Ixia Enhances Service Verification Solution with Gigabit Monitoring for IP/MPLS Networks

XR1000 Low-Cost Appliance Allows Comprehensive Test Capabilities at Critical Points in High Capacity Networks
Interop Las Vegas 2009

Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, today announced the availability of its XR1000 integrated hardware appliance as part of its award-winning IxRave service verification solution. XR1000s are Gigabit Ethernet probes that deliver end-to-end active monitoring and analysis of multiplay networks.

The XR1000 extends IxRave’s ability to deliver multi-service testing, quality of experience (QoE) performance monitoring and fault isolation across different technology domains – from subscriber multiplay to higher bandwidth IP/MPLS networks. With IxRave, service providers can actively test their customers’ individual paths from the network core to the customer premise in a cost-effective, centralized solution. Large enterprises can also deploy the IxRave solution to help monitor and verify the network services being delivered by any number of service providers to their central or remote sites across the globe.

The XR1000 provides a comprehensive set of test capabilities at critical points in the network and along customers’ data paths. These low-cost appliances can be placed at the data center, access, edge and core demarcation points to isolate throughput and application quality problems to the network segment. The XR1000 is a Gigabit Ethernet device, which may be used in conjunction with the 10/100 Mbps XR100 or with downloadable software endpoints across an entire network to manage and monitor every customer path across a carrier network.

“Using the XR1000 assisted us in economically provisioning high bandwidth customers in our Pathfinder North and UHI services,” said Iain Good, Network Design Consultant, Cable&Wireless Europe, Asia and US. “Alternative solutions, such as manual testing would have been costly and less efficient – and ultimately our goal is to ensure we deliver our customers excellent service, first time and every time.”

The XR1000 can execute periodic active monitoring tests, trigger QoS-based measurements of industry standard network threshold values, generate alarms and traps, or issue on-demand live QoE network trend analysis. IxRave and the XR1000 measure data throughput, jitter, packet loss, latency delay, IPTV MDI and VoIP MOS metrics throughout the service provider network.

“Service providers increasingly receive demands from their customers for tighter service level specifications for Ethernet and IP VPN services. They need new tools like the XR1000 to get end-to-end visibility and metrics,” said Walker Colston, VP of Converged Monitoring at Ixia.

IxRave and the XR1000 are available immediately. With IxRave, service providers can now actively monitor, measure and troubleshoot their converged networks and services using a unified, affordable, centralized solution. IxRave actively tests all customers’ individual paths with the same type of traffic that they use, ensuring high QoE and SLA conformance.

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading supplier of test, measurement and service verification solutions to Internet equipment manufacturers, carriers, service providers, government agencies and enterprises. Ixia’s platform is used to test IP networking equipment of all types and sizes, with powerful and flexible test applications that handle the widest range of Internet usage – from routing and switching to converged applications traffic to validating the service quality of live networks and services. Ixia’s multiplay test solutions are acknowledged as the market leader – addressing the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

Ixia, XR1000, IxRave and the Ixia four-petal logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Ixia. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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