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IxNetwork for Network Topology Testing and Traffic Analysis

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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 (NEM) 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 5.40 is specifically designed to test network infrastructure, capacity, scalability, and convergence using its new ViperCore technology. IxNetwork provides rapid isolation of network issues, service modeling at internet scales, carrier class scaling, and accurate convergence measurement with TrueViewTM.

IxNetwork works with Ixia’s test platform to transmit and receive control and data traffic with the device under test. Ixia’s chassis are populated with hot-swappable test interface cards that implement a wide variety of Ethernet, POS and other technologies. 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 allowing 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.