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	Webinar: Making Wi-Fi "Carrier Grade" to Support Cellular Offload As mobile operators seek to offload data traffic from their congested cellular networks, they turn to Wi-Fi networks to pick up the slack. Most Wi-Fi implementations, however, are not prepared to meet the same level of quality that consumers have come to expect from their providers. Wi-Fi must therefore evolve to "Carrier Grade" quality to support the offload process. This webinar video focuses on the key considerations as Wi-Fi transitions to meet the requirements of cellular offload.

	MPLS-TP Reality Check: Drivers, Development, and Deployment As demand for multimedia services over IP networks skyrockets, so does the demand for carrier-class packet transport networks. MPLS Transport Profile, or MPLS-TP, brings the resiliency of the circuit-switched transport networks into the packet-switched world. The promise of resiliency and OAM for packet-switched networks is attracting plenty of attention and investment from service providers, as they migrate from their existing SONET/SDH infrastructures. This webinar explores the drivers for MPLS-TP adoption, covers progress on the standards development, and investigates the deployment challenges.

	Ensuring Digital Video Quality With the dawn of the multi-screen video era, digital video quality has emerged as a more pressing issue than ever. As pay-TV providers scramble to compete by expanding to multiple screens, they risk even greater public exposure to any lingering video and audio glitches on their networks. As a result, MSOs are seeking more advanced video monitoring and testing tools to ensure that their signals are sound. They’re also looking for new ways to gauge customer satisfaction with their digital video services. In this webinar, we will look at the new tools and techniques that are available, as well as the new industry tech standards that attempt to address this problem.

	MPLS-TP: The Next Evolution of Your Network This webinar provides an overview of MPLS-TP technology, discusses associated test scenarios and challenges, and shares experiences from recent MPLS-TP interoperability test events. It also reviews the issues and test plans surrounding MPLS-TP deployment, including interoperability, OAM, APS, MS-PW and MPLS/MPLS-TP internetworking.

	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.

	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.

	IxChariot This IxChariot webinar gives new users a quick introduction to IxChariot, and answers questions about using IxChariot to assess network performance under a variety of scenarios.

Webinar: Making Wi-Fi "Carrier Grade" to Support Cellular Offload

Webinar: Making Wi-Fi "Carrier Grade" to Support Cellular Offload  (01:00:12) - January, 2012 As mobile operators seek to offload data traffic from their congested cellular networks, they turn to Wi-Fi networks to pick up the slack. Most Wi-Fi implementations, however, are not prepared to meet the same level of quality that consumers have come to expect from their providers. Wi-Fi must therefore evolve to "Carrier Grade" quality to support the offload process. This webinar video focuses on the key considerations as Wi-Fi transitions to meet the requirements of cellular offload. [ click here for more info ]

MPLS-TP Reality Check: Drivers, Development, and Deployment

MPLS-TP Reality Check: Drivers, Development, and Deployment  (01:13:31) - April, 2011 As demand for multimedia services over IP networks skyrockets, so does the demand for carrier-class packet transport networks. MPLS Transport Profile, or MPLS-TP, brings the resiliency of the circuit-switched transport networks into the packet-switched world. The promise of resiliency and OAM for packet-switched networks is attracting plenty of attention and investment from service providers, as they migrate from their existing SONET/SDH infrastructures. This webinar explores the drivers for MPLS-TP adoption, covers progress on the standards development, and investigates the deployment challenges. Industry experts from Cisco, Verizon, and Ixia give advice on the best way to roll-out MPLS-TP without risking service quality or unnecessary expense – including the required infrastructure upgrades and the pre-deployment testing. This webinar will help answer: What problems does MPLS-TP solve for service providers? Where is MPLS-TP at in the standardization process? What are the challenges and in turn best practices when it comes to deployment? Have vendor interoperability issues been addressed? How can I ensure end-user quality of experience throughout the upgrade process? [ click here for more info ]

Ensuring Digital Video Quality

Ensuring Digital Video Quality Webinar  (01:03:10) - March, 2011 With the dawn of the multi-screen video era, digital video quality has emerged as a more pressing issue than ever. As pay-TV providers scramble to compete by expanding to multiple screens, they risk even greater public exposure to any lingering video and audio glitches on their networks. As a result, MSOs are seeking more advanced video monitoring and testing tools to ensure that their signals are sound. They're also looking for new ways to gauge customer satisfaction with their digital video services. In this webinar, we will look at the new tools and techniques that are available, as well as the new industry tech standards that attempt to address this problem. [ click here for more info ]

MPLS-TP: The Next Evolution of Your Network

As the IETF and ITU continue to develop the MPLS-Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) protocol, end-to-end MPLS deployments will become increasingly affordable and help to streamline operational models by consolidating and simplifying network topologies.

Carriers and service providers must satisfy critical implementation questions, however, before replacing or upgrading their existing network infrastructure with MPLS-TP. Network reliability, operational simplicity, quick service provisioning, and end-user QoE requirements must be fully obtainable.

This webinar provides an overview of MPLS-TP technology, discusses associated test scenarios and challenges, and shares experiences from recent MPLS-TP interoperability test events. It also reviews the issues and test plans surrounding MPLS-TP deployment, including interoperability, OAM, APS, MS-PW and MPLS/MPLS-TP internetworking.

MPLS-TP Industry Initiative: Building a Better Road  (00:03:26) - September, 2011 MPLS-TP is building the road to handle both legacy and packet-based traffic [ click here for more info ]

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

Ensuring Policy Management and QoE in Wireless Networks  (01:01:49) - August, 2010 Stéphane Téral, Principal Analyst at Infonetics Research, offers his insights on mobile broadband growth trends and the increasing importance of intelligent policy management. Joe Zeto, Sr. Manager, Market Development at Ixia, then discusses the 3GPP's vision for an end-to-end Policy and Charging Control (PCC) framework and how operators and equipment vendors can validate the performance of their policy management designs. [ 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.

Testing the Cloud  (12:21:02) - October, 2011 Technologists from Ixia cover the unique characteristics of cloud infrastructures, virtualization and data center technology that call for new testing techniques. [ click here for more info ]

 

IxChariot

	Network & Device Assessment with IxChariot  (00:28:31) - October, 2011 This IxChariot webinar gives new users a quick introduction to IxChariot, and answers questions about using IxChariot to assess network performance under a variety of scenarios. [ click here for more info ]
	IxChariot Solution Provider Webinar  (00:27:00) - October, 2011 This 12 minute webinar will outline what IxChariot is, how it can be used to test networks and applications, targeted customers, and benefits of becoming an IxChariot Partner. Originally hosted November 17, 2009, it also contains 15 minutes of Q&A from the original broadcast. [ click here for more info ]

 

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