"Ixia's large-scale testing capability enabled us to increase our VIPRION test coverage and achieve our optimal goals, while reducing the overall amount of test equipment required," said Karen Jester, senior director of product management, F5 Networks.

Validating VIPRION's scalability requires a sophisticated and scalable test platform. Ixia's Application Delivery test solution, which is comprised of its XM12 hardware platform and its premier layer 7 IxLoad(TM) test application, delivers the industry's highest density 10 Gbps line-rate with layer 7 traffic. IxLoad uses real-world subscriber modelling to accurately simulate typical traffic patterns that flow through data centers. Ixia will use IxLoad and the XM12 chassis to demonstrate VIPRION's performance by generating high volumes of converged services traffic simultaneously, including HTTP, SSL, P2P, RTSP and Microsoft SharePoint.

"Demonstrating F5's VIPRION ADC platform with Ixia's Application Delivery test solution was an opportunity we couldn't pass up," said Anupam Sahai, vice president of Marketing, Ixia. "As applications continue to grow in complexity, ADCs become vital to data center operations and our realistic tests are being used to power the VIPRION performance demonstration at Interop."

About F5 Networks

F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking. F5 provides solutions that make applications secure, fast, and available for everyone. By adding intelligence and manageability into the network to offload applications and optimize the data storage layer, F5 extends the power of intelligent networking to all levels of application delivery. F5's extensible architecture intelligently integrates application optimization, protects the application and the network, and delivers application reliability. Over 16,000 organizations and service providers worldwide trust F5 to keep their applications running. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington with offices worldwide. For more information, go to www.f5.com.

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading provider of IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for IP-based infrastructure and services. Ixia's test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments, and enterprises to validate the capabilities and reliability of complex IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's triple play test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

For more information, contact Ixia at 26601 W. Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302; (818) 871-1800, Fax: (818) 871-1805; Email: info@ixiacom.com or visit our Web Site at http://www.ixiacom.com.

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"MLD is a crucial enabling technology that will allow 100 GbE links to be carried over available fiber - now and in the foreseeable future," said Errol Ginsberg, founder and chief innovation officer of Ixia. "We felt it was imperative that we provide this essential technology early in the standards cycle; this was made possible by Ixia's early involvement in the IEEE 100 GbE /40 GbE standards development effort. Our implementation proves that MLD is a viable architecture that can be implemented with today's technology."

In July 2006, the IEEE 802.3 formed a Higher Speed Study Group (HSSG) to define the objectives for the standards. In December 2007, the HSSG formally became the IEEE 802.3ba task force, with the goal of creating standards for implementing 100 Gbps and 40 Gbps data rates over optical fiber and copper cables. Ixia has been working in the HSSG and 802.3ba task force from its inception and is committed to supporting efforts to reach an industry-wide standard. The Ixia demonstration will showcase the operation and testing of a 100 GbE link based on the current state of IEEE standardization efforts.

"Driven by growing video traffic and more powerful server architectures, bandwidth requirements are growing for both the computing and networking applications, and the next generation of Ethernet will define 40 Gbps and 100 Gbps to address these needs," said John D'Ambrosia, IEEE P802.3ba task force chair, and senior research scientist at Force10 Networks. "Ixia's commitment to creating a high performance testing environment for these higher speeds of Ethernet will enable vendors to deliver more reliable equipment and increase the early adoption of 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet technology."

"Network equipment manufacturers are responding to the need for more bandwidth and are already working on pre-standard, 100 GbE products. Therefore, it's vital that they be able to test their equipment before it is deployed in data centers," said Atul Bhatnagar, Ixia's president and CEO. "By demonstrating our ability to generate and analyze 100 GbE traffic, we're not only helping to advance the technology, but also reinforcing our testing leadership."

Ixia's 100 GbE proof-of-concept demonstration is the first technology innovation developed by the newly formed Ixia Labs. Ginsberg, the company's founder, chairman of the board and chief innovation officer, heads Ixia Labs.

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading provider of IP service verification platforms and performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services. Ixia's test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments, and enterprises to validate the capabilities and reliability of complex IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

For more information, contact Ixia at 26601 W. Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302; (818) 871-1800, Fax: (818) 871-1805; Email: info@ixiacom.com or visit our Web Site at http://www.ixiacom.com.

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PBT is considered a viable option for service providers looking to replace legacy transport services such as frame-relay, ATM and SONET/SDH with Ethernet technology in their next-generation metro and medium-haul networks. PBT can be used as an alternative or complementary service to MPLS. Because it is service agnostic, for other access technologies.

"It's encouraging to have Ixia's solution certified as interoperable with other Ecosystem implementations, especially during a time when we are seeing great interest in multi-vendor solutions for Carrier Ethernet in general and PBT in particular," said Mike Adams, vice president of strategy and architecture, Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel. "Considering Ixia's functional, performance and scalability testing capabilities, they're in a good position to help advance the industry. As a solution, Ethernet is cost effective, simple to use, and can grow network capacity with demand."

Network equipment vendors implementing the protocol need emulation-based tests in order to validate their products. Ixia's PBT/PBB-TE emulation includes provider backbone bridging (IEEE 802.1ah) on the data plane and Ethernet CFM (IEEE 802.1ag or ITU-T Y.1731) on the control plane. Ixia provides full PBT/PBT-TE-specific configuration and statistics for both the data plane and the control plane.

Ixia supports the full range of continuity check intervals (CCIs), including the two fastest -- 3.33 ms and 10 ms -- which are required to test and ensure sub-50 ms recovery capability in the data plane. In addition, a hardware-based last-out/first-in time stamping of packets provides high resolution latency measurements.

"We have strongly supported the Carrier Ethernet Ecosystem's efforts to advance core and metro network technologies like Q-in-Q and MAC-in-MAC as well as PBT/PBB-TE," said Atul Bhatnagar, president and CEO of Ixia. "Many of our service provider customers have shown interest in PBT as a metro area alternative to MPLS and because of our experience with the technology we can now offer the first full implementation of the protocol."

Ixia demonstrated the interoperability of its PBT solution with Nortel and as many as nine other PBT equipment vendors at the European Advanced Networking Test Center's (EANTC) live test events for the Carrier Ethernet World Congress in 2007 and the MPLS and Ethernet World Congress in 2008.

The latest IxNetwork release builds on the solution's proven architecture, with additions in the area of protocols, authentication, broadband access and stateful testing. Productivity improvements have been made throughout IxNetwork, with marked improvements to workflow, automation, application traffic and statistics.

The portable XM2 two-slot chassis used in the Nortel certification is part of Ixia's ultra-high-density, flexible XM platform. Ixia's XM interfaces support complete layer 2-7 network and application testing capability and 1 GbE and 10 GbE line rates.

Ixia will have its PBT solution at NXTcomm08 from June 17-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas. Visitors to the show are invited to contact their representatives to arrange an appointment. Press and analysts can arrange a meeting via the contacts listed below.

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading provider of IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for IP-based infrastructure 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 IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

For more information, contact Ixia at 26601 W. Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302; 818-871-1800, Fax: 818-871-1805; Email: info@ixiacom.com or visit our Web Site at http://www.ixiacom.com.

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Isocore, a leading technology validation and certification laboratory, used Ixia's P2P solution to validate quality of service (QoS) performance of 10 Gbps application-aware devices. Application-layer forwarding is a very complex and resource-intensive task, making it critical to validate performance at line rates up to 10 Gbps.

"The P2P emulation provided by IxLoad simplifies the creation of real world test environment for verifying inline DPI solutions," said Rajiv Papneja, director of Isocore. "The intuitive user interface, coupled with the capability to emulate many P2P flows in addition to built-in set of libraries further simplifies the usage and test configurations."

Despite the negative connotation of P2P, it is a very efficient and resilient method of distributing content over IP networks. Increasingly, content providers are beginning to use peer-peer distribution technology to distribute popular commercial fare such as video. One such content provider is TVBank, based in Japan, focused on video content acquisition and video streaming systems.

Ixia provides an intuitive solution enabling engineers to simply turn a dial to scale up subscriber and bandwidth load. In addition, Ixia's P2P emulation capabilities mimic a variety of P2P traffic flows at user-defined parameters, including numbers of peers, connection rates, concurrent connections, and throughput.

"IxLoad offers an elegant mechanism for modeling the dynamic nature of subscribers, thereby ensuring complete test realism," said Anupam Sahai, Ixia's vice president of Marketing. "The ability to dial to scale, combined with the ability to measure QoE on a per-subscriber basis, makes IxLoad's P2P emulation capabilities a valuable solution for validating service delivery networks."

IxLoad 4.0 is a highly scalable, integrated test solution for assessing the performance of multiplay networks and application-aware devices such as load balancers, firewalls, cache engines and security devices equipped with DPI technology. IxLoad creates a truly converged traffic mix to measure the effectiveness of application-aware devices at peak performance levels.

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading provider of IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for IP-based infrastructure 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 IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

For more information, contact Ixia at 26601 W. Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302; (818) 871-1800, Fax: (818) 871-1805; Email: info@ixiacom.com or visit our Web Site at http://www.ixiacom.com.

Ixia, IxLoad, and the Ixia four-petal logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Ixia. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This material is for informational purposes only and subject to change without notice. It describes Ixia's present plans to develop and make available to its customers certain products, features and capabilities. Ixia is only obligated to provide those deliverables specifically included in a written agreement between Ixia and the customer.

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