New city-scale network testing facility opened
-- Test & Measurement World, 3/13/2008 8:18:00 AM
IP performance test system provider Ixia announces the opening of iSimCity, a proof-of-concept lab and executive briefing center adjacent to its sales and services offices in Santa Clara, CA. The company also conducted a city-scale demonstration on assuring quality-of-experience (QoE) in high-performance, converged multiplay 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 to 100 Gbps, emulate thousands of subscribers/users, and generate millions of routes with thousands of routing peers. They can also 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.”
Ixia’s iSimCity proof-of-concept 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. What’s more, 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 to proof-of-concept test facilities and executive briefings, customers can take advantage of Ixia’s professional services and schedule third-party tests in iSimCity’s advanced lab environments.
