Businessweek

Ixia provides converged Internet protocol (IP) network validation and network visibility solutions. Equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, and government agencies use the company’s solutions to design, verify, and monitor a range of Ethernet, Wi-Fi, and 3G/long-term evolution (LTE) equipment and networks. The company’s product solutions consist of its hardware platforms, such as its chassis, interface cards and appliances, software application tools, and services, including its warranty and maintenance offerings and professional services. Its solutions deliver actionable insight through real-time monitoring, real-world testing, and predictive analytics. This visibility provides organizations with understanding into user behavior, security vulnerabilities, network capacity, application performance, and IT resiliency. From the research labs to the network to the cloud, the company’s solutions optimize networks’ and data centers’ to accelerate, secure, and scale application delivery. Products The company’s systems are managed through graphical user interfaces that allow users to configure its chassis, interface cards, and appliances. Its network test and visibility platforms also allow users to create custom applications tailored to meet their specific requirements with the used Tool Command Language (Tcl) programming environment. Hardware Products Sales of the company’s network test hardware products include a chassis and various Ethernet interface cards. The company’s software applications and APIs allow its customers to create and manage integrated automated test environments. Its hardware platform consists primarily of interchangeable interface cards, which fit into multi-slot chassis. Its chassis are metal cases that incorporate a computer, a power supply, and a backplane, which connects the interface cards to the chassis. The interface cards generate, receive, and analyze various traffic types at multiple network layers. The company’s primary network test chassis, the 12-slot XM12 and XG12, provides a test platform. Operating in conjunction with its software applications, its chassis provide the foundation for a test environment. A range of interface cards is available for the company’s primary chassis. The XM12 and XG12 chassis support approximately 192 Gigabit ports, 384-10GE ports, 48-40GE ports, and 24-100 GE ports. These interface cards provide the network interfaces and distributed processing resources needed for executing a range of data, signaling, voice, video, and application testing for layers 1-7 of the network stack. Each chassis supports an integrated test controller that manages various system and testing resources. The company offers various interface cards that operate at speeds of approximately 100 gigabits per second. Each 1 of its interface cards contains 1 to 32 independent traffic generation and analysis ports. These ports operate at line rate. Each port on majority interface cards has a transmit stream engine that is used to generate packets of information and a real-time receive analysis engine capable of analyzing the packets as they are received. In addition, the company’s systems measure the effectiveness of networks in prioritizing different types of traffic. Majority of its generation interface cards also include a microprocessor per port to generate and analyze routing protocols, such as BGP and MPLS, as well as application traffic, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and SSL. Certain of the company’s Ixia BreakingPoint interface cards, could provide approximately 30,000 new live malware attacks, including 100+ new mobile malware attacks. These cards provide application and threat assessment solutions. Sales of the company’s network visibility hardware products include an integrated, purpose-built hardware appliance with proprietary software. The Ixia Anue Net Tool Optimizer (NTO) product line revolutionizes the way customers monitor their network. The company’s NTO platform provides network visibility into physical and virtual networks, and optimizes monitoring tool performance. Its NTO products intelligently connect to a data center network with monitoring too