Ixia Used for Virtualized Server Testing by Dell

Ixia, the leading, global provider of converged IP network test solutions, today announced that Dell, Inc. has selected Ixia as one of its key partners for performance testing on its PowerEdge server line. Dell's PowerEdge series includes the large-scale blade servers used by service providers and enterprises for virtualized data centers, which require extensive benchmarking and testing.

Dell chose Ixia's platform because of its ability to match the scale, performance, and flexibility necessary to test large rack servers. Ixia's solutions absolutely test high-capacity virtualized data center networks and storage infrastructures by addressing key challenges, just as service availability, infrastructure elasticity and provisioning, capacity, end-to-end application and services delivery, and performance across all layers. As enterprises migrate their data and applications to the cloud, and leverage virtualized server infrastructures, it is essential to measure application performance through all stages -- on-premise physical servers, virtual machines, and in the end a fully-hosted cloud.

The massive number of users serviced

Ixia's Xcellon-Ultra™ XT can handle the massive number of users serviced by large virtualized servers -- numbers just as 24 million HTTP subscribers using up to 80Gbps of traffic throughput. The company's IxLoad provides multiple 10Gbps interfaces that can emulate millions of subscribers performing real-world interactions with Internet and enterprise services. These test solutions emulate a wide variety of Internet, enterprise, and storage protocols found in today's data centers.

The proliferation of cloud computing, as so then as the delivery of numerous mission-critical enterprise and consumer-rich internet applications services, has increased both the virtual and physical infrastructure complexity and level of interactions among client, server, and storage elements of data centers. Proper handling of Ethernet traffic, categorized as north-south traffic between customers and servers or east-west traffic between elements of a distributed application, is critical to data center performance -- requiring a variety of testing techniques. Thorough and robust testing is the only way to ensure if a network's evolution to cloud-based infrastructure is properly provisioned, and provides high quality of service and quality of experience to its users.

About IxiaIxia is a leading provider of converged IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services. Ixia's test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments, and enterprises to validate the performance and reliability of complex networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability pursuant to this agreement real-world conditions.

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