[February 21, 2013] |
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New Ixia Products Enable Enterprises and Service Providers to Test, Assess and Optimize the Delivery of Applications
CALABASAS, Calif. --(Business Wire)--
Following two acquisitions in 2012, Ixia
(Nasdaq: XXIA) announced today that the company has delivered on
promised new products and integrated product offerings, including the
integration of BreakingPoint System's industry-leading application
and threat library into the full range of Ixia (News - Alert) products. Ixia now
delivers a complete set of solutions that allow enterprises and service
providers to test, assess and optimize their networks. With the
successful integration of products from the 2012 acquisitions of network
visibility solutions company Anue
Systems and security testing company BreakingPoint
Systems, customers can better accelerate, secure and scale
application delivery.
News highlights
Today's enterprises and carriers are heavily invested in technology
initiatives in order to protect their competitive advantage, maximize
revenues and improve operational efficiency. However, if these
technologies don't perform as promised, it compromises critical
time-to-market as well as profitability and the quality of the customer
experience. Ixia
solutions give customers vial, actionable information to eliminate
network guesswork, which allows IT and business managers to make
strategic investment decisions with confidence.
Since the acquisition of Anue and BreakingPoint, two leaders in network
performance and security, Ixia has delivered on multiple key integration
points, including:
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Application and Threat Library: Taking a page from
BreakingPoint Systems, the application and threat library is updated
every two weeks for deployment with the comprehensive Ixia solutions.
The library gives customers global visibility into emerging threats
and applications plus advanced insight into the resiliency of an
organization's IT infrastructure under operationally relevant
conditions and malicious attacks.
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Rapid Development Methodology: To provide customers more
frequent and complete software updates, Ixia has adopted a rapid
development methodology. Now Ixia customers receive product software
updates on a monthly basis.
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Successful Product Integration: Ixia customers now have
complete visibility into their networks and the applications that fuel
their businesses. Showcasing customers' ability to fully assess, test
and monitor their networks, Ixia will demonstrate at Mobile World
Congress the successful integration of the Ixia Anue Systems Net Tool
Optimizer and Ixia's IxLoad. Together these powerful solutions develop
mobile networks while delivering unprecedented visibility. Mobile
World Congress attendees can view the demonstration at the Ixia booth,
No. 6C91.
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Continued Product Excellence: Ixia continues the tradition of
product excellence with solutions that ensure the resiliency of your
networks, harden
and validate critical Wi-Fi, and more. Recent product milestones
include:
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Ixia Anue NTO - The industry's only carrier-grade, high-density,
40 Gbps network monitoring switch to achieve NEBS Level 3
certification for operation in mission-critical telecommunications
environments.
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Ixia BreakingPoint 20 - The highest port density solution, capable
of creating massive scale online behavior from more than 180
applications and 34,000 live security attacks.
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IxNetwork 7.0 - An advanced solution for validating network
infrastructure, capacity, scalability and convergence by quickly
creating real-world protocols and network behavior.
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IxVeriWave - A market-leading Wi-Fi test solution that allows
customers to optimize products and services, find problems faster,
and meet the growing demand for reliable Wi-Fi.
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XAir - The mobility industry's first comprehensive solution to
validate and optimize LTE (News - Alert) performance and enhance quality of
experience.
Commentary
"Today's businesses are online and any disruption in application
delivery can have devastating consequences for the bottom line as well
as future profitability," said Vic Alston, Ixia's president and CEO.
"Even with the explosive BYOD growth and the numerous devices used,
Ixia's integrated solutions help take the guesswork out of the network
and ensure that applications are quickly and securely delivered."
Ixia will showcase its solutions and share customer experiences at booth
No. 6C91 at Mobile World Congress (News - Alert), taking place Feb. 25-28 in Barcelona,
and at booth No. 2217 at the RSA Conference, taking place Feb. 25-March
1 in San Francisco.
About Ixia
From the lab to the network to the cloud, Ixia solutions optimize
networks and data centers to accelerate, secure and scale the delivery
of applications and services. Ixia delivers the industry's only solution
with complete visibility into critical network, data center,
applications and services. Ixia provides actionable insight for
enterprises, service providers, government agencies and equipment
manufacturers with solutions that test, assess and optimize networks.
Ixia solutions use predictive data to accelerate and secure application
delivery, giving customers the confidence to know their business
networks are engineered to be understandable, dynamic and resilient. For
more information, please visit www.ixiacom.com.

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