higher speed Ethernet.
- Projections for future growth and development
- Challenges for manufacturers of data center switches and operators of large enterprise data centers
- Methodologies for pre-deployment testing of data center components to ensure performance and reliability
- Real life examples of the challenges overcome by leading storage switch vendor Brocade.
- Open Q&A session where we'll welcome your questions
- Data plane scale and performance testing using Q-in-Q and PBB-TE
- Link OAM and service OAM testing
- Resiliency testing (using STP, PBB-TE, and other emerging solutions such as G.8031 and TRILL)
- MEF Certification testing (validating standards such as MEF 9, 14, and the new UNI type 2 MEF 21, 24, and 25)
- Synchronization testing as required for mobile backhaul (using 1588v2 and SyncE)
- 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
- 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!
- Core networks
- Aggregation applications in data centers
- Internet exchanges
- Service provider peering points
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Measuring the effectiveness of policy control (01:01:49) - August, 2010
This webinar explores the role of intelligent policy management at the heart of LTE and the Evolved Packet Core (EPC). It describes the 3GPP architects’ vision for an end-to-end, multi-vendor Policy and Charging Control framework and why that framework is mission-critical for service monetization. Lastly, it discusses techniques that operators can use to validate their policy management framework when building the best performing network – a network that provides high customer QoE while still maintaining a healthy bottom line.
Testing Service Quality at 100 Gbps
In June of 2010, Isocore conducted an independent wire-speed 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) test of an Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router using Ixia's K2 100 GE test system. The objective of this test was to determine whether an IP service router could demonstrate quality of service for mixed IP services at 100G line-rate. Tune into this webinar to find out whether Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 stood up to the test.
Experts from Isocore, Alcatel-Lucent and Ixia share their experiences working with service providers evaluating 100 GE for broad deployment. They cover key network and product requirements and the major milestones that make the 100GE-enabled network a reality - deployable not only in the core but also in the metro and service edge, where services meet the network. The webinar also covers the test methodologies employed for benchmarking key performance metrics for multi-service traffic prioritization and forwarding for high-scale VPNs over a 100 GE network.
The webinar will cover:
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Ground-breaking test of service quality at 100 Gbps (46:43:00) - August, 2010
In June of 2010, Isocore conducted an independent wire-speed 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) test of an Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router using Ixia's K2 100 GE test system. The objective of this test was to determine whether an IP service router could demonstrate quality of service for mixed IP services at 100G line-rate. View this webinar to find out whether Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 stood up to the test.
Converged Fabric Testing: Managing Increased Complexity Without Increased Budget
Join this technology webinar to hear from storage networking experts Ixia, IT Brand Pulse and Brocade on the evolution of the converged data center and the resulting challenges for equipment manufacturers and data center operators. Data center switch consolidation offers cost-saving opportunities for network operators, but the rapid pace of change increases risks for the unprepared. Are you confident that your testing strategy covers all the bases?
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Converged data center trends, technologies and testing methodologies (00:42:41) - June, 2010
Hear from storage networking experts Ixia, IT Brand Pulse and Brocade on the evolution of the converged data center and the resulting challenges for equipment manufacturers and data center operators. Data center switch consolidation offers cost-saving opportunities for network operators, but the rapid pace of change increases risks for the unprepared. Are you confident that your testing strategy covers all the bases?
IP-Ethernet Mobile Backhaul: Preparing for LTE
LTE might be the answer to the prayers of mobile subscribers and their growing demands for data and video traffic, but the backhaul network must be ready to keep pace. What challenges does this create for network operators and manufacturers of network equipment? How will they deliver all-packet backhaul with carrier-grade reliability and resiliency?
In the webinar videos below, you’ll hear from the experts as they discuss the challenges of mobile backhaul. Michael Howard, Co-founder of Infonetics Research, will offer his insights into mobile backhaul market trends, projections for continued growth, and the strategies of the key players in the game. Michael Haugh, Senior Product Manager at Ixia, will discuss the testing challenges associated with developing mobile backhaul infrastructure and ensuring quality service for every subscriber.
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Testing Challenges Associated with Mobile Backhaul (00:22:15) - May, 2010
Join Mike Haugh, Senior product Line Manager at Ixia, as he identifies the challenges in testing backhaul networks and ensuring they are prepared to meet the needs of wireless broadband subscribers into the future.
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Insights and Trends in the Mobile Backhaul Industry (00:16:30) - May, 2010
Join Michael Howard, Co-Founder and Principal Analyst for Carrier and Data Center Networks, Infonetics Research, as he makes the case for Ethernet backhaul based on increasing bandwidth requirements driven by the proliferation of wireless broadband.
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Live Q&A with Michael Howard and Mike Haugh (00:20:19) - May, 2010
Join Michael Howard and Mike Haugh as they respond to audience questions during the live Q&A session.
Flash-Forward to the Future of Adobe Flash Deployment and Testing
Streaming video demand is growing dramatically: the average online viewer consumed 187 videos in December of 2009, up 95% over the previous year, and the average video duration grew from 3.2 to 4.1 minutes. Adobe Flash™ Player is the technology of choice for many content owners and providers, and managing the quality and performance of the video delivery networks is the key to continued business success.
In these webinar videos, Adobe and Ixia offer industry perspectives and offer advice on deploying and testing high quality streaming media devices and services.
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Motivation for the Adobe Platform (00:15:38) - April, 2010
Join Kevin Towes, Product Manager at Adobe, discusses the drivers for growing adoption of the Adobe Flash platform, and what makes the platform so accessible for entertainment and business applications alike.
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Adobe Flash Video Test Methodologies (00:14:23) - April, 2010
Join Dave Schneider, Senior Product Evangelist at Ixia, as he discusses test methodologies for ensuring reliable streaming media delivery.
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Testing Flash Video with IxLoad (00:05:22) - April, 2010
Join Taran Singh, Product Manager at Ixia, as he walks through a demonstration of Ixia’s emulation of Adobe Flash clients access an Adobe Flash Server.
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Live Q&A with Kevin, Dave and Taran (00:12:19) - April, 2010
Join Kevin, Dave and Taran as they respond to audience questions during the live Q&A session.
Carrier Ethernet Performance and Interoperability: A Tester's Guide
Starting out in the LAN environment, Ethernet has continuously migrated to larger networks. It only makes sense that Ethernet would one day land squarely in the carrier space. Ethernet's cost-per-bit is just too tempting for carriers to ignore; however, carriers cannot simply ditch their legacy TDM networks for Ethernet. They need to retain their carrier-grade quality service levels. But because Ethernet grew out of the LAN environment, it wasn't designed to provide carrier-grade service levels.
The solution to this problem lies in modifying the Ethernet standards so that it can provide carrier-grade service. The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) was created to help accomplish this goal. Working with the IEEE and ITU-T, the MEF was able to help fill the gaps in the Ethernet standard to make it possible for carriers to provide native Ethernet services with carrier-grade quality. Of course, this new concept of "Carrier Ethernet" opens up a whole new area for conducting performance and conformance measurements.
The series of videos in this webinar identifies five key areas for testing Carrier Ethernet:
Additionally, this webinar reviews some recent testing activity at EANTC, where a number of carriers tested their ability to establish Carrier Ethernet peering relationships with each other. The results of this External Network-Network Interface (ENNI) test were publicized at MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2010.
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Carrier Ethernet Testing Strategies (00:37:41) - March, 2010
Join Michael Haugh, Senior Product Manager at Ixia, as he discusses strategies for testing Carrier Ethernet conformance, performance, resiliency and synchronization.
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EANTC Carrier Ethernet ENNI Testing (00:13:00) - March, 2010
Join Carsten Rossenhoevel, Managing Director at EANTC, as he discusses the implications of the MEF's new External Network-Network Interface (ENNI) standards and the progress of the Carrier Ethernet Global Interconnect initiative to test the readiness of leading service providers to interconnect their Carrier Ethernet services.
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Q&A From the Carrier Ethernet Webinar (00:19:14) - March, 2010
Join Michael Haugh and Carsten Rossenhoevel as they answer audience questions during the live Q&A session.
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IxNetwork features and functions.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Q & A From the Virtualization Webinar (00:17:08) - August, 2009
Alessandro Perilli and Eric Wenger answer audience questions.
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.
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Q&A From the Webinar (00:18:03) - June, 2009
Carsten Rossenhoevel and Pierre Lynch answer audience questions
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:
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.
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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.
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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.
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Q & A (00:04:40) - May, 2009
Christian Johannessen of Telenor and Dave Burns of Ixia answer questions from the audience.
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.
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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
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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
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Q & A (00:14:42) - May, 2009
Chakra Devalla and Mihai Puchiu answer questions from the audience.
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
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.
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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.
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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.
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Q & A From the Webinar - International Version (00:13:47) - August, 2009
John D'Ambrosia, Charles Seifert and Thananya Baldwin answer audience questions.
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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.
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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
K2Test Solution.
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Q & A From the Webinar (00:13:47) - April, 2009
John D'Ambrosia, Charles Seifert and Thananya Baldwin answer audience questions.
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
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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.
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Security Webinar Q&A (00:17:45) - March, 2009
Ari Takanen and Aniket Khosla answer audience questions.
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Fuzzing Test Demonstration (00:23:11) - March, 2009
A live demonstration of how “negative conformance testing” using fuzzing technology can crash a popular router.
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