RELEASE SUMMARY FEATURE BRIEF IXCHARIOT® 9.0, 9.1, AND 9.3 FEATURES

UPGRADE FOR BETTER, FASTER APP AND NETWORK ASSESSMENT

ENSURING THE HIGHEST SERVER EDITION: SECURE, QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE CLOUD-BASED TEAM TOOL

IxChariot is an industry-leading IT tool for Server Edition adds the ability to run IxChariot assessing and troubleshooting networks and from the cloud with the main console hosted applications. Users simulate real-world from one site or data center and exposed applications to predict device, system, and publicly for easy access by multiple teams. network performance under realistic load Already the industry’s most powerful and cost- conditions. effective network assessment solution, IxChariot IxChariot enables users to instantly assess and provides increasingly high ROI as more users troubleshoot networks and applications before leverage the tool to meet a wider range of and after deployment. Software agents called business and technology challenges. Performance Endpoints simulate application Patented Ixia technology enables endpoints to traffic and deliver key performance metrics to a traverse company firewalls to assess network central console for easy management. The performance between private and cloud result is a fully instrumented system for networks without compromising security. confidently assessing the performance and reliability of applications running on a wide Ixia's AppLibrary adds nearly 100 pre-defined variety of networks, including wired, wireless, application profiles, devices, and end-user and virtual data centers. interactions for instant network, wireless, and QoS performance assessments. Pre-deployment, IT can run what-if scenarios to predict an application’s impact on the network. The following table enumerates the primary new After deployment, they can perform on-demand features and enhancements of the past three network diagnostics in an instant. IxChariot releases.

USABILITY AND VIRTUALIZATION TRAFFIC ENDPOINT SUPPORT SUPPORT FLOWS

18 5 11

Number of new features added to IxChariot in the past 3 releases

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RELEASE 9.0 RELEASE 9.1 RELEASE 9.3

 Firewall and NAT device  Video unicast and multicast  User experience enhancements traversal support between traffic with video-specific and redesigned menus distributed endpoints and the statistics  Login with Ixia Accounts web console  Data multicast traffic  New dashboard /w Customer  New Registration Server  OpenStack support for hosting Feedback and Ixia News functionality to centrally the IxChariot™ Console Server manage distributed endpoints  Automatic updates from web console  Optimizations for managing and  Remember the current running tests with a high count  Ability for endpoints to register selection in the Configuration of endpoints to the web console and Statistics pages  Endpoint for Raspbian OS  Deploy public endpoints in  Adaptive Video over HTTP / Raspberry Pi 2 Model B cloud services, such as AWS OTT video simulation available EC2, Digital Ocean, Microsoft  Pre-defined Skype flow as a new flow type Azure or Rackspace definitions for IM, voice, web  Reports relevant metrics, such and screen sharing  Support for hosting the as the variation in video quality, IxChariot™ web console in  Updated Flow library and the video playback rate and the cloud services such as AWS several enhancements and interruption of the video EC2 fixes playback  Run tests between private data  Customizable ports for AppMix  Predefined profiles for Netflix, centers / offices and public functionality YouTube, Apple TV, Youku and cloud services before migrating Dailymotion to the cloud  Users can define their own  Control over how IxChariot™ profiles handles the test failures in overloaded or error-prone  The Wi-Fi metrics are now networks, including wireless available from the Windows and Linux endpoints  Improved the reliability on automatically stopping the test  The Wi-Fi metrics RSSI and in case it exceeds the Link Speed are now also configured duration reported in the user interface  Support for enabling high  Export / import custom flows precision timers for reducing  Support in API to change the the UDP jitter on the supported flow parameters endpoint platforms  User-configurable timeout for  Support for using IPv6 for the stopping the test when no IxChariot™ management traffic statistics are received from the  Unified 9.0 endpoints are endpoints compatible with the previous console and endpoint versions (7.x / 8.x)  Support for using external license servers (version 3.10 EA or newer)

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More Information IxChariot Web Portal: https://www.ixiacom.com/products/ixchariot IxChariot Endpoint Library: https://www.ixiacom.com/ixchariot-endpoint-library AppLibrary Resources: https://www.ixiacom.com/resources/applibrary-create-mix-application-traffic-scale

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