SCENARIO
Cloud computing and network functions virtualization (NFV) are creating a new paradigm of user experience. Users expect immediate access to a wide range of mediarich applications and services instantly from any location. Integrating virtualization across servers within a data center is key to creating an adaptable cloud network.
Service providers are looking to accelerate the deployment of these new services, including 5G, while reducing capital and operating expenses and integrating NFV into their network. These new services require thorough testing to ensure functionality, performance, security, and reliability of applications and devices, as well as the new infrastructure, to ensure it can deliver the touted advantages.
IXIA SOLUTIONS
Ixia gives you tools for end-to-end validation of virtualization migrations to dramatically accelerate time from lab to live. With our solutions, you can test and monitor how packets transmit and receive data, see how resources perform, and watch for bottlenecks.
Ixia brings versatility, scale, and realism to its test tools and regularly updates the applications the tools emulate. You can replay production traffic in the lab while simulating millions of subscribers using hundreds of applications to validate private, hybrid, and public cloud infrastructures at scale under different traffic loads. This validation lets you accelerate the rollout of new services with confidence.
Ixia virtual test solutions act as virtual network functions (VNFs) and are located inside the virtualized environment itself. This enables new test methodologies and better isolation of various NFV subcomponents.
In addition to VFNs, NFVi must be dimensioned and configured correctly, and thoroughly validated to ensure the performance of the VNFs running on top of it. Complicating matters, the NFVi will be running diverse simultaneous workloads that interact with each other, leading to massive and costly over-provisioning.
Since virtualized environments are very dynamic, with VMs deployed almost instantaneously, you can quickly deploy test endpoints throughout your live network. This enables you to validate a test scenario in the lab and then perform the same test directly in the production network.
When the test objective is to validate the entire physical and virtual environment from an end-toend perspective, you can also use Ixia hardware test solutions. With configuration files shared between the virtual and hardware platforms, you can easily switch between virtualized and hardware-based test solutions.