Shares of Ixia, Inc. (XXIA) rallied 8 percent, or 59 cents, to $7.90 after the provider of IP performance test systems announced the opening of its “iSimCity,” an executive briefing center and proof-of-concept lab that allows a customer to test applications on a more realistic scale.
Network equipment manufacturers and service providers are demanding real-world demonstrations; iSimCity meets those demands, according to Ixia. Before customers commit to purchasing test applications and equipment, they often request proof-of-concept demonstrations, at scale. With the ability to conduct city-scale testing, iSimCity will enable customers to access thousands of test ports and aggregate traffic in the range of 10-100 Gigabits per second, while emulating hundreds of thousands of users and generating millions of routes. Customers can also conduct system testing by emulating dozens of infrastructure servers, including load balancers, denial of service defenders, switches, routers, video servers, SIP proxies, and DNS and DHCP servers.
“Our goal is to provide carrier grade scale with real-world network emulation that will provide quick proof to our customers that Ixia’s test solutions are essential in getting their products and services to market more quickly,” said Atul Bhatnagar, Ixia president and COO. “iSimCity has all the industry-leading Ixia software and hardware solutions so customers can be assured that their equipment and services are benchmarked with the best of breed testing solutions.”
iSimCity, located in Santa Clara, Calif., can also complement companies’ existing test labs and accelerate time to market by adding bandwidth for in-house projects.
Calabasas, Calif.-based Ixia provides 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.
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