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Ixia Unveils IxRave
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
Ixia, a provider of IP performance test systems, launched IxRave, a
patent-pending end-to-end remote Quality of Experience (QoE) and
service validation platform.
Ixia said that IxRave enables carriers, service providers and
enterprises to actively isolate faults, verify that end-customers are
receiving services and that such services are working according to
SLAs, and then continue to remotely monitor their networks.
The company stated that Bell Canada worked with Ixia to deploy remote
testing capability for rolling out triple play services on its network
and achieved payback in just one year. Bell Canada uses Ixia remote
testing to drastically reduce truck rolls previously required to handle
a high number of service incidents associated with the carrier s DSL
service. IxRave is based on the same remote test software and
centralized test approach in use at Bell Canada. Ixia said that the
carrier reduced IP-related unwarranted truck rolls by 98 percent, a
savings to date of CAN$3.2 million. Bell Canada also recovered 86
percent of DSLAM ports previously tagged defective, a further savings
of CAN$3.5 million.
Voice and video services over the fixed broadband network are poised
for rapid growth. We forecast global IPTV subscribers will increase
from 12.1 million in 2007 to 60.2 million in 2012, said Patrick Kelly,
co-founder and senior analyst at OSS Observer. Ixia provides active
probe testing solutions at the edge and access demarcation points to
verify service quality and effectively utilize the remote field
workforce.
Ixia said that IxRave is a cost-effective, scalable solution that
integrates with carriers operation support systems (OSS) and provides
active, rather than passive, service validation. Passive monitoring,
long the mainstay of service monitoring, uses costly probes that only
view the aggregate health of certain segments or network elements. Ixia
added that IxRave s inexpensive probes can be deployed along network
edges, at customer premises and at key core points to perform real-time
active network validation.
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Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News
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