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Testing Voice: Test Applications & Solutions

Voice over IP (VoIP) is no longer a niche technology - it's become mainstream and is now a major component of carriers' and service providers' consumer and business offerings. Modern deployments now call for millions of VoIP endpoints. Network equipment manufactures (NEMs), carriers, service providers and enterprises must create and deploy next generation hardware to handle growing VoIP demands, and need testing options that can simulate large volumes of real-world voice traffic.

Ixia products for testing voice services cover the entire voice technology spectrum, including VoIP, IMS, unified communication and PSTN. They apply not just to NEMs building voice hardware, but to enterprises and carriers that need to maintain and troubleshoot their voice networks. Ixia's solutions scale with the growth of your network, and cover a wide range of scenarios − from a single protocol on one device to a diverse multiplay communication network. Ixia provides test applications for protocol conformance, function/feature validation and performance testing. Ixia's voice testing solutions use powerful software products coupled with innovative hardware to provide the highest level of voice service testing.

IxLoad Voice is a scalable, high-performance solution for converged application delivery testing. Using Ixia's Acceleron™ load module, IxLoad Voice can match today's network capacities with an unprecedented, large-scale VoIP emulation of one million endpoints per chassis - five times the capacity of competing products. It creates realistic triple-play traffic mixes with complex, customizable calling streams. The VQM load modules give users access to the powerful processing needed to provide real-time quality analysis, using PESQ scores. IxLoad Voice emulates a wide spectrum of voice protocols, including SIP, H.248 (MEGACO), H.323, Cisco® SCCP (Skinny) and MGCP endpoints. IxLoad's IPTV over IMS solution validates the key IMS subsystems for interoperability, features and performance.

IxChariot leads the industry in predicting device and system performance under realistic load conditions by emulating real-world applications. IxChariot creates sophisticated traffic patterns with and without QoS for IPv4 and IPv6. It measures throughput, jitter, packet loss and MOS (mean opinion scores) for VoIP.

IxVoice is a hardware and software framework for testing voice conformance and functionality. It allows for low-level VoIP and PSTN testing for the telecom/network equipment manufacturer, carrier and enterprise markets. IxVoice is a cost-effective solution whose test libraries address all major VoIP protocols: SIP, SCCP (skinny), H.323, MGCP, H.248 (MEGACO), as well as TDM and analog telephony services. IxVoice's unique drag-and-drop architecture instantly creates test scenarios with predefined visual blocks.

IxANVL is the industry standard for automated network/protocol validation. IxANVL includes a test suite for SIP conformance, designed to test SIP proxy implementations.

IxRave is a revolutionary new approach to network monitoring that uses active customer traffic over the customer's delivery path to verify service. The IxRave MSO multiplay bundle measures true end-to-end performance across an entire network using passive monitoring and active testing. Its patent-pending architecture features a combination of software probes, inexpensive hardware probes, and the Ixia test chassis that isolate network segments and devices so you can locate the exact problem point.



White Papers

Datasheets

Presentations

  • IxLoad Overview (4.02 MB ) - this presentation covers IxLoad's features for Triple Play testing, including advanced network features, inherent flexibility, performance, statistics, and analysis. The full complement of IxLoad emulated protocols is covered.

Test Plans

Brochures

  • Test Solutions for IP Networks (11 MB ) - discusses Ixia's testing solutions for switching and routing, multiplay delivery, 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.


IxLoad - a highly scalable, integrated test solution for assessing the performance of multiplay networks and devices. IxLoad emulates subscribers and associated protocols to ensure subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE). Voice protocols supported include SIP, MGCP, advanced VoIP and Cisco® SCCP (Skinny).

IxVoice - a comprehensive hardware and software test framework that provides unified VoIP and PSTN test solutions for the telecom/network equipment manufacturer, carrier and enterprise markets.

IxChariot - tests triple play network components with a variety of protocol tests.

IxAutomate - the triple play test suite contains pre-built scripts for many of the voice protocols.

IxANVL - contains conformance tests for most voice protocols used in triple play devices.

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