News Highlights
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Internet traffic continues to grow exponentially with the swift rise in mixed-media downloads, video streaming, peer-to-peer sharing, wireless usage and traffic aggregation.
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Ixia enables 6WIND to fully test against various traffic mixes relevant to the gamut of network environments, including the type of traffic unique to SDN and NFV applications, which are increasingly important to 6WIND as it serves customers in these growing markets.
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Through Ixia’s solutions, 6WIND is able to fully stress its fast path software architecture that includes functions such as IPsec, TCP, PPPoE, NAT and OVS acceleration. 6WIND verifies performance levels that reach hundreds of Gbps, millions of TCP connections and low latency.
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Using Ixia’s IxNetwork and IxLoad, 6WINDis able to emulate the highest rate of network traffic over platforms in order to fully stress and validate underlying software.
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IxNetwork enables 6WIND to conduct large-scale network infrastructure, capacity, scalability and convergence testing while also providing rapid isolation of any network issues.
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IxLoad provides the next level of testing by emulating data, voice and video to comprehensively test application delivery platforms.
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“We’re providing our customers with the highest performance networking solutions that accelerate Linux packet processing on multicore platforms. To do that, we require the highest performing traffic generators to develop, test and demonstrate our products,” said Vincent Jardin, CTO, 6WIND. “In order to benchmark the latest releases of our software, we need best-in-class Layer 4 through 7 test equipment and Ixia is our vendor of choice.”
“Today’s high performance networks carry a wide range of traffic types at high capacity and require an increasingly robust infrastructure,” said Michael Haugh, Product Marketing Manager, Ixia. “6WIND is a market leader in data plane processing, so we’re delighted that it has selected our traffic generation technology to enable the delivery of gold standard software to service providers and equipment manufacturers needing to scale complex networks.” Read More 'Ixia Empowers 6WIND to Deliver High Performance Packet Processing for Software-Defined Networks'
