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Ixia Announces Industry's Most Scalable, Realistic Peer-to-Peer Simulation
CALABASAS, Calif.-(Business Wire)-June 18, 2008 - Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, today announced the industry's most realistic and scalable simulation of peer-to-peer (P2P) service traffic. Ixia's IxLoad(TM) P2P solution gives service providers the ability to validate the effect of P2P traffic on revenue-generating services at citywide scale. It also enables network equipment manufacturers to thoroughly test the accuracy and reliability of the detection and classification mechanisms of deep packet inspection (DPI)-capable, application-aware devices.
P2P traffic produces between 30 percent and 60 percent of worldwide Internet traffic and, as a result, can negatively impact the quality of experience (QoE) of mission-critical services such as voice and video. To track and manage P2P consumption of bandwidth, service providers rely on DPI-capable devices. DPI enables service providers to gain much better visibility into how subscribers are using broadband services, thus helping to determine what kind of new services should be offered in the future. Better visibility into the network also translates into improved performance, troubleshooting, and security monitoring. Ixia's P2P solution, in conjunction with other multiprotocol emulations, can be used to validate the bandwidth management and QoS schemes deployed to ensure quality of experience (QoE) is optimized for all users on the network.
Isocore, a leading technology validation and certification laboratory, used Ixia's P2P solution to validate quality of service (QoS) performance of 10 Gbps application-aware devices. Application-layer forwarding is a very complex and resource-intensive task, making it critical to validate performance at line rates up to 10 Gbps.
"The P2P emulation provided by IxLoad simplifies the creation of real world test environment for verifying inline DPI solutions," said Rajiv Papneja, director of Isocore. "The intuitive user interface, coupled with the capability to emulate many P2P flows in addition to built-in set of libraries further simplifies the usage and test configurations."
Despite the negative connotation of P2P, it is a very efficient and resilient method of distributing content over IP networks. Increasingly, content providers are beginning to use peer-peer distribution technology to distribute popular commercial fare such as video. One such content provider is TVBank, based in Japan, focused on video content acquisition and video streaming systems.
Ixia provides an intuitive solution enabling engineers to simply turn a dial to scale up subscriber and bandwidth load. In addition, Ixia's P2P emulation capabilities mimic a variety of P2P traffic flows at user-defined parameters, including numbers of peers, connection rates, concurrent connections, and throughput.
"IxLoad offers an elegant mechanism for modeling the dynamic nature of subscribers, thereby ensuring complete test realism," said Anupam Sahai, Ixia's vice president of Marketing. "The ability to dial to scale, combined with the ability to measure QoE on a per-subscriber basis, makes IxLoad's P2P emulation capabilities a valuable solution for validating service delivery networks."
IxLoad 4.0 is a highly scalable, integrated test solution for assessing the performance of multiplay networks and application-aware devices such as load balancers, firewalls, cache engines and security devices equipped with DPI technology. IxLoad creates a truly converged traffic mix to measure the effectiveness of application-aware devices at peak performance levels.
About Ixia
Ixia is a leading provider of IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for IP-based infrastructure and services. Ixia's test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments and enterprises to validate the performance and reliability of complex IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.
For more information, contact Ixia at 26601 W. Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302; (818) 871-1800, Fax: (818) 871-1805; Email: info@ixiacom.com or visit our Web Site at http://www.ixiacom.com.
Ixia, IxLoad, and the Ixia four-petal logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Ixia. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This material is for informational purposes only and subject to change without notice. It describes Ixia's present plans to develop and make available to its customers certain products, features and capabilities. Ixia is only obligated to provide those deliverables specifically included in a written agreement between Ixia and the customer.
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