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Service Provider Testing Tools and Solutions

Service providers face a unique set of challenges in today's market. Service convergence over IP and increased competition make it tough for you to differentiate your services while minimizing expenses. Winning new subscribers is expensive, and losing them even more so. Maintaining subscriber quality of experience (QoE) is critical to building customer loyalty, while new services help you differentiate your offerings and generate new revenue streams.

Luckily, Ixia has the network test tools that allow you to reduce your network OpEx while ensuring high QoE for new, converged services.

Ixia can help you through the entire service delivery cycle, from network provisioning and vendor selection to minimizing truck rolls in a live network. These assets, coupled with Ixia's test expertise and standing as the NEM's tool of choice, make Ixia a great choice for converged service provider IP performance testing.

Pre-Deployment Testing

Ixia's experience working with the major NEMs means that we have the tools and expertise to push network components to their limit and verify performance and reliability. Ixia has the industry's leading multiplay test solution and the industry's highest protocol scalability. In fact, our products scale so well that a single port can replace many DUTs in a test network, reducing cost and complexity in your labs.

Ixia's broad protocol and technology coverage means that service providers can perform end-to-end system testing of all their managed IP services on a single test platform. In addition, Ixia can provide QoE metrics for each voice, video, or data service - enabling your network engineers to accurately provision bandwidth and traffic controls.

To aid in the vendor selection process, Ixia's IxGreen offers a unique set of tools for testing the environmental impact and energy usage of your network devices. Choosing the right components to 'green up' your network could mean significant energy savings over time.

Post-Deployment Testing

Ixia's IP service verification tools can dramatically reduce the OpEx costs of running a live network. Remote fault-finding in the last mile means faster fault resolution and fewer truck rolls, as evidenced in Ixia's deployment at Bell Canada where unwarranted truck rolls were reduced by 98% (a saving of $2.3M Canadian dollars) in the first year of deployment.

Ixia's IxRave IP Service Verification system requires no remote probes, and can be easily integrated with your existing OSS.

"Before, when we needed to reconfigure our network topologies, validating that the quality of service was satisfactory after an upgrade was a painful and labor intensive process. With IxRave Voice, we can automatically test an entire network topology before and after reconfiguration and get immediate feedback regarding voice service quality. What used to take hours now takes minutes and is automated."

Joe Jensen, CTO, Buckeye Cable

"The blending of digital media and telecommunication services is creating highly sophisticated networks. CSPs are demanding fully functional assurance systems capable of supporting multi-service operations. Ixia IxRave provides both multi-service testing capabilities and does it across different technology domains."

Patrick Kelly of Analysys Mason

White Papers

  • Router Testing with Real-World Emulation (825.21 KB ) - explores the reasons why scalability during device and network testing is essential. Demonstrates the need for scalability for testing IPv4/IPv6 networks, testing multicast VPN scenarios, testing carrier-class switches and routers and testing with stateful traffic.
  • Multiplay Testing (886.98 KB ) - Discusses the requirements for testing of a complete mix of voice, video, data and infrastructure testing. Specific application-specific testing approaches are discussed.
  • IP Service Verification - this white paper details the requirements that carriers and service providers have for rolling out and troubleshooting new converged voice, video and data services.

Datasheets

Presentations

  • IxLoad Overview (4.02 MB ) - this presentation covers IxLoad's multiplay testing features, including advanced network protocols, inherent flexibility, performance, statistics, and analysis. The full complement of IxLoad emulated protocols is covered.
  • IxNetwork Overview (3.07 MB ) - this presentation covers IxNetwork's ability to test at scale and at speed all major routing, switching, and authentication protocols.
  • IxRave Overview - this presentation discusses the manner in which IxRave uses passive monitoring and active testing to provide post-deployment troubleshooting for service providers.

Brochures

  • Extreme Scalability (959.03 KB ) - Router Testing with Real-World Emulation - explores the reasons why scalability during device and network testing is essential. Illustrates the need for scalability for IPv4/IPv6 networks, multicast VPN scenarios, carrier-class routers and stateful traffic.
  • Multiplay Testing (20.79 MB ) - this brochure discusses multiplay devices and networks. It explores how Ixia's solutions cover all forms of multiplay traffic, especially peer-to-peer.
  • IPTV Testing - Ensuring Quality of Experience through Intelligent Testing (3.07 MB ) - Discusses the means by which IPTV is delivered to the home. The implementation differences between broadcast video and video on demand (VoD) are highlighted. An overview of video delivery challenges is presented, including channel change performance. IPTV associated testing requirements are covered.
  • IP Service Verification (790.46 KB ) - this brochure details the need for active IP service verification and the manner in which Ixia's IxRave aids service providers in measuring SLAs and finding and fixing problems quickly.
  • Ixia Testing Solutions (11 MB ) - discusses Ixia's testing solutions for switching and routing, triple-play delivery, IMS, data center operations, Carrier Ethernet, network assessment, and broadband access performance and conformance.
  • Ixia Platform (1.22 MB ) - the Ixia chassis and load modules used to generate line-rate traffic and capture results.
solutions

IxLoad - a highly scalable, integrated test solution for assessing the performance of multiplay networks and devices.

IxNetwork - characterizes the performance and scalability of routers and switches.

IxRAVE - for use in service provider deployments for passive and active monitoring and troubleshooting.

Ixia Platform (Chassis/Load Modules) - the Ixia chassis and load modules used to generate line-rate traffic and capture results.

news

Press Releases