Ixia Opens State-of-the-Art Proof-of-Concept Lab and Executive Briefing Center in Silicon Valley
Demonstrates a City-Scale Network with More Than 100,000 Truly
Converged Multi-Play Subscribers
CALABASAS, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading global provider of IP performance
test systems, today announced the opening of "iSimCity," an executive
briefing center and proof-of-concept (PoC) lab adjacent to its sales
and services offices in Santa Clara, Calif. Today Ixia will conduct a
city-scale demonstration on assuring Quality of Experience (QoE) in
high performance, converged multi-play networks.
With the ability to conduct city-scale testing at iSimCity,
customers can access thousands of test ports and aggregate traffic in
the range of 10-100 Gbps, emulate hundreds of thousands of
subscribers/users and generate millions of routes with thousands of
routing peers. They also can conduct system testing by emulating
dozens of infrastructure servers, including load balancers, denial of
service defenders, switches, routers, video servers, SIP proxies, and
DNS and DHCP servers.
"Our goal is to provide carrier grade scale with real-world
network emulation that will provide quick proof to our customers that
Ixia's test solutions are essential in getting their products and
services to market more quickly," said Atul Bhatnagar, Ixia president
and COO. "iSimCity has all the industry-leading Ixia software and
hardware solutions so customers can be assured that their equipment
and services are benchmarked with the best of breed testing
solutions."
Network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprises
often request proof-of-concept demonstrations, at scale, before they
will commit to purchasing test applications and equipment. Both test
hardware and software must function with the devices tested.
Ixia's iSimCity PoC lab can complement companies' existing test
labs and accelerate time to market by adding bandwidth for in-house
projects, or handle short lead time requests for testing that their
in-house test resources cannot schedule. And with Ixia's Test
Conductor, the entire test plan design and execution can be automated
to speed the same process to just a fraction of the time.
In addition the PoC test facilities and executive briefings,
customers can take advantage of Ixia's professional services and
schedule third-party tests in iSimCity's advanced lab environment.
"Ixia's state-of-the-art lab is an ideal proving ground," said Rob
Smithers, CEO of Miercom, a leading technology product testing
company. "The facility is the perfect place for high-density,
large-scale and real-world tests of enterprise and carrier-market
equipment."
Ixia is committed to provisioning 'iSimCity' with cutting-edge
products coupled with world-class expertise, both of which are
necessary to take the industry's most sophisticated and leading
solutions to the market on time with superb quality.
About Ixia
Ixia is a leading provider of performance test systems 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 triple-play 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 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.
Corporate Communications
Ixia
Cathi Lane, Director of Public Relations, 818-444-2983
clane@ixiacom.com
or
Editorial Contact
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Jason Aiken, 415-984-1970 x.110
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