The Data Center: Heart of the Network
Making the Change Seamless
Are your data center devices ready for the cloud?
Will your devices handle the media-rich traffic mix expected from today's data center?
Can you beat the competition with the latest technology?
Data centers are undergoing a tremendous evolution by improving infrastructure efficiency, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness. Add to this cloud computing and high performance computing (HPC) services, and it's obvious that the key trend is end-to-end compute, storage, and converged networking.
Converged networking includes I/O consolidation; server virtualization; integration of higher speed Ethernet; and convergence of Internet, storage, and HPC traffic over a unified Ethernet network. A new generation of data center equipment and technologies is under development to facilitate this transformation. With the revolutionary change in the way data center networks are designed, deployed, and managed, new testing methodologies must be employed to verify the converged data center "hot spots".
Ixia's platform and test applications feature:
- Complete data center cloud simulation to validate switch performance and ultra-low latency
- Internet and server-to-server traffic to fully load a system with a realistic mixture of north-south and east-west data center traffic
- Top-of-rack switch solutions to stress top of rack data center design architectures
- Most versatile virtual traffic generators to measure the performance of heavy data movement between virtual machines (VMs)
- Protocol emulation for testing the functionality, performance, scalability, and robustness of key technologies; including FCoE, fibre channel, data center bridging (DCB), layer-2 multipath (L2MP) networks, and security.
- Fully integrated energy consumption measurements correlated with network load
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IxNetwork - end-to-end network infrastructure testing and assessment
End-to-end test environment for measuring the performance and impact of switching and routing infrastructures, varying network conditions (latency, jitter, congestion) and evolving data center switching architectures. Provides rapid isolation of network issues and service violations. ( Learn more)
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IxLoad - real-world traffic generation, performance assessment
Generates real-user traffic for assessing network performance and end-user QoE. Emulates live network conditions and traffic mixes at scale to provide relevant qualitative metrics for validating the performance of voice, video, data and Web applications. ( Learn more)
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IxVM - complete L2-7 traffic generation and analysis for virtualized environments
A software-based implementation of Ixia's industry-leading test platforms and "virtual chassis." Virtual traffic generation and assessment informs projections for traffic routing, capacity planning, quality policies and data center accessibility. ( Learn more)
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Anue Network Emulators - Validate network-based products, applications, and services under real world conditions with standards-based test suites and network models
Anue Systems Network Emulators use a unique hardware-based architecture that provides the performance and repeatability necessary to authentically-emulate the real-world networks that your applications and storage solutions will be deployed in. Network conditions include access bandwidth, bandwidth congestion, delay, delay variation (jitter), link failure, time drift, route flapping, reordered packets, and packet drops as well as MEF-18 and ITU-T G.8261 Test Suites and TIA-921 / ITU-T G.1050 Network Models. ( Learn more)
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IxANVL - standards compliance testing
Includes Ixia's full suite of IPv6 conformance testing. ( Learn more)
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IxGreen - energy efficiency testing of a data center infrastructure.
Rising energy prices have made data center energy costs a noticeable OPEX item, and therefore a target for optimization. ( Learn more)
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