Ixia Integrates New Plug-In Architecture to Speed Test Automation; IxScriptMate 5.10 Delivers Increased Flexibility to Create Customized Test Environments

Business Wire, Sept 8, 2005

CALABASAS, Calif. -- Ixia (Nasdaq:XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP network testing solutions, announced today significant enhancements to IxScriptMate, its primary automated network test application. The IxScriptMate 5.10 release adds the ability for customers to incorporate fully customized, turnkey test procedures that operate automatically without test operator intervention. IxScriptMate operates in conjunction with Ixia's powerful hardware test platform, enabling highly scalable testing to be executed with a minimum of test hardware. By combining Ixia's large library of turnkey tests and user-generated tests in the IxScriptMate test environment, customers can greatly simplify the process of fully automating all of their test cases.

IxScriptMate 5.10 introduces the first phase of Ixia's powerful new plug-in architecture that allows new test scripts to be directly integrated within a given test application and thereby leverage the rich features provided by the entire test environment. This modularity makes it possible for custom tests, whether developed by the Ixia Custom Engineering (ICE) team or ported from a customer's own test libraries, to be incorporated into an existing test bed in a significantly reduced amount of time. In addition, configuration of the Device Under Test (DUT) can now be executed within the test application rather than as a separate configuration activity. Together, these capabilities enable seamless control of testing from a single automation environment. Future IxScriptMate releases will further enhance the flexibility and ease of building these automated test configurations.

IxScriptMate 5.10 significantly extends the testing scope of test engineers who are tasked with ever increasing test requirements mandated by the explosive deployment of multicast technology, a technology that makes it possible for the effective distribution of video and other broadcast content in today's IP networks. The throughput, latency, and integrity of multicast data traversing the network can now be measured using IxScriptMate within its highly flexible test configurations. Ixia test hardware is used to emulate both receivers and sources in the multicast network, scaling to thousands of traffic streams and multicast groups (e.g., representing video channels) to test the limits of the DUT. And with IxScriptMate, both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast networks can be tested.

New IxScriptMate 5.10 features include:

--Highly flexible meshed data performance testing, allowing virtually any type of traffic configuration to be built up and then executed in an automated fashion

--Improved test results and report generation for IP routing tests, including pass/fail indicators and PDF report generation.

IxScriptMate 5.10 includes over 90 pre-built tests addressing a wide range of Layer 2/3 control and data test requirements. Test suites include:

--IETF RFC-based performance tests: RFC 2544, RFC 2889

--Layer 2/3 performance and functionality tests: Quality of Service (QoS), IPv4/IPv6 tunneling, data integrity, sequence checking, VLAN functionality, and error handling

--IP/MPLS routing performance and functionality tests: BGP, OSPF, IP Multicast, LDP, RSVP-TE, Layer 2 VPN (Martini), Layer 3 VPN (RFC 2547 bis), VPLS

To learn more about IxScriptMate, visit our website at: http://www.ixiacom.com/IxScriptMate.> 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 preeminent 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.

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