Telenor Deploys Ixia Service Verification Platform to Guarantee Quality IP-Based Services for Scandinavian Business Customers

Business Wire, June 2, 2008

New Service Actively Monitors Live, Next-Generation Networks

CALABASAS, Calif. -- Ixia (NASDAQ:XXIA), a leading global provider of IP performance test systems, today announced that Telenor (OSE:TEL), a major telecommunications services provider headquartered in Norway, has deployed Ixia's IxRave[TM] IP service verification platform to measure the true end-to-end performance of its enterprise layer 3 VPN (L3 VPN) networks and services. Telenor provides enterprise-quality converged services to business customers in Scandinavia. The company will use IxRave to guarantee network reliability and customer satisfaction.

"Telenor was looking for a solution to actively monitor our next-generation IP backbone network and new services such as IP telephony," said Ingrid R. Lorange, vice president, Telenor, Operations Norway. "We selected Ixia's IxRave because it provides 24/7 monitoring of service quality -- from end to end -- at both the network and service layer. As a result, we are able to spot and correct any issue before a customer is aware of it."

IxRave permits Telenor to remotely perform end-to-end application testing to verify its customers' quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE). Inexpensive probes and virtual endpoints enable Telenor to quickly identify any issues and determine if a fault is in the network (edge and core) or in the access segment (edge to customer premises), and then verify that corrective action has resolved an issue.

IxRave also enables Telenor to quickly and remotely measure complex service level agreement (SLA) metrics and verify SLA commitments on demand -- even before those services are turned up. Legacy passive monitoring probes, in contrast, can indicate the health of a network at critical points, but they cannot measure end-to-end performance as a customer experiences it.

"IxRave makes use of Telenor's existing operations support systems for network management, plus its customer information databases, thereby creating a comprehensive, integrated monitoring platform," said Neal Roche, vice president of Converged Service Verification at Ixia. "Telenor's customers benefit by knowing they will always receive the correct bandwidth and QoS from end to end."

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 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.

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