IxLoad: IxLoad Data Sheet
Overview
IxLoadTM is the industry’s most scalable solution for testing converged multiplay services and application delivery platforms. IxLoad emulates data, voice, and video subscribers and their associated protocols for ultra-high performance testing. Unique and advanced subscriber modeling capabilities create realistic scenarios to validate subscriber quality of experience (QoE). IxLoad supports such video, voice, and data protocols1 as:
- MPEG, IGMP, and RTSP
- SIP and MGCP
- HTTP, P2P, FTP, and SMTP.
IxLoad also tests the 3GPP wireless packet core network for GGSN using these protocols. In addition, It can test critical aspects of network infrastructure, such as DNS, DHCP, and AAA services. IxLoad also stresses security platforms using integrated L2/L3 authentication mechanisms such as 802.1x and NAC, as well generating malicious traffic for security testing.
Features2
- Emulates a complete multiplay user environment by running data, voice, and video services simultaneously
- Uses a flexible framework by offering in-depth features for functional and performance testing
- Supports integrated automation capabilities
- Analyzes quality of experience (QoE) per subscriber by supporting video quality metrics (MDI, VQMon) and voice quality scores (MOS)
- Models realistic subscriber capability and allows applications and network to work in unison
- QoE detective – features per-subscriber, per-IP or per-VLAN statistics to measure application performance information across multiple services, in real-time
- Application replay – enables replay of stateful captures in order to simulate emerging and propriety Internet traffic at varying levels of performance
- Provides network diagnostics of network-layer statistics in real-time for complete insight into test operation, allowing debugging and troubleshooting of complex network configurations
- Sets network failure thresholds on a per-test basis, so as to prevent minor misconfigurations or network issues from stopping a valuable test run
- Uses wizards to easily create complete tests, or to create new network topologies
- Seeks test objective goals automatically, inclucing concurrent connections, connection rate, simulated users, and throughput
- Uses built-in impairment with multiple impair profiles by introducing latency, jitter, and packet drops, fragmentation, and upload/download bandwidth limit to be applied on transmission
- Supports real-time packet captures with filtering and ladder diagrams analysis
- Packet analyzer – plays media packet payloads in a media player
- Traffic mapping – configures the IP addresses and VLANs that will send and receive traffic to and from each other
- Generates malicious traffic and detects the presence of illegal packets that were not discarded by a DUT under DDOS or vulnerability attack.
- Supports IPv4 and IPv6
- Supports 3GPP UMTS Gn interfaces
- Uses link layer protocols like PPPoE, IPSec, and DHCP
- Supports L2/L3 authentication mechanisms such as WebAuth, 802.1x and NAC
- Uses real-world network configurations such as multiple subnetworks, unique MAC addresses, 802.1q, 802.1p, and emulated router support
- Uses real-world user behavior bu employing “think” times, configurable responses, impairment, etc.
- Uses a standard Linux TCP stack
- Contructs ramp-up, ramp-down user sessions – linear, step, and adaptive modes
- Provides extensive statistics and reports
- Provides fully customizable statistics viewer with advanced graphing capabilities
- Option to automatically log all
Supported Layer 7 Protocols
| Data |
HTTP (1.0/1.1)
SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1 FTP TFTP SMTP POP3 IMAP RTSP, RTP/UDP, RTP/TCP Telnet SSH CIFS DNS DHCP LDAP RADIUS |
|---|---|
| Peer-to-peer |
BitTorrent eDonkey |
| VoIP |
SIP MGCP H.323 H.248 Cisco SCCP (Skinny) |
| Video |
Multicast TV and Video on Demand IGMPv2, IGMPv3 RTSP, RTP/UDP, UDP |
Supported Standards
| Network |
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| HTTP |
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| FTP |
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| SMTP |
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| POP3 |
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| IMAP |
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| CIFS |
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| DHCP |
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| Application Test |
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| SIP |
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| RTP |
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| MGCP |
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| Video |
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| Wireless |
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| Telnet |
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| SSH |
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| DNS |
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| DHCP |
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| RADIUS |
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1Some protocols are part of the advanced protocol bundle only.
2Some features require the use of IxAnalyzer. See the ordering information for IxAnalyzer requirements.
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