Aptixia IxLoad is a highly scalable, integrated test solution for assessing the performance of Triple Play networks and devices. IxLoad emulates IPTV and Triple Play subscribers and associated protocols to ensure subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE). Protocols supported include video protocols like IGMP, MLD, and RTSP; voice protocols like SIP and MGCP; and data protocols like HTTP, FTP, and SMTP. In addition, IxLoad can be used to test critical aspects of the infrastructure like DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, and LDAP services, as well generate malicious traffic to test for security.

• Emulate Real World Traffic using Ixia’s highly scalable Optixia test platform
• Support for running Data, Voice and Video protocols simultaneously to emulate triple play subscriber environment
• Flexible framework offering in depth functionality including local Resource Manager for component reusability, Getting Started for quick access to previous tests and results, and drag-drop and integrated automation capabilities
• Support for video quality metrics (TVQM, MDI) and voice quality scores (MOS) per session
• Built-in impairment - ability to introduce latency, jitter, packet drops, duplicate, reorder, and apply fragmentation at source
• Built-in packet capture and analyzer with ability to play media packet payloads in a media player
• Traffic mapping - Ability to configure the IP addresses and VLANs that will send and receive traffic to and from each other
• Support for real-time packet captures with filtering and ladder diagrams for analysis
• Capture file replay - ability to replay user-specified packet captures from Ixia test ports
• Support for IPv4 and IPv6
• Link layer protocols like PPPoE, IPSec and DHCP
• Automatic goal seeking of test objectives. Goal seeking metrics include concurrent connections, connection rate, simulated users and throughput
• Real World network configurations - multiple sub-networks, unique MAC addresses, 802.1q, 802.1p and emulated router support
• Real World user behavior using Think times, configurable responses, impairment etc.
• Standard Linux TCP stack
• Ramp-up, ramp-down user sessions - linear, step and adaptive modes
• Extensive statistics and reports
• Fully customizable statistics viewer, with advanced graphing capabilities
• Option to automatically log all collected statistics
• Integrated report generation
  
  

• Ixia Load Modules
• Microsoft Windows (including VistaqWAVE)
• UNIX (Linux, Solaris, and others)
• Windows CE and Embedded Linux
• and many more…
  
  Protocols supported
  
• TCP, UDP, RTP, IPX, SPX
• IPv4, IPv6
• IP Multicast