Ixia Joins Forces With Developing Solutions to Validate the Mobile Core

Ixia IxLoad with technology from Developing Solutions helps mobile operators avoid LTE network failures and billing errors

CALABASAS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Ixia (NAS: XXIA) has collaborated with Developing Solutions to validate and harden the mobile core to accelerate application delivery across growing LTE networks. The market-leading IxLoad solution now leverages Developing Solutions‘ technology to promote high-performance testing of Diameter signaling- used for policy, charging and subscriber management- and deliver actionable insight into difficult-to-predict LTE signaling traffic.

Mobile operators face a major challenge in coping with surging traffic that can overwhelm infrastructures, which causes network outages and critical billing issues. Since these failures most often occur at high scale or under extreme conditions, Ixia provides mobile operators the solutions needed to proactively assess and validate the performance, resilience and scalability of LTE network cores and charging systems prior to live deployment.

Product highlights

Ixia offers the industry’s only end-to-end test solution used to harden and optimize LTE network designs and customize testing for unique live deployments. IxLoad delivers insight and visibility into network behavior; device performance; and the scalability of subscriber, billing and policy management systems using both Diameter and non-Diameter protocols on a single test system.

• IxLoad LTE test solutions deliver repeatable, large-scale testing so mobile network operators can emulate, isolate and verify LTE network performance.
• Rather than rely on isolated testing of distinct components, IxLoad enables system-level testing and generates both network and signaling traffic to deliver unprecedented data with unprecedented ease.
• IxLoad EPC solutions now leverage Developing Solutions‘ dsTest® to promote high-performance testing of Diameter-based billing and policy systems. Additionally, customers now benefit from Developing Solutions‘ SmartAVP™ technology, which allows flexible testing of mandatory and custom Attribute Value Pairs, and SmartEvents™, which enables rapid custom testing of specific implementations and triggers.
• IxLoad with dsTest features extensive Diameter interface support including multiple interfaces such as S6a, S6d, Gx, Ro/Gy, Rf/Gz, S6b, Rx, Sh, Cx and Sy.
• These features, in addition to support for Diameter Dictionary, allow validation of feature functionality as …read more
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