Editorial Contacts:
Frank Zajaczkowski,
Ixia, 818.871.1800, frank@ixiacom.com
Lori Choi,
Ixia, 818.444.2334, lchoi@ixiacom.com
Greg Wood, Internet2,
202-331-5360, ghwood@internet2.edu
IXIA PROVIDES INTERNET2
COMMUNITY WITH UNPARALLELD VISIBILITY INTO
INTER-DOMAIN PERFORMANCE
performance
CALABASAS, CA,
of high-speed, multiport network performance analysis and optimization
systems, announced today that as
part of its sponsorship of Internet2 it
has donated its inter-domain
traffic engineering software, IxTraffic,
for use in monitoring routing
and traffic flows on the Internet2 Abilene
network. IxTraffic is used
to optimize the performance of
world’s most advanced research
network.
"Organizations using
the
end-to-end traffic
performance," explained Steve Steve Corbató, Director
of Backbone Network
Infrastructure. "This requires that
we monitor and
optimize both internal network
performance and performance at the edges
of the network where
research networks. IxTraffic provides
us with unprecedented visibility
and understanding of our
inter-domain traffic."
IxTraffic was deployed in June 2002
and is now providing network
engineers with live, domain-wide
visibility into the behavior of
identification of problems and
anomalies. Correlation between this
routing data and traffic flow
information is also enabling detailed
analysis of traffic usage patterns
between participating organizations.
"As a sponsor of
Internet2, we are pleased to be in a position to help
ensure the continued high
performance of the
Karoly, vice
president of marketing for Ixia. "Ixia
is committed to the
continued development of leading edge
networking technologies."
Underscoring this
commitment, Ixia is currently partnering with the
Pacific Advanced Network
(APAN), STAR TAP, and the RouteViews project
sponsored by the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
More than 200 academic and
research organizations participate in the
Connectors include 29 peer
networks, such as the Defense Research and
Engineering Network (DREN),
the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy
Sciences Network (ESnet), NASA’s Integrated Services Network (NISN) and
Research and Education
Network (NREN), the very high performance
Backbone Network Service (vBNS) sponsored by the National Science
Foundation, as well as more
than 50 non-U.S. research and education
networks.
At this week’s Internet2
Joint Technical Workshop, in
staff from Ixia and the
sessions in inter-domain traffic
engineering. Topics include:
short-term traffic management,
including routing optimization and
congestion mitigation, and longer-term
network planning involving
peering analysis and evaluating
requirements for new capacity and
services. Routing and traffic load
information from
routers is available from the
Abilene NOC, http://www.abilene.iu.edu.
"Trend analysis and
correlation of network metrics is fundamental to
understanding the Internet’s evolution
and to the design of future
protocols and technologies,"
explained Guy Almes, Internet2's chief
engineer. "The data collected
by IxTraffic will be an important source
of information for the network
research community."
In addition to providing
real-time network monitoring and optimization
benefits, IxTraffic
data will be available for off-line analysis by
participating Internet2 researchers.
About Ixia
Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) delivers powerful, distributed, multiport traffic
generators, and
performance/conformance analyzers for wire-speed
verification of optical networking
equipment, LAN, MAN, WAN multi-layer
switches and routers, and
sophisticated routing protocols. Its products
utilize a variety of interfaces -
Packet Over SONET, BERT, 10 Gigabit
Ethernet,
Gigabit Ethernet, 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet, and USB. Ixia’s
network operations applications
address the industry’s growing
requirements for a higher level of
control over network optimization,
traffic engineering, traffic
profiling, and security. Ixia’s analysis
solutions are distinguished by their
accuracy, reliability, high port
density, support for emerging
protocol standards, conformance adherence,
and adaptability to the
industry's constant evolution.
For more information,
contact Ixia at
CA 91302; (818) 871-1800,
Fax: (818) 871-1805; Email: info@ixiacom.com
or visit our Web Site at http://www.ixiacom.com.
About Internet2(R)
Led by over 190
Internet2 is developing and
deploying advanced network applications and
technologies for research and higher
education, accelerating the
creation of tomorrow's Internet.
Internet2 recreates the partnerships
among academia, industry, and
government that helped foster today's
Internet
in its infancy.
For more information about Internet2, see:
About
Systems, Juniper Networks,
Nortel Networks and
Internet2 backbone network
providing nationwide high-performance
networking capabilities for over 200
universities and research
facilities in all 50 states, the
For more information on
http://www.internet2.edu/abilene/
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