Ixia Acquires Wireless Test Company and Introduces IxWLAN Test Suite for 802.11 Testing; IxWLAN Solution Extends Ixia's Proven Triple Play Test Suites to 802.11 Interfaces

Business Wire, July 18, 2005

CALABASAS, Calif. -- Ixia (Nasdaq:XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP network testing solutions, today introduced IxWLAN(TM), a comprehensive new family of tools focused on 802.11 capacity and performance testing. The new product line is a result of the acquisition of privately-held Communication Machinery Corporation (CMC). The Santa Barbara, California-based team is recognized for its expertise in developing tools for testing 802.11a/b/g networks and equipment. The team's strong technical leadership is reflected in five pending patents critical to wireless testing.

IxWLAN offers a set of test solutions that combine CMC's 802.11 station emulation and security expertise with Ixia's market-leading traffic generation and functional test applications, such as IxChariot(TM), IxExplorer(R), IxLoad(TM), IxVoice(TM), and IxVerify(TM).

"Ixia continues to execute on its strategy of integrating companies with proven technology that enable us to extend the capabilities of our single platform solution and gain access to new customer segments. The introduction of IxWLAN is a direct result of our acquisition of CMC, opening up the first of several high growth wireless test markets for Ixia," said Cliff Hannel, vice president acquisitions and strategy for Ixia. "The IxWLAN offering allows us to immediately provide a competitive solution for the testing needs of 802.11 equipment manufacturers, service providers, and enterprises."

IxWLAN is the industry's first portable open-air and cabled RF test solution providing repeatable WLAN tests with full 802.11i support, making it an ideal tool for WLAN engineering organizations and service deployment teams of Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) and Fortune 500 companies. Complex performance test scenarios can be fully automated with IxWLAN to dramatically reduce the test time of WLAN access points, switches, and entire 802.11 networks. By leveraging Ixia's existing applications, IxWLAN can perform triple-play testing using voice, video and data traffic.

The technology at the heart of the IxWLAN product has a demonstrated market leadership position with hundreds of installed solutions and more than 90 customers worldwide, and recently received the prestigious "Best of Show" award at N I Tokyo 2005.

To learn more about IxWLAN, visit: http://www.ixiacom.com/ixwlan

Product Now Available: IxWLAN

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 vision is to be the world's pre-eminent provider of solutions to enable testing of these "utility-grade" IP networks. 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.

Ixia, the Ixia four petal logo, and IxExplorer are registered trademarks of Ixia; IxWLAN, IxLoad, IxVoice, IxVerify, and IxChariot are trademarks of Ixia. Unless otherwise indicated, other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.