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Testing Routing and Switching

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Testing of routing and switching devices becomes more and more complex as the scale of the Internet grows along with the power and breadth of the core and edge routers used for the vast volume of traffic. Requirements for private networks, multiplay delivery, and resiliency have mandated the need for a wide variety of protocols. Testing routing and switching requires a test system capable of emulating millions of client endpoints and the millions of traffic flows necessary to accurately measure performance. Ixia's Aptixia IxNetwork has proven its ability to fully test the largest Internet routers.

Increased traffic volume also means large-scale switches and routers with many 1 GbE and 10 GbE interfaces. Ixia's XM12 chassis and Ethernet interfaces provide the port scaling needed for modern devices: 192 ports of 1GbE or 96 ports of 10 GbE in a single 10U chassis.

Ixia TV

High Density Switch Testing with Force 10 (00:03:27) - May, 2009

Alexis McDougall interviews John Johnston, Ixia Technical Marketing Engineer, discussing use of IxNetwork 5.40 to conduct the world's higest density 10GBase-T switch test.

Scale Your Networks to New Heights (00:03:02) - May, 2009

Alexis McDougall interviews Aniket Khosla, Ixia Product Manager, discussing the use of IxNetwork to verify SLA performance in a real-world traffic environment

Interview with Mansour Karam of Arastra (00:02:41) - May, 2008

Atul Bhatnagar, President of Ixia discusses how Arastra used Ixia equipment to test their high performance switches.

Library

White Papers

Router Testing with Real-World Emulation - explores the reasons why scalability during device and network testing is essential. Demonstrates the need for scalability for testing IPv4/IPv6 networks, testing multicast VPN scenarios, testing carrier-class switches and routers and testing with stateful traffic.
Isocore Report - Maximum Routing Scaling for IPv4 and IPv6 (139.22 KB ) - Isocore verified the scalability of the Ixia Gigabit Ethernet LSM1000XMV16 GigE LAN Service Module in a real-word test environment.
Multicast: Conformance and Peformance Testing - discusses multicast protocols and how IxANVL and IxAutomate are used to test them.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Conformance and Performance Testing - details the BGP protocols, their history and how Ixia hardware platforms and applications are used to test BGP networks.
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF): Conformance and Performance Testing - discusses the maturation of OSPF and testing challenges associated with OSPF networks. Test plans are detailed.
Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS): Conformance and Performance Testing - describes the uses of MPLS in core networks, associated complexities and testing approaches. Test examples, using Ixia products, are also described.
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6): Conformance and Performance Testing - explores the far-ranging affects of IPv6 on all routing protocols, along with the IPv4/IPv6 tunneling alternatives. The available Ixia conformance and performance tests are described.

Datasheets

Application Traffic over Routes - describes how IxNetwork can be used to test routers and other intelligent devices with stateful traffic.
IP Multicast Emulation Software - describes how IxNetwork is the most comprehensive tools for testing scalability and performance of multicast routers.
IPv6 Emulation Software - describes how IxNetwork is used to test mixed IPv4/IPv6 routers.
Layer 2 Emulation Software - describes how IxNetwork provides emulation for MPLS Layer 2 VPNs.

Test Plans

Brochures

Extreme Scalability (959.03 KB ) - Router Testing with Real-World Emulation - explores the reasons why scalability during device and network testing is essential. Illustrates the need for scalability for IPv4/IPv6 networks, multicast VPN scenarios, carrier-class routers and stateful traffic.
Ixia Testing Solutions (2.77 MB ) - discusses Ixia's testing solutions for switching and routing, Triple Play delivery, IMS, data center operations, Carrier Ethernet, network assessment, and broadband access performance and conformance.
Ixia Platform (1.06 MB ) - the Ixia chassis and load modules used to generate line-rate traffic and capture results.

Poster

Router Testing with Real-World Emulation (18.13 MB )

Presentations

Solutions

IxANVL - automatically validate network/protocol compliance and interoperability. IxANVL provides a conformance suite for testing Metro Ethernet Forum 9 requirements.

IxAutomate - automates performance, scalability, and functional testing of network devices. IxAutomate includes scripts to test service attributes defined in MEF 14. Additional tests are included, which may be used to qualify the underlying Carrier Ethernet technologies, such as LACP.

IxNetwork - characterizes the performance and scalability of routers and switches. IxNetwork includes the facilities for testing Ethernet OAM and CFM, BFD, and bridging and routing protocols.

IxExplorer - interactively tests the capabilities and performance of all network devices. Tests MEF 9, MEF 14 and Ethernet CFM and OAM functionality.

Ixia Platform (Chassis/Load Modules) - the Ixia chassis and load modules used to generate line-rate traffic and capture results.

News and Press