Ixia has partnered with Force10 Networks to hold the world’s largest ever public demonstration of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) traffic switching. With the help of Force10 ExaScale data center optimized core switch/routers, Ixia’s (News - Alert) XM12 chassis and 280 IxYukon 10 GE test ports will be switched.

 

The 12-slot Optixia XM12 modular chassis provides an ultra-high density, highly flexible platform on which an Ixia test system can be built. IxYukon is the latest evolution of Ixia's solution for testing 10 Gigabit Ethernet devices and networks. IxYukon interface modules are used with Ixia's latest XM family of chassis: the XM12 and XM2.

 

To prepare and run the test, Ixia’s IxNetwork 5.40 release will be used. Enabling service level agreement (SLA) validation by measuring up to four million service-level flows, IxNetwork’s next generation technology increases the scale and performance of Ixia’s layer 2/3 testing. Each flow represents a possible customer service such as VoIP, video or data center traffic.

 

 “IxNetwork’s ViperCore enables internet scale multi-dimensional routing emulation coupled with flexible service modeling of VoIP, video and data center traffic,” said Victor Alston, Senior Vice President of Product Development. “IxNetwork’s TrueView service convergence measurement showcases ExaScale’s impressive performance in excess of 2 Bpps (billion packets per second), and high availability that will be necessary for next generation data centers and mission critical enterprise networks.”

 

Since IxNetwork 5.40 release offers the ability to dynamically update traffic profiles on the go, it ensures performance benchmarking and QoS enforcement. Also, to isolate device problem areas, aggregated and per-flow run-time statistics provide rapid drill-down.

 

The company recently released its IxVM product suite, helping data center managers assess virtual infrastructure performance and capacity. Specifically, IxVM builds on the company’s library of layer 2-7 performance test tools that discover, manage and automate testing in large virtualized environments. The new suite of IxVM products helps data center managers measure the performance of virtual network and server resources when thousands of users access different services.