Ixia Demonstrates Industry-First 40 Gigabit Ethernet Testing Capability

Broadband World Forum Europe 2008

CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP performance test systems, today announced that it will demonstrate 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) line-rate traffic generation and analysis Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at Broadband World Forum Europe in Brussels (stand #568). This industry-first, proof-of-concept demonstration follows a demonstration of 100 GE held in June at NxtComm'08 with Infinera and XO Communications, in which 100 GE traffic was transmitted over a live link from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and back.

"40 GE will be a major player in data centers and for carrier networks," said Atul Bhatnagar, Ixia's president and CEO. "We've architected our high speed Ethernet (HSE) development to handle both 40 GE and 100 GE standards-compliant testing and will supply Ixia-powered products for both speeds."

The Ixia 40 GE proof-of-concept demonstration includes an implementation of and testing facility for the 40/100 GE physical coding sublayer (PCS) layer approved as the baseline proposal by the IEEE 802.3ba task force, with its underlying multilane distribution (MLD) architecture. MLD enables network providers to bond multiple 10 GE or higher-speed lanes into a single logical 40/100 GE link. MLD provides a means of "striping" a 40 Gbps flow into multiple "virtual" lanes.

For more information on Ixia's 40 and 100 GE testing solution, please visit Ixia's high speed Ethernet site. Two white papers on 40/100 GE and MLD technology are available there.

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Ixia is a leading provider of IP service verification platforms and performance test systems for IP-based infrastructure and services. Ixia's multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video, and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

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