IMS Testing

Ixia's IMS test solutions offer the protocol breadth, stack depth, and traffic/signaling capacity required to stress and verify IMS network elements. Test cases and configurations may be constructed for any of the four primary IMS functional areas: access network, core network, interworking elements, and application servers. Key test scenarios include:

• Standard call generation
• Function test suite creation
• Negative testing
• Handover scenarios
• Load and capacity testing
• Application signaling and bearer traffic

Extensive protocol support is included to test all key IMS areas, including authentication, call session control, security, charging, and quality of service. Complex lower layer protocol analysis, essential for IMS testing, is likewise supported. PESQ support is provided for voice analysis. Ixia's multi-user, multi-protocol, multi-technology platform facilitates simultaneous testing of mobile users, application servers and their services, and the PSTN. High performance load testing is easily accomplished.

"Ixia is an established leader for testing performance for IP communications, which forms the basis of IMS. We're very happy to have Ixia participate in our first Plugfest and look forward to working with the company on future IMS Forum events."

Michael Khalilian, Chairman and President of IMS Forum, CTO of Pervasip Corp

Datasheets

• IxCatapult IMS
• IxCatapult LTE
• IxCatapult Chassis
• IxCatapult LTE eNode B Wraparound Testing (87.22 KB )
• IxCatapult High-Capacity LTE UE Simulation (163.37 KB )
• IxCatapult LTE Core Network Testing (159.94 KB )
• IxCatapult AAA Testing (115.05 KB )
• IxCatapult Femtocell Testing (109.11 KB )
• IxCatapult Testbench (144.08 KB )

Brochures

• Wireless Network Testing (3.13 MB ) 
• IPTV over IMS (637.15 KB ) 

White Papers

• Wireless Network Testing (1.06 MB )  - A study on the evolution of wireless networking technology and strategies for testing LTE, IMS, EPC and UMTS network components and services.
• Single Carrier FDMA in LTE (1.05 MB ) - A deep-dive into SC-FDMA technology
• eNode B Wraparound Testing (1.07 MB ) - A discussion of the need to stress every interface of the eNode B, along with suggested eNode B test methodologies.
• The Challenges of IPTV Delivery over IMS 
• Developing a Holistic Testing Strategy for Ensuring a Successful IPTV Deployment (775.6 KB ) 

• LTE eNode B Testing - supports the LTE air interface and performs radio resource management. Also includes testing for Serving Gateway (SGW), Mobility Management Entity (MIME), and Packet Data Network Gateway (PDN-GW).
• 3G UMTS Radio Access Network Testing - includes HSPA testing, Packet Data testing, protocol analysis and node validation
• 3GPP Wireless Core Network Testing - permits highly scalable and flexible testing of the GGSN and the Evolved Packet Core
• Testing IPTV over IMS

Events

June 15-18, 2010
Focus: Design, implementation, usage, and evaluation of mobile computing and wireless systems, applications, and services
Venue: JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square
Location: San Francisco, CA
Additional information:Ixia is a silver patron sponsor for the event.

Press Releases

• February 1, 2010 - Ixia to Demonstrate Unique End-to-End Subscriber Modeling for LTE Triple-play Testing at Mobile World Congress

  Calabasas, CA February 1, 2010 –Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), the leading, global providers of converged IP network test solutions, today announced that it will demonstrate testing of  LTE nodes and networks from the w...