Service Providers: Multiplay
Managing the Masses
Do your data services meet the application performance and security requirements for excellent QoE?
Can you deliver uninterrupted streaming media and OTT video to browsers and TV sets, IPTV to specialized set-top boxes, and video to mobile devices?
Will your next-generation network handle growing VoIP demands to millions of endpoints?
Service providers are increasingly looking to deliver differentiated multiplay services to businesses and digital homes over converged IP networks. As the Internet evolves, a wider and wider variety of multiplay services are carried from broadly-distributed sources to a large and varied audience of consumers. Services of all types that use a range of protocols are seen in modern multiplay networks, including:
- Data
- Voice over IP
- Voice over LTE (VoLTE)
- Video delivery (streaming, on-demand)
- IPTV
- Peer-to-peer
- Security
Services must be delivered with the proper amount of networking equipment and bandwidth. More and more specialized, application-specific networking devices will continue to emerge as new services gain traction. In contrast, larger and more powerful networking devices are integrating functions of the separate devices.
Ixia offers a complete, all-in-one hardware/software testing solution. Ixia's chassis, interface modules, and applications provide a complete, integrated system for testing all types of multiplay devices and networks. All running on the same chassis, Ixia test applications cover the full gamut from conformance testing, to layer 2-3 and layer 4-7 performance testing, to full automation and regression testing. With Ixia solutions, service providers can test:
- Scalability – determine the maximum number of users and sessions that can be supported
- Performance – measure per-protocol maximum data rates
- Interoperability – ensure that devices conform to published and de facto standards in the same manner
- Security – guarantee that security devices fend off attacks and that other devices are not vulnerable
- Realism – ensures that testing closely matches real-world conditions, with protocol client/server emulations and service traffic over established routing planes
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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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ImpairNet™ - Network impairment emulation and testing with highest port density (40GE) and IxNetwork/IxLoad integration.
Testing a variety of applications that run over WAN networks, this 1GE, 10GE, and 40GE test solution offers unparalleled scaling, ease-of-use, and measurement accuracy. ( 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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IxChariot - software-based traffic generation
Helps more than 5,000 businesses worldwide cost-effectively measure performance of distributed networks in real time using software-based emulation. Encompasses a wide variety of endpoint devices, computer operating systems, and Ixia's vast library of test scripts to facilitate assessing the impact of proposed changes on QoE. ( 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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