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Ixia Announces the Next Generation of Its Optixia Test Platform; The Optixia XM Test System Boasts the Highest 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Port Density in the Industry While Maintaining Backward Compatibility With Existing Ixia Platforms and Applications

Posted on: Monday, 24 July 2006, 18:00 CDT

Ixia (Nasdaq:XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, today introduced the next addition to its Optixia(R) product line -- the Optixia XM test system and Optixia XM12 chassis. With ultra-high Ethernet port density -- 144 GbE or 36 -- 10 GbE ports per 17.5 inch tall chassis -- the new system delivers the highest test port density available today. To meet the increasing demands of equipment vendors producing and service providers deploying Ethernet networks worldwide, the Optixia XM evolves Ixia's award-winning Optixia product line while maintaining backward compatibility with previous Optixia systems and software to ease customer migration.

An April report from industry research firm Infonetics confirms massive demand for Ethernet in corporate and consumer networks.

"Corporate traffic continues to grow unabated, still doubling in many carrier networks each year; corporations are seeking solutions with greater headroom that provide more bandwidth at a smaller price per bit, and the natural answer is Ethernet," said Michael Howard, principal with Infonetics. "In addition service providers are deploying metro Ethernet to satisfy customer demand and to simplify their networks so they can carry the fast growing data traffic while handling TDM traffic."

In the face of fast growing network traffic demands, service providers worldwide are moving to Ethernet due to its ubiquity, cost advantages, and ease of deployment. The new Optixia XM12 addresses the growing needs of equipment manufacturers and service providers to execute high performance, high density testing of Ethernet-based network equipment for rollout into metro networks. The Optixia XM12's high density ultimately benefits users by reducing lab space for test equipment, lowering power requirements, and simplifying management of testing resources -- all contributing to lowering testing implementation costs.

In addition to high density Ethernet, the Optixia XM system supports the common wide area network interfaces in use today, enabling carriers to test their current infrastructure as they migrate to pure IP over Ethernet. The Optixia XM12 chassis supports all the interface and application-specific modules available today on the Optixia X16 chassis through use of an adapter module. These include OC-3/12/48/192 POS, OC-3/12 ATM, Power over Ethernet, the Encryption Load Module for IPSec, and the Application Load Module for high performance application layer traffic. Together, these modules provide the resources needed for executing comprehensive Real World Traffic(TM) testing -- encompassing data, signalling, voice, video, and application traffic -- from Layers 2-7 in a single test platform.

The ultimate demand placed on IP performance test systems today comes from the need to test different application types together to gain a true understanding of how converged networks -- supporting data, video, and VoIP services -- will respond in varying conditions. The Optixia XM is optimized for the high performance requirements of such multi-services testing with an increased speed backplane, testing-optimized software environment, and a processor on every network interface port. This architecture delivers a platform for comprehensive performance and functional testing from Layer 2-7 using Ixia's Aptixia family of test applications.

"The Optixia XM is a significant evolution of the Optixia product line we introduced more than four years ago. The scalability and performance requirements of our customers continue to grow as larger networks are rolled out, and we have responded with a test platform that will take them into the future," said Errol Ginsberg, Ixia President and CEO. "Fundamental to the Optixia XM design is its adherence to our core design principles -- providing a single test platform for comprehensive Layer 2-7 testing, and maintaining compatibility with Ixia's existing products to ease customer migration without forklift upgrades."

The Optixia XM test system will be available in Q3'2006. For more information, see: http://www.ixiacom.com/optixiaxm12.

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading provider of performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services. 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 test systems are used by Network and Telephony Equipment Manufacturers, Semiconductor Manufacturers, Service Providers, Governments, and Enterprises to validate the functionality and reliability of complex IP networks, devices, and applications. Ixia's Triple Play test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions. Ixia's vision is to be the world's pre-eminent provider of solutions to enable testing of next generation IP Triple Play networks. Ixia's test systems utilize a wide range of industry-standard interfaces, including Ethernet, SONET, ATM, and wireless connectivity, 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, Optixia, Aptixia are registered trademarks or trademarks of Ixia. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Source: Business Wire

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