RELEASE SUMMARY
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IXLOAD 6.70 EA – 8.10 EA
APPLICATION FEATURES
Ixia provides the industry’s most comprehensive IxLoad works with Ixia's test platform to transmit converged IP network validation and visibility and receive control and data plane traffic with solutions. Equipment manufacturers, service the device under test. Ixia's chassis are providers, enterprises, and government populated with hot-swappable test interface agencies use our solutions to design, verify, and cards. Each test port is equipped with an monitor a broad range of wired, Wi-Fi, and independent processor and substantial memory 3G/LTE equipment and networks. Our test in addition to specialized traffic stream solutions emulate realistic media-rich traffic and generation and capture hardware – providing the network conditions to optimize and validate the speed and intelligence needed for large-scale design, performance, and security of pre- protocol emulation. deployment networks. Ixia is focused on reducing our customers’ IxLoad is a scalable solution for testing operational expenses. Our equipment and converged multiplay services, application services proactively help to avoid network delivery platforms, and security devices and downtime and improve network performance, systems. It emulates data, voice, and video and we speed assistance when an issue arises. subscribers and associated protocols to ensure Ixia uses the same approach to providing quality of experience (QoE). IxLoad also applies support services. Our support services are cost malware and distributed denial of service effective and easy to use, and our staff are (DDoS) attacks for security effectiveness and responsive and skilled. accuracy testing. The following table highlights the primary new With known vulnerabilities, DDoS attacks and features and enhancements of the past three IPsec encryption for VPN gateways, IxLoad IxLoad releases. tests security devices and authentication mechanisms, including 802.1x and NAC.
INFRASTRUCTURE VOICE DATA AND VIRTUAL OTHER WIRELESS WIRELESS AND HARDWARE AND STORAGE EDITION FEATURES ACCESS CORE VIDEO
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RELEASE 6.70 EA RELEASE 8.00 EA RELEASE 8.10 EA
Infrastructure & Hardware
PerfectStorm/PerfectStorm ONE PerfectStorm/PerfectStorm PerfectStorm/PerfectStorm ONE ONE Introduces PerfectStorm 100GE Fusion load module with support for Circular Capture Buffer HTTP/2 is now supporting BreakingPoint and IxLoad support on the redirect functionality on PS applications (Appliance will not have PerfectStorm platform for Platform. We implemented the 100G support) better capture analysis. redirect support on the high performance path, therefore both Performance improvement of SSL Other ECC Ciphers (hardware encryption HTTP and HTTP/2 now support offload of ECC Ciphers) Complete REST API higher performance even when support for automation of redirect is enabled. This IxLoad-Attack, PVM support for IxLoad Data protocols and particularly useful for test proxy PerfectStorm 10GE, 40GE and functionality. For the rest of and HTTP DDoS mitigation 100GE the protocols, we have scenarios. Complete Network Access protocols limited REST API support performance optimization by adding and will be a beta in this the “Performance Acceleration” release. Other option; in addition to 6rd/DSLite IxLoad supported on the optimized in previous release, the IxLoad now requests a user to XGS2-SD and XGS2-HS performance optimization was done log in with an Ixia account to two slot chassis. for PPP, L2TP, etc in IxLoad 6.70EA gain access to the User Interface (available as beta) IxLoad Smart Configuration of IxLoad application. Ixia will option supported from TCL, use this information to PerfectStorm ONE support for all which will improve the test personalize and improve the EPC, Diameter, VoLTE and WiFi execution time, by 25% performance of their offload solutions and Apply Config and applications, features, website Support for SWn interface, Release Config states of and marketing messages. StatelessPeer (S1-AP, S11, S5, S4 the test by 50%. interfaces), Trusted WiFi and IxLoad 8.00 EA application AppReplay on PerfectStorm 10GE supports running on a Support for S11/Gn, S5/Gn, S4 and Windows 10 operating Diameter interfaces on PerfectStorm system. It is recommended 40GE to use the Windows 10 Pro version. Other
Xcellon-Multis XM100GE4QSFP28 and XM100GE4CFP4 now support IxLoad. (IxLoad is only supported on the Phase II hardware and the 25G mode is currently not supported). Perl API support for IxLoad Perl/Python automation support for Wireless protocols: all plugins except Access & eNB REST API support for IxLoad (available as beta) Linux Kernel Upgrade
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Media (Voice & Video)
Extend MSRP (Message Session EPC Untrusted Wifi - IxLoad HLS client will now Relay Protocol) support for CPIM Support for Voice over WiFi correctly receive and parse an (Common Profile for Instant Support for EVRC audio EXT-X-MEDIA tag received in Messaging) codecs on PerfectStorm playlist from HLS Server; also Websockets and Secure platform to validate IMS IxLoad will request media Websockets support for WebRTC networks content from server in chunks following the EXT-X- OPUS (audio codec) and VP8 Performance BYTERANGE byte-range rule (video codec) for Advanced SIP and improvements of set by external HLS server. WebRTC perceptual quality of voice New Tags work with encrypted measurements (PESQ) IxLoad VM Support for Voice – SIP HLS (EXT-X-KEY) and over & RTP, VoLTE (available as beta) IPv6 support for all OTT HTTPS (if selected). Client Emulations IxLoad VM Support for Video – IxLoad now includes Basic DASH, Flash, HDS, HLS, IPTV, SSL support for DASH/HLS DRM implementation on HLS Silverlight (available as beta) Client Emulations and will retrieve an encryption Support for TR 101 290 key (AES-128) from an (ETSI) standard for the external server over HTTPS digital video analysis as defined by EXT-X-KEY tag. (MPEG Stream) The retrieved key will be used for stream decryption and quality analysis. The HTTP video streaming previously only had supported User Agent http header configuration. This was inadequate for testing cases where users may want to change the headers to test the CDN such as sending a Cache-control request header to indicate a file requested is not a cached file. IxLoad now supports HEVC (H.265) codec using pre- encoded media files (TS, MP4) for IPTV and OTT traffic generation. Transmission of streams containing HEVC elementary streams will be available for each Video protocol. RTSP activity now includes IPv6 support requiring only to set IPv6 on the Network/IP for the emulated RTSP client to be an IPv6 client. All RTSP functionalities remain the same.
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IxLoad includes performance optimization for SIP TLS / SRTP on PerfectStorm. TLS version 1.2 adds support for authenticated encryption modes, and support for the SHA-256 and SHA-384 hash algorithms. EVS (Codec for Enhanced Voice Services – 3GPP specification) is a new voice codec added to IxLoad VOIP codec portfolio with PESQ/POLQA analysis supported.
Data & Storage
HTTP/2 – Basic Client emulation HTTP/2 Client and Server IxLoad now includes support for (available as beta) emulation to validate the 3072 bit SSL certificates, Client scale and performance of per-url statistics for Allow the user to configure the TCP content-aware devices and HTTP/HTTP2 and High Stack for no retransmissions (i.e. networks to the new web performance HTTP/HTTP2 single transmission) when standard (supported only redirect. “Performance Acceleration” option on PerfectStorm). is used Direct Server Response (Return) Supports HTTP cookies support for AppLibrary enables Reduce the burstiness of rate test and HTTP redirection on use cases where the L3DSR real objectives for HTTP by reducing the HTTP/2 clients. server is on different subnet than time granularity from 100ms to 1ms Virtual IP (VIP) configured on the HTTP redirect on the Server Load Balancer (SLB). HTTP/2 server is a beta quality. Supports playlists for HTTP/2 simplifies the creation of large numbers of user sessions and URLs with unique credentials. Performance improvement of SSL GCM Ciphers (hardware encryption offload on PerfectStorm only). Database client emulation support added on the PerfectStorm platform.
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IxLoad Virtual Edition (VE)
Support for 64-bit Guest OS (Ixia IxLoad-VE now supports IxLoad VE now includes Enhanced Kernel). The user can the new Linux Virtual support for PCI Pass-through now allocate more than 4 GB of Chassis running IxServer and SR-IOV capability on Intel memory and benefit from increased (no Windows), which NICs to bypass vSwitch to scalability (available as beta) improves the deployment eliminate packet drops due to time by 700%. ENB and HENB emulation support software forwarding. We are (available as beta) Support for a new Ixia seeing about 20-40% Virtual Load Module with improvement in Throughput IxLoad VM Support for Voice – SIP 64-bit architecture / Linux and about 200-300% & RTP, VoLTE (available as beta) 3.10 kernel. The users can improvements in rate and IxLoad VM Support for Video – now allocate more than 4 memory based metrics with DASH, Flash, HDS, HLS, IPTV, GB of memory and benefit SR-IOV. Silverlight (available as beta) from increased scalability. The IxLoad VE Tier-3-10G Support for Windows 8.1 (64-bit) on Support for a new Subscription License delivers the IxVM vChassis Licensing Mode on the Ixia better price/performance for Virtual Chassis. When high performance using this new operation requirements; it enables same mode, the Virtual Chassis features as the Tier-3-1G does not require license, with 10x the connectivity to a License performance. It is an Server anymore, and the indestructible license that license enforcement is cannot be split in multiple 1G performed by the IxLoad licenses or simultaneous applications. users. The new Tier-4-1G and Tier-4-10G Subscription Windows 10 support for Licenses enable Wireless VM client applications protocols on IxLoad VE including Deployment including all Tier-3 protocols Wizard, Job Manager and and features. Chassis Builder. IxLoad VE now supports deployment through customized Heat Orchestration Templates with initial configuration through CloudInit scripts. OpenStack qualification has been completed on a vanilla version of Open Stack Liberty. This release is also compatible with other vendor-modified OpenStack environments. IxLoad VE now supports SSL (TLSv1.1 and 1.2), HTTP/2 Client and Server as well as WebRTC. IxLoad VE also supports POLQA & PESQ for Voice QoE eliminating the need for dedicated hardware.
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Other Features
AppLibrary: Ability to add multiple For 802.1x, IxLoad now sees a 5x AppLibrary AppMixes in a single improvement on Setup Rate per test configuration PerfectStorm port, a 16x Capacity increase per 10G PerfectStorm IxLoad-IPsec: Support parallel port, and a 64x Capacity increase tunnel bring-up on different ranges per 40G PerfectStorm port. and gateways The IPsec implementation in IxLoad-Attack: PVM support for IxLoad received support for PerfectStorm and PerfectStorm RFC5998: an extension for EAP- ONE only authentication in IKEv2
Wireless Access
LTE Access LTE-WiFi Offload LTE Access o Channel Modelling Handovers (eNB/MME to o GTP-u fragmentation on S1u Enhancements Phase 1 Untrusted AP) (eNB/MME & SGW plugins) o Ability to redirect full debug CAPWAP on PerfectStorm achieved with Stateless UDP logs to external machine and full interoperability with o Support for PMIPv6 over Cisco WLC o UE Authentication (PAP/CHAP) GTP 4) support o LTE-UE ixReporter support o Support for XAir in XGS12-HS o LTE-UE Emergency Calling chassis for both IMSI and IMEI UE identifications WiFi-Offload o Untrusted Handovers (S5 SGW WiFi to S2b ePDG) – Phase1 o WiFi Offload: support for o VoLTE over WiFi (S2b) AppLibrary on Trusted & Capwap plugins o CAPWAP Enhancements Wireless Core
ENB and EPC Simulation Support for Stateless Peer o WiFi Offload: support for HSGW simulation (PMIPv6 & o RTP passthru loopback at (Load mode) on multiple STa) Dedicated Bearer level plugins o WiFi-LTE handovers with o Ability to run real phones and Downlink & Uplink Channel Volte support (eNB/MME – have conversation Modelling enhancements on LTE-UE plugin AP SWu – S4/S12) o EPCSim: Negative testing VoLTE on eNB on o EPCSim: Emergency Calling PerfectStorm Diameter Emergency Calling on LTE- o Automatic PDF report UE plugin generation for Diameter eSRVCC from 4G to 2G o Diameter - support for 2nd support on eNodeB plugin connection on Client (XT80/PS) Custom Milenage o SGW & PGW S5 Impairment parameters on RNC plugin (NP & PS) (w/o Neg Behavior & SGi IP pass-thru on EPC- Node Failure) Simulation
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RELEASE 6.70 EA RELEASE 8.00 EA RELEASE 8.10 EA Stateless Peer (Pulse mode) activity on top of Home eNodeB
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