IxLoad

L4-7 performance testing for multiplay services, application delivery platforms, and network security appliances

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Highlights

  • Offers the industry’s highest HTTP, SSL, and IPsec performance and scale
  • Delivers end-to-end testing of converged wireless and wired application delivery infrastructure and services
  • Provides real-time insight into QoE
  • Emulates fully integrated broadband network infrastructures with application traffic testing
  • Serves as the only test solution in the market that can model the dynamic nature of user behavior
  • Achieves seamless application performance validation across physical and virtual networks
  • Emulates a blend of real-world application traffic used on today’s networks (AppLibrary)

Measure the Quality of Experience of Real-Time, Business-Critical Applications With Converged Multiplay Service Emulations

Problem: Endangered Quality of Experience

In today’s highly competitive landscape, organizations must meet stringent network quality requirements to deliver the best customer experience. However, a widening array of multimedia applications, and an increasing number of users, is making it harder — and more expensive — than ever to validate converged multiplay services and application delivery platforms. Without a way to properly test these services, customer quality of experience is at risk.

Solution: A Highly Scalable and Easy-to-Use Solution for Testing and Validation

IxLoad delivers comprehensive performance testing for validating user quality of experience. IxLoad works by emulating web, video, voice, storage, VPN, wireless, infrastructure, and encapsulation/security protocols to create realistic scenarios. A modular system design allows IxLoad to scale with your infrastructure while real-time quality of experience metrics let you drill down to quickly identify network degradations and isolate breaking points. Since IxLoad is as easy to use as it is effective, you don’t have to be a protocol expert to achieve complete end-to-end service validation.

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Featured Resources

Data Sheets 2020.08.06

IxLoad Overview — Converged Multiplay Service Validation

IxLoad Overview — Converged Multiplay Service Validation

IxLoad provides comprehensive performance tests for validation and quality of experience (QoE) . IxLoad works by emulating web, video, voice, storage, wireless VPN, infrastructure and encapsulation protocols / security to create realistic scenarios.

2020.08.06

Data Sheets 2020.08.11

IxLoad Data Test Solution

IxLoad Data Test Solution

Ixia’s IxLoad Data test solution delivers the industry’s most scalable and flexible solution for testing high-performance application-aware devices and networks.

2020.08.11

Data Sheets 2020.08.27

IxLoad - Video Test Solution

IxLoad - Video Test Solution

IxLoad delivers the industry’s most scalable and flexible solution for realistic load testing of over the top (OTT), video on demand (VoD), IPTV media, and cache platforms to validate end-to-end video delivery architectures.

2020.08.27

Data Sheets 2020.05.26

IxLoad® — Voice Test Solution

IxLoad® — Voice Test Solution

IxLoad is the industry’s most scalable and flexible solution for realistic load testing of VoIP platforms to validate end-to-end voice delivery architectures. It emulates thousands of user sessions with dynamic call flows and measures real-time voice quality.

2020.05.26

Data Sheets 2020.05.26

IxLoad® — IPSEC and Network Access Test Solution

IxLoad® — IPSEC and Network Access Test Solution

The IxLoad Network Access and VPN test solution provides a rich set of emulations with dynamic interface behavior that adds a new dimension of subscriber and network realism when testing application-aware devices.

2020.05.26

Data Sheets 2020.09.03

Data Center Storage 100GE Test Load Module

Data Center Storage 100GE Test Load Module

Keysight’s Data Center Storage 100GE Test Load Module generates realistic RoCEv2 traffic at line-rate in a controlled and repetitive manner. It enables users to characterize the performance and latency impacts of various storage workloads and tune switching fabric parameters to overcome network congestion.

2020.09.03

White Papers 2020.08.12

Chaos to Control: Validating Distributed, Disaggregated Digital Transformation

Chaos to Control: Validating Distributed, Disaggregated Digital Transformation

As networks and the data they carry become increasingly key to the enterprise and other organizations, the importance of the ability to test and measure the performance of that vital infrastructure also grows.

2020.08.12

White Papers 2020.05.25

The Challenges of IPTV Delivery over IMS

The Challenges of IPTV Delivery over IMS

IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) is an architectural framework for delivering IP multimedia to fixed and mobile users. IMS promises to facilitate the blending of quad-play services (voice, video, TV and mobility) in interactive, personalized ways. Delivery of a quad-play bundle, with one monthly-bill, is a highly desirable objective for service providers of all types – especially wireline operators. In this informative white paper, The Challenges of IPTV Delivery over IMS, Ixia discusses both current IPTV delivery and IPTV within IMS. We will describe the various standard groups’ activities, look at the challenges to service providers with respect to IMS-IPTV delivery and finally look at the testing requirements for the networks that deliver IMS-IPTV. Learn about IPTV challenges when delivering the service over IMS and the testing requirements needed to verify each of the video transport architectures.

2020.05.25

Solution Briefs 2020.05.29

Voice Service Assurance

Voice Service Assurance

To mitigate latency and jitter, service providers need the ability to measure how real-world call-flow characteristics of ever-changing traffic patterns impact voice services. But validating user experience in a large distributed network is challenging, as the network is complex and many times there is no possible way to place a test probe on the end user equipment. Open this document to learn how Ixia IxLoad test endpoints, deployed in the public cloud, enable automated assessments from a simple user interface (UI), giving operation managers instant insight into actionable information about the quality of their voice services.

2020.05.29

White Papers 2020.05.22

Testing Voice over IP (VoIP) Networks

Testing Voice over IP (VoIP) Networks

Companies are migrating land lines to voice over IP (VoIP). A growing number of businesses have replaced their Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTNs) for cheaper VoIP alternatives, but the debate over reliability is not over until you test it. VoIP used to be notorious for poor quality and dropped calls. But over time, big strides have been made, and now there are a growing list of reasons why making the change could be a productive move. In this informative white paper, Testing Voice over IP Networks, Ixia will show you the challenges and benefits of making the switch, including the network requirements for toll quality and bandwidth along with details on CODECs, jitter, packet loss and more. What you will learn; What constitutes high availability, reliability, performance and capacity tests; Testing challenges in VoIP networks; Determining what the max call setup rate should be for SIP-based devices and systems.

2020.05.22

Article Reprints 2014.11.13

Frost and Sullivan 2014 Global Instrumentation Software Market Leadership Award

Frost and Sullivan 2014 Global Instrumentation Software Market Leadership Award

Frost and Sullivan has identified Keysight as a leader in the development of robust software solutions in the test and measurement industry.

2014.11.13

White Papers 2020.05.22

SD-WAN 101: Ensuring Peak Network Performance and Service QoE

SD-WAN 101: Ensuring Peak Network Performance and Service QoE

As with any new technology, SD-WAN does not come without challenges. The network infrastructure needs to be well-tested to be able to provide the five-nines reliability required for business-critical applications. Testing robustness and ensuring security of the network is extremely critical since the cost of downtime for an enterprise network is very high. Read this paper to better understand the pre-deployment network infrastructure validation and post-deployment SLA and performance monitoring required to ensure successful SD-WAN implementations.

2020.05.22

Demo 2019-07-26

IxLoad 9.00 - GRE

IxLoad 9.00 - GRE

Demo of how to use GRE to tunnel IPv6 traffic over IPv4 networks.

2019-07-26

Hardware Options

  • “Testing enabled us to work with the provider to identify and resolve issues that could have caused problems had they not been picked up before go-live.”

    IAN MAHONEY, PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MARKS & SPENCER

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