IxLoad Data Test Solution

Validate that application service meets customer expectations

Problem: Endangered QoE for End User Data Applications

In today’s highly competitive landscape, organizations must meet stringent network quality requirements to deliver the best customer experience. However, a widening array of applications and an increasing number of users, is making it harder—and more expensive—than ever to ensure high-quality end-user experience across converged multiplay services and application delivery platforms.

Solution: A Comprehensive Test Solution for Data Application Delivery Platforms

Keysight’s IxLoad Data test solution delivers the industry’s most scalable and flexible solution for testing high-performance application-aware devices and networks. Network operators now have the means to measure independent- and multi-protocol performance, session capacity, and transaction latencies of applications and data center infrastructures in a single integrated platform.

Key features

• Test the scalability and performance of application-aware networks and devices by emulating HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, SSL – including TLS 1.3, FTP, and Email clients and servers as well as NAS/SAN/Cloud Storage, DataCenter testing, and Database sessions
• Test the performance limits and long-term stability of content-aware devices such as application delivery controllers, web servers, firewalls, web caches, and WAN acceleration devices 
• Measure the ability of a multiservice transport network to deliver data, voice, and video by intermixing data traffic with delay- and jitter-sensitive multimedia traffic

Product Capabilities

Data application protocols

IxLoad delivers a wide variety of fully stateful web, data transfer, email, database, and storage protocols to emulate a complete multiplay user environment. Combined with the CloudStorm or PerfectStorm hardware platforms, IxLoad delivers unprecedented scale and performance. In addition, IxLoad’s comprehensive network support, advanced test timelines, and automatic goal seek capabilities enables users to comprehensively assess the performance of their service delivery networks and determine application-level performance in a single integrated solution.

Playlist

Playlist is an IxLoad infrastructure feature that is used to sequence through a contiguous list of items such as filenames, usernames/passwords, web pages, DNS queries. The playlist is a CSV file that typically contains columns with contiguous data. IxLoad supports the playlist functionality for selected protocols like HTTP, SSL, and DNS, and selected fields of those protocols.

Random data generation engine

Random Data Generation Engine (RDGE) enables user to generate traffic with varying randomness and compressibility to stress different components of WAN optimizers and caching devices such as CPU, disk, and memory. IxLoad supports the RDGE functionality for selected protocols like those for HTTP and Storage.