Following is a list of recently-released features and functions for Ixia’s major software and hardware products. To download a new release, go to Ixia’s downloads and updates web page. For information on new products, contact our sales team.
Hardware updates are included for:
- Xcellon-Flex™ AP 10/40GE module
- Xcellon-Flex FE 4-port 40GE QSFP+ module
- 1G and 10G ImpairNet™ modules
- 40G, 100G, and 40/100G XOTN
Software updates are included for:
- ISIS-MT
- MEF UNI-N
- MEF UNI-C
- This release also introduces Windows 2008 Server 32-bit platform support (for single user with admin rights) for IxANVL
New Hardware Support
- Xcellon-FlexAP10/4016SQ 10GbE SFP+/ 40GE QSFP+ load module
- Xcellon-FlexFE40G4Q 40GE QSFP+
Test Suite Enhancements
- MEF 14
- UMTS Release 9 March 2010 Iu support
- UMTS Release 9 March 2010 Iub support (*)
- Diameter enhancements for STa and S6a interfaces
- GTP implementation for control of DSCP marking per tunnel endpoint
- Enhanced support for BSSAP Release 6
- LTE Access supports up to 300 Connected UEs per Card Set
- LTE Access now allows Automatic configuration by reading the BCH
- LTE Access allows Card Set Aggregation to triple UE capacity
- LTE Access no longer requires a 10MHz eNB synchronized clock
- LTE Access support for full UL HARQ operation
- LTE Access now supports all CQI reporting modes
- LTE Access offers Radio Condition modeling of UEs into Good/Med/Poor categories
- LTE Access supports Multi-Transmission Mode
- LTE Access supports CPRI 3Gbps Line Rate
- DCT User Manuals have been consolidated into 6 Manual
(*) Excluding support for dual cell and TDD
- MGTS GUI now supports M2PA emulation over IPv6 for hardshelf
- Encoder/Decoder support has been added for 3GPP MAP Release 9 TS 29.002 version 9.4.0
- Encoder/Decoder support has been added for 3GPP RANAP Release 7 protocol for IuCS and IuPS specification TS 25.413 version 7.9.0
- Encoder/Decoder support has been added for 3GPP NAS Release 7 protocol for IuCS and IuPS specifications TS 24.008 version 7.d.0
- Encoder/Decoder support has been added for 3GPP GTP Release 7 protocol for Gn specifications TS 29.060 version 7.9.0
- Encoder/Decoder support has been added for 3GPP BSSAP Release 9 protocol for A-Interface over IP specification TS 48.008 version 9.0.0
IxLoad Data
- Scalable Initiator and Target iSCSI emulation
- VDI RDP client emulations with VMWare Connection Server support
- Many HTTP enhancements
- Send chunk encoded PUT/POST from HTTP Client
- Maintains the specified number of transactions per TCP connection
- Think and Loop Command in the high performance path
- Ability to define header inclusion as a probability on per page basis on the HTTP server
- HTTP Headers provide support for sequence generators and IP sequence generators
- Ethernet Replay support on the XT80
IxLoad Voice
- VoIP support on XT80 - Advanced SIP, H.323 and Advanced RTP
- Extension to SIP for Symmetric Response Routing
- Digest Authentication Using Authentication and Key Agreement (AKA)
- FQDN resolution
- Quality of Voice using Telchemy engine
- No Call Control (NCC) Media Activity
- PESQ for PSTN
- Event Viewer supports E1/T1 plug-in VoD (part of IPTV/Video plugin) emulation on XT80
IxLoad Video
- Microsoft Silverlight Player emulation on XT80
- Redirect support for Apple HLS for playlist and segments
- “HTTP Streaming” Profile percentage in decimal
- Updated bitrate distribution of SD, HD streams for Silverlight and Apple HLS
- End of test Reports for Apple HLS and Silverlight
- Manifest Request success counter is without 302, to prevent double counting
- Track Error Conditions in Live Streaming like number of 412 response codes
- Graceful handling of 404/412 without directly closing connection
- New QoE Detective Profiles to visualize streams
- QoE Detective enhanced to process 10,000 streams in one view
- New Event Viewer introduced to find transient issues
- New Advanced Video Report to show health of streams, including Best/Worst MDI and MOS
- New Snap-shot (Per-view) capability on IPTV/Video plugin
IxLoad Attack
- DDoS Clients (Botnet) & DDoS Server simulation
- 26 DDoS attack patterns, covering L2-L4 protocols
- Attack Manager enhancements to define custom attack list and import metadata associated with user-defined attacks from CSV files
IxLoad IPsec
- Support for HTTP over IPsec on Xcellon-Ultra XT80
- CMPv2 (Certificate Management Protocol) support
- Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) support
- Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) support
- IPsec Test Reports
- Option to measure packet reordering for UDP traffic over IPsec
- Pre-fragmentation and Post-Fragmentation support on the Xcellon-Ultra XTS platform
- Dual Authentication (EAP and PreSharedKey)
IxLoad Infrastructure
- Support for the 16x10G port Xcellon-Flex AP Load Modules - HTTP, SSL, FTP/TFTP and Email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) are the support L4-7 protocols
- Support for the New XG12 Chassis
- IxVM support in IxLoad for functional testing
- Enhanced Percentage Distribution functionality to allow users to group together objectives that have similar meaning
- Real-time stats support for Test Conductor
- Improved workflow for the Resource Manager
- Protocol Emulations over MPLS (973-0115)
- WAN support for 8-Port/4-Port, 10GE Load Modules
- DHCPv4/v6 Emulation over Ethernet over ATM
- BGP-4 Update Discard Mode
- Endpoint Mesh to cater for PPP traffic
- Endpoint Mesh to cater for ATM devices
- ATM, FR or POS device support for source endpoints in traffic.
- ARP emulation enhancement – VLAN priority configuration
- PPPoX Enhancement - PPPoE MRRU tag & IPCP support DNS and WINS option
- API enhancement for Device IP addressing
New HW Support and HW Features
- Xcellon-Flex AP 10/40GE module
- Xcellon-Flex FE 4 port 40GE QSFP+ module
- 1G and 10G ImpairNet™ modules
- 40G, 100G and 40/100G XOTN
- Xcellon-Flex-AP 16-port 10GE card now supports per 4-port Aggregation (4x more CPU/Memory). Each set of 4 ports can be independently changed to Aggregation or non-Aggregation modes.
- Xdensity 32-port 10GE card will now run with other cards in the same chassis/test
New Infrastructure, Traffic, and Statistic features
- Instantaneous and Cumulative Statistics (based on IxN2X functionality)
- ATM Real Time Tx statistics up to 127 streams per port
- L23 Traffic Statistics are now persistent
- "Frames Delta" is now an option for Sorting within Flow Detective
New Broadband Access Features
- IPv6 neighbor discovery rate configuration option to control the setup rate in static IPv6 ranges
- IxNetwork now support IPTV v6 subscriber emulation (MLD)
- Unlimited redial option for failed sessions for PPPoX Client emulations
- New IGMP/MLD Client and Querier Emulation introduced in Access protocols
- PPPoX Client/Server emulation supports request/advertise only primary DNS address
- Asymmetric Data Performance QuickTest suite is introduced
New Carrier Ethernet Features
- PTP emulation add support for One-Way mode
- PTP (IEEE 1588) and ESMC (SyncE) is supported on the Xcellon-Flex AP 10/40G Combo load module
- PTP emulation provides the option to configure the IP Priority of the PTP messages supporting ToS and DiffServ supporting both IPv4 and IPv6
- ESMC (SyncE) support has been added for the HSE40GE, HSE100GE and HSE 40/100GE load modules
- E-LMI emulation has been added based on MEF 16 standard UNI-N and UNI-C emulation is supported.
- ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet Service Activation QuickTest is introduced
New Data Center Features
- IxNetwork now supports Multi-Topology for the DCE-ISIS protocol emulation
- IxNetwork now supports the FCoE performance benchmark QuickTests, which include the FCoE Max No-Drop Throughput performance test and the FCoE Max No-Pause (PFC) Throughput performance test
- IxNetwork now supports the IEEE 802.1Qaz version of DCBX
- DCB and FCoE protocols are now supported on the Xcellon-Flex Combo 10/40GE Accelerated Performance load module and the Xcellon-Flex 4 x 40GE Full Emulation load module
- IxNetwork DCBX emulation now allows the user to configure and advertise up to eight (8) Protocol IDs in the Application TLV
New Impairment Features
- IxNetwork 6.10EA fully integrates the new 1G and 10G Ethernet Impairment Load Modules into the GUI
New IxReporter Features
- New Data Analysis features including drag-and-drop data browser
- The IxReporter report wizard now provides the ability to multi-select several test runs and generate each report or generate a combined report
- IxReporter provides enhancements to table and chart formatting options
- IxReporter now provides the ability to compress and de-compress result files saving 80-90% of required disk space when compressed
- IxReporter adds a new Archive feature which saves all related results files into a single archive file (shareable)
New MPLS/Routing/Switching Features
- Support working Pseudowire (PW) switchover to protect PW with nested protection on LSP, using BFD or Y.1731 continuity check
- "Re-advertise Routes" is introduced to force BGP routes re-advertisement with new attributes or new number of routes
- Advertise BGP routes with Ixia proprietary signature in the 'Optional Transit Attribute'
- A "filtered view" for Protocol Interfaces is now available
New QuickTest Features
- Asymmetric Data Performance QuickTest suite is introduced
- ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet Service Activation QuickTest is introduced
- FCoE performance benchmark QuickTest, which includes the FCoE Max No-Drop Throughput performance test and the FCoE Max No-Pause (PFC) Throughput performance test
New Test Composer Features
- Autoscroll functionality in Debug mode GUI: The application was enhanced so as to be capable of automatically scrolling in the Debug mode window to the step that is currently executing
- GUI Indicator to see pass/fail for current Test: The application was enhanced so that the status bar at the bottom of the GUI shows the status of the currently active test
- IxNetwork Test Compose GetValue command enhancements
New IxVM Features
- IxVM now supports the KVM hypervisor running over RHEL/CentOS 5.6 as the host operating system
- IxVM now supports RHEL/CentOS 5.6 guest operating systems
- IxVM now supports Data Capture mode, in addition to Control Capture mode
Xcellon-Flex Load Modules
- Xcellon-FlexAP10/4016SQ
- Xcellon-FlexFE40G4Q
IxOS
- Comprehensive load module information is available through Card Properties dialog in IxExplorer: Serial Number, Manufacturing Date Code, Assembly Part Number and Revision, Options, and FPGA versions.
IxVM
- Supports the ability to generate random content in the Data Payload section of a packet when configuring a traffic stream
- The Random UDF function is now supported on the IxVM modules
- The following Random Packet Size
- Tracking Checksum Error statistics on a per-PGID basis is now supported on the IxVM load modules
- Packet capture support has been added for IxVM ports
- Random Mode has been added to UDF mode selection
- Supports IxLoad on VMware
- Support for real-time IxLoad statistics
- Autoscroll functionality in Debug mode
- Session ID Parameterization
- GUI Indicator to see pass/fail for current test
- GetValue command enhancements
- ShowMessage command to support user entered input during test execution
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A major industry milestone was reached on June 6th when the Network Test Automation Forum’s (NTAF) first specifications were approved unanimously by forum members. Ixia is a founding member of NTAF -- an organization dedicated to promoting interoperability of testing tools for the data communications and telecommunications industry -- and has been a leader in driving these standards to completion. Earlier in the month, NTAF held its first annual board meeting in Washington DC. Highlights of that meeting included:
- The newly-elected board taking over from the old board of directors. Ixia continues to play a significant role, holding one of the 4 elected officer positions on the board.
- A live demonstration by the NTAF technical committee, showcasing interoperability of tools from 4 vendors.
- Ixia demonstrating NTAF-based consumer as well as provider solutions. Ixia also demonstrated an NTAF specification-based Test Conductor solution seamlessly controlling Ixia’s IxN2X product line, as well as products from other forum members
- Ixia’s Kenneth Green being recognized (by unanimous vote!) for his initiative, and being awarded the NTAF “champion award” for his leadership and contributions to the NTAF specifications.
The NTAF specifications define mechanisms for network entities (whether lab equipment or software automation tool harnesses) to publish information that will allow other entities to integrate with them and control them. The specifications also describe how these entities can register themselves and discover other NTAF entities that may be available within their environment. Broad adoption of these standards will enable comprehensive test automation, speeding development time and allowing customers to get high quality products to market quickly. So what’s next for NTAF? One area of focus is network lab topology management, where NTAF will look to leverage the work done by the TesLA alliance. The TesLA specifications have already been submitted for review by the NTAF technical committee. Another key focus is driving adoption of the new specifications. Ixia already has a head-start on this, having demonstrated both consumer and provider NTAF-based solutions, and will continue to lead the way. For more information, please check out the Ixia NTAF FAQ or visit the NTAF website.