Service Providers: Multiplay
Managing the Masses
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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