IxNetwork for Network Topology Testing and Traffic Analysis
Today's networking environment is becoming increasingly complex. Data center convergence, enterprise expansion, and new service deployments require network professionals to combine many different technologies and devices in a single network infrastructure. Such networks must handle massive amounts of switched and routed traffic over both point-to-point and multicast network strategies.
High capacity network devices are required to route and switch huge amounts of traffic. Network equipment manufacturers producing devices for such environments must be sure that their equipment can not only handle the infrastructure needs of a complex network, but also scale easily - often to massive heights. Network infrastructures must be stressed to see if they can handle the traffic volumes common in today's landscape.
In order to verify new service implementation, new device insertion, or network expansion, entities such as enterprises, service providers, or government agencies must perform extensive pre-deployment lab testing to ensure current network function isn't compromised. This testing must be performed at high capacity and simulate network over-subscription so as to stress the network upgrades to their maximum ability.
IxNetwork is designed to test network infrastructure, capacity, scalability, and convergence using its scaled protocol emulation and ViperCore technology. IxNetwork provides rapid isolation of network issues, service modeling at Internet scale, carrier class scaling, and accurate convergence measurement with TrueView™.
IxNetwork works with Ixia's test platform to exchange control and data plane traffic with the device under test. Ixia's chassis are populated with hot-swappable load modules that implement a wide variety of interface types. Each test port is equipped with an independent processor and substantial memory in addition to specialized traffic stream generation and capture hardware – providing the speed and intelligence needed for large-scale protocol emulation.
IxNetwork VM is designed to work in virtualized environments using Ixia's unique virtual chassis implementation. The IxVM virtual chassis is a software implementation of Ixia's platform, which allows virtual machines (VMs) on blade servers to act as Ixia test ports. The virtual test ports can be used independently or in conjunction with chassis-based ports. Software-based stream and protocol engines in the virtual chassis ports provide the same traffic generation and analysis as Ixia's hardware-based product portfolio.
IxNetwork 6.0 elevates network testing to a new level. Its next generation GUI is designed to dramatically increase productivity with context-sensitive help ribbons, side-by-side configuration and statistics views, and immediate user feedback including color-coded protocol and traffic statistics. The new Resource Manager promotes efficiency through configuration sharing and collaboration, while the new Macro Recorder captures a user’s GUI operation for quick test creation and systematic troubleshooting.
Service Modeling at Internet Scale
- Emulate ultra-high-scale network topologies
- Track up to 4 million flows
- Generate deterministic traffic profiles and control each profile dynamically
- Apply network impairments such as delay, jitter and loss
- Scale up to 600 test ports per session
Rapid Isolation of Service Violations
- Debug difficult problems quickly
- Monitor total service quality
- Drill-down to traffic class statistics
Simple Workflow
- Collaborate on, share, and re-use port, traffic and protocol configurations
- View statistics alongside protocol and traffic configuration for instant feedback
- Make quick adjustments based on color-coded indicators of protocol and traffic status
- Improve productivity with context-sensitive help ribbons
Complete End-to-End System Automation
- Easily run repeatable, unattended test sessions
- Capture and replay GUI actions using Macro Recorder
- Build test scripts that include configuration of your device under test
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