Ixia Custom Engineering Team Expands to Support Growing Customer Demand; Ixia ICE Team Delivers Custom Automation That Saves Time and Money

Business Wire, August 31, 2004

CALABASAS, Calif. -- Ixia (Nasdaq:XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP network testing solutions, announced today that its Ixia Custom Engineering team, also known as ICE, has added key personnel to the team to support the growing demand by customers whose products are highly complex and need fully customized solutions. ICE is being extensively utilized to develop custom, automated test solutions for such distinguished customers as Allied Telesyn, AT&T, Cisco Systems, Inc., Copper Mountain, Hitachi, HP, Nortel, NTT, Time Warner Cable, and many others.

"Copper Mountain's VantEdge supports today's complex carrier networks that must implement voice, video, and IP services," said Chris Shaver, vice president of engineering for Copper Mountain Networks. "Ixia's ICE group developed a custom script that allowed us to test these real-world scenarios in an automated environment, which enabled our testing process to be more efficient, thus reducing our testing set up time. We appreciated the development effort that the Ixia Custom Engineering team provided for us, resulting in a speedier time-to-market for our products."

ICE operates on a pre-sales and post-sales basis, providing solutions that take advantage of Ixia's flexible platform and architecture. Customers worldwide utilize the expertise of the ICE team to automate and simplify complicated test scenarios.

"Testing intelligent network devices and the networks themselves is complex and in many cases unique," said Alan Amrod, vice president of marketing for Ixia. "We have expanded the ICE team with automation specialists located at our Southern California Headquarters, in the San Francisco bay area, throughout the Eastern United States, as well as in our international operations in China and Japan, with additional resources coming soon to Europe and India. This expansion has been instrumental in allowing us to meet the growing demand of customers with highly differentiated requirements. In effect, the ICE team is a working partner for our customers, helping them achieve their development goals by exploiting the full potential of the Ixia equipment in their testbed."

In addition, the ICE team has designed extremely efficient utilities to meet the most common functional testing requirements, including tools that provide specific test setups, the execution of lower level tests, and the implementation of commonly used functions required by users. The utilities were designed with built-in flexibility so they can run as standalone solutions or be integrated with other test scripts for more complex testing scenarios.

A variety of ICE utilities are available on the Ixia web site:

--Stream-Based Setups

--Routing Protocol Algorithms

--Script Bundles

--Script Execution Schedulers

--Filter and Capture Setups

For more information about ICE services, or to request a custom script, please visit the ICE web page at http://www.ixiacom.com/solutions/ixia_custom_engineering/

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading, global provider of high performance IP network testing solutions. Its highly scalable solutions generate, capture, characterize, and emulate network and application traffic, establishing definitive performance and conformance metrics of network devices or systems under test. Ixia's testing solutions are used by Network and Telephony Equipment Manufacturers, Semiconductor Manufacturers, Service Providers, and large Enterprises to validate the functionality and reliability of complex IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's patented Real World Traffic(TM) Suite addresses the growing need to test applications and networks prior to deployment under realistic load conditions. Ixia's analysis solutions utilize a wide range of industry-standard interfaces and are distinguished by their performance, accuracy, reliability, and adaptability to the industry's constant evolution.

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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