SCENARIO
Driven by massive growth in data traffic, service providers are moving toward a single packet network infrastructure that supports multiple services at lower operational costs.
Success and familiarity with MPLS in the core is driving service providers to deploy it with non-core network services, such as access, aggregation, and backhaul networks supporting broadband, business, and mobility services.
Additionally, MPLS-transport profile (MPLS-TP) enables connection-oriented packet transport to meet the growing demand. MPLS is under active development, with new mechanisms and applications emerging from the standards bodies, continually increasing its popularity.
As MPLS-based technologies and services continue to evolve, deploy, and increase in scale, the test challenges become increasingly complex. The adoption of SDN also provides technology innovation to enhance MPLS network for better traffic engineering with optimization, efficiency, and agility.
Ixia continues to provide the most comprehensive test capability for validating the MPLS infrastructure and the services it supports.
IXIA SOLUTIONS
Ixia helps answer critical MPLS questions, such as:
• Can my device or network reliably deliver multiple MPLS-based VPN services—L2, L3 (unicast, multicast)—simultaneously?
• Does my device maintain thousands of MPLS tunnels and pseudo-wires with the required level of forwarding performance?
• Are MPLS-TP features working properly?
• Can I interoperate with other vendors?
• Does my device conform to the latest MPLSrelated standards?
• Does MPLS traffic engineering provide sub50ms recovery?
