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Wireless Network Testing

Wireless Network Testing

As cellular bandwidth demand and network complexity increase exponentially, you need a test solution that scales with your growing requirements. You need a test solution that exercises all aspects of your deployment, from raw radio waves all the way through the backhaul IP network.

Ixia can qualify your network components and services throughout their lifecycle with a full suite of solutions for:

  • Compliance Testing to ensure correct interpretation of standards, and interoperability with other network devices.
  • Functional Testing to exercise every combination of options, connections, and traffic types, including negative stimuli.
  • Performance Testing to measure raw capacity such as the maximum number of connections, maximum rate of connection establishment, and maximum uplink and downlink throughput
  • Scalability Testing to measure user quality of experience under current and projected real-world traffic loads.

With IxCatapult, IxLoad and IxNetwork, Ixia tests every component of your network from the Internet core to the wireless edge



Our SSX devices allow operators to manage the growing capacity challenges of today’s 3G networks, while ensuring a smooth transition to the rigorous 4G/LTE environment. Handling GTP at scale is not only necessary for key 3G core elements, but for new data offload applications as well, and GTP will remain integral to LTE deployments. Ixia has been a good partner for Stoke, working jointly to push the performance envelope of mobile network test equipment. Ixia’s IxNetwork test solution enables us to validate our ability to reliably process GTP for mobile data offload deployments today, while paving the way for expanding the SSX’s role in LTE’s evolved packet core tomorrow.

David Arnold, Vice President of Engineering, Stoke

"Bouyges Telecom has been using both Ixia and Catapult for several years now to test both core and edge of our 3G network. We're glad to see the combined companies working diligently to deliver new and innovative solutions to help us roll out services faster with higher success rates."

Jean-Marc Pascal, Bouyges Telecom

Ixia TV

Net Events-hosted LTE webinar featuring Alcatel-Lucent, Dell 'Oro Group and Ixia
A 55 min on-demand video webinar featuring analyst Dell 'Oro Group's insights into wireless market trends, Alcatel-Lucent's expertise on LTE network design, and Ixia's advice on LTE testing methodologies.

Wireless LTE Testing Through Multi-UE Emulation

Wireless LTE Testing Through Multi-UE Emulation  (00:03:30) - August, 2009

James Rankin, Product Manager at Ixia, discusses the complexities of testing LTE (long term evolution) wireless products and how Ixia's IxCatapult performs large scale UE emulation to handle these complexities.


Library

Brochures

  • TD-LTE Solution Guide (English) (1.7 MB ) open in new window- outlines Ixia's solution for LTE UE simulation over TDD, including details of functional and performance test capabilities
  • TD-LTE Solution Guide (Chinese) (1.66 MB ) open in new window - outlines Ixia's solution for LTE UE simulation over TDD, including details of functional and performance test capabilities.
  • Ixia Testing Solutions (10.07 MB ) open in new window - 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.
  • Wireless Network Testing (3.13 MB ) open in new window

Poster

White Papers

  • Evolved Packet Core (EPC) Testing (637 KB ) open in new window - A study of EPC architecture and technology, and recommended methodologies for ensuring quality service delivery.
  • Wireless Network Testing (1.06 MB ) open in new window - 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.
  • Testing Multiplay Networks (3.52 MB ) open in new window - Modern carrier, ISP, and Enterprise networks now carry a wide mix of traffic, with Web, P2P, streaming and download in the lead. A wide range of general and specialized devices are used to generate and forward traffic, with careful attention to quality of service and other performance metrics. This paper discusses the impact of testing these devices and Ixias solutions.
  • Strategies for Managing the P2P Phenomenon open in new window - The growth in P2P traffic and its high-bandwidth characteristics is discussed. P2P challenges for networking devices in a multiplay environment are described. Various solutions and test methodologies are explored, with special emphasis on the use of stateful, policy-based QoS management.
  • Developing a Holistic Testing Strategy for Ensuring a Successful IPTV Deployment (775.6 KB ) open in new window - offers a systematic approach to testing an IPTV transport infrastructure in its early and predeployment stages.

Test Plans

See the Ixia Blackbook site for information pertaining to:
  • LTE Cell Configuration and Synchronization
  • LTE Cell Access and Attach
  • LTE Data Transfer
  • LTE Detach Process

Datasheets

Solution

  • 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
  • IMS Testing - performs network simulation, network validation, node validation and gateway testing.
  • 3GPP Wireless Core Network Testing - permits highly scalable and flexible testing on gateway GPRS support nodes (GGSNs)

News and Press

Events

MobiSys
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.

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