Solutions Overview

Ixia Solutions Overview

An always-on, always-available internet experience has fundamentally changed the way we do business. Networks are no longer simply connected machines providing bits and bytes of uncomplicated data. They are now vast multitechnological powerhouses with global reach that provide media of all types. We rely on these networks to reach other people, other places, and other businesses.

Ixia solutions accelerate innovation to connect and secure the digital world. Our test, visibility, and security solutions strengthen physical, virtual, and cloud networks. Our solutions emulate realistic media-rich traffic and network conditions so that customers can optimize and validate the design, performance, and security of their pre-deployment and production networks. Ixia’s solutions are used across all network types and designs, from enterprises and government agencies to service providers and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs).

Ixia’s customers benefit from faster time to market, optimized application performance, and higher-quality deployments, ensuring that their networks run stronger.

Ixia was founded in 1997 as an individual company and then acquired by Keysight Technologies in 2018. We use our vast expertise in working with our customers to help them meet their networking goals:

• Ixia test solutions provide an end-to-end approach for organizations to test devices and systems prior to deployment and assess the performance of cloud and onpremises networks and data centers after upgrades or changes. To verify new service implementation, new device insertion, or network expansion, Ixia test solutions help organizations perform extensive predeployment testing to ensure current network functions are not compromised. This testing must be high capacity and must simulate network and application oversubscription to stress network upgrades to their limits.

• Ixia security solutions allow organizations to assess network security and resilience by testing and validating network and security devices with real-world application traffic and attacks.

• Organizations can perform assessments before production deployment and in live networks to establish ongoing best practices that harden security by assessing individual devices, networks, and data centers. In operation, Ixia solutions monitor traffic—clear text and encrypted—to keep malware out, enable security tools to be more efficient by filtering out known bad traffic, and ensure security is resilient and highly available. Page 4 Find us at www.keysight.com

• Ixia visibility solutions are uniquely positioned to help organizations manage and monitor change in their cloud and on-premises networks. Ixia provides 100% access without dropping packets, as well as visibility intelligence, load balancing at line rates, and context knowledge to serve the right data to the right tool. Ixia has the most complete visibility portfolio on the market, allowing our customers to build a visibility architecture that best fits their network needs today and in the future.

• Ixia’s cellular and Wi-Fi test solutions address the complex challenges mobile operators and their network vendors face in rolling out high-quality, differentiated services. Mobile network operators use Ixia’s award-winning LTE, 5G, and Wi-Fi test systems and services to subject devices and configurations to high-stress, highscale conditions and a wide mix of voice, video, and data applications. Operators can evaluate the subscriber experience in the face of mobility, system overload, and even device failure on a large-city scale. And with the Wi-Fi internet of things (IoT) test solutions, device manufacturers can ensure that their Wi-Fi implementations are robust, cause no interference, and operate as specified.