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Triple Play Testing – IxAutomate

Triple Play Test Suite

Triple Play is a general term referring to the delivery of Voice, Video, and Data services to an end-user as a unified service. From the end-user's perspective, triple play services are typically delivered as Voice over IP (VoIP), Video on Demand (VoD), and High Speed Internet (HSI) over DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) or Cable connections. IxAutomate’s Triple Play test suite is designed to determine the performance characteristics of triple play access or backbone networks.

TriplePlay Scalability Test Topology

TriplePlay Scalability Test Topology

GUI Based Configuration

Client traffic is emulated by selecting a DSLAM option or an nCPE option depending on whether you want aggregated versus individual client streams of traffic. xDSL subscribers are emulated with any mixture of internet, voice, and video traffic. QinQ, DHCP, PPP and DSCP service levels are supported with complete flexibility.

GUI Based Configuration

On the server side the following emulations are supported:

  • HSI (High Speed Internet)- Layer 2-3 stateless HTTP emulation, or Layer 4-7 stateful Premium, silver, or bronze marked HTTP traffic

  • VoIP- Layer 2-3 basic stateless voice emulation, or Layer 4-7 stateful SIP call setup/teardown and voice emulation.

  • Video- Layer 2-3 stateless IPTV-A, IPTV-D, or IPTV-V emulation, or Layer 4-7 stateful IPTV-AD or IPTV-V emulation

Server side emulations

Triple Play Suite Description

Triple Play Tests:
Scalability The Scalability test is designed to be a Proof of Concept test which varies the traffic and service (HSI, voice, video) characteristics from the starting values, during test interval 1, to the end values, during test interval N, to be able to find the limits of the network. There is an N+1 interval that uses the same traffic characteristics as interval 1, in order to test if the network recovers from possible overload conditions generated during the interval N.

Results include:
  • General- throughput, goodput, misdirected flows, delay, jitter, out of order packets
  • HSI- HTTP requests successful and failed, latency, goodput
  • VOIP- MOS scores, Jitter, successful versus failed calls, SIP Invite transaction failures
  • Video- successful zapping rate, zapping failure rate, total zaps, simultaneous BTV viewers, channel switching latency, RTSP setup/play failures, Media Delay Index (MDI), Media Loss Rate (MLR)

Video Statistics:

HSI Statistics:

Voice Statistics:

Requirements

  • Windows 2000 or XP client PC with a minimum of 1gig of RAM.
  • Linux/Unix support- command line only
  • TCL 8.3 or 8.4 support
  • XM12, XM2, X16, Optixia XL10, IXIA 1600T, IXIA 400T, IXIA 250
  • At least one Ixia Load Module: Gigabit TXS Family, LSM1000XMV16, LSM1000XMS12/R12, LSM10G Family, LM622ATM/POS, MSM 2.5G (OC-48c), MSM10G, LM10GE700F1, LM10GE700F1-P. LMOC48C3 and SR.
  • IxOS 4.10 or higher- not all features listed are supported on older IxOS versions.
  • IxLoad 3.20 or higher

Product Ordering Information

928-0200
IxAutomate Framework

928-0205
TriplePlay Suite

P/N: 915-1519-01 Rev A – July 2007



This material is for informational purposes only and subject to change without notice. It describes Ixia's present plans to develop and make available to its customers certain products, features and capabilities. Ixia is only obligated to provide those deliverables specifically included in a written agreement between Ixia and the customer.

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