Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) today announced the results of performance testing of Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) MX 3D Universal Edge Router conducted by the European Advanced Network Test Center (EANTC). EANTC selected Ixia’s IxNetwork solution to test the performance of Juniper’s MX 3D router, designed to address enterprise and service provider requirements for more flexible technology and business models.

Using IxNetwork™, powered by ViperCore technology, EANTC validated the high port density, throughput, and scalability of MX Series 3D router. IxNetwork measured the MX 3D’s ability to deliver the high-bandwidth services demanded by next-generation networks by generating peak traffic volumes. The MX480 3D accurately processed an unprecedented 1.4 terabits per second of traffic using a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 traffic flows in a compact sixth of a rack form factor – exceeding one billion packets per second. The MX 3D exhibited leading performance that included more than 6,000 active VPLS or L3 VPN service instances, 2.4 million unique VPN routes, and 60,000 multicast groups.

“IxNetwork delivered very high traffic levels and protocol emulation that allowed us to benchmark the breakthrough performance of the MX 3D router,” said Mehdi Sif, director, technology marketing, at Juniper. “IxNetwork allowed us to showcase the MX 3D’s scale across the bandwidth, service and subscriber dimension concurrently and test the largest routing topologies.”

Ixia’s XM12 chassis, 96 IxYukon 10Gig ports, and IxNetwork version 5.40 were used in the test. Ixia’s technology experts partnered with EANTC to plan and implement the test process.

“We have tested the new line cards for the Juniper MX 3D series routers for large-scale service performance imposed by new media-rich Internet applications,” said Carsten Rossenhöevel, EANTC. “Ixia’s IxNetwork software and IxYukon cards allowed us to validate the performance of this next generation solution, matching the scale of the system under test.”

As networks converge into a single network infrastructure used to carry voice, video, data, and wireless traffic, it is critical that leading-edge test systems be used to assess functionality, scale, and performance. IxNetwork provides wire-rate traffic generation with service modeling that builds realistic and dynamically controllable data-plane traffic. IxNetwork’s built-in protocol and traffic wizards provide an easy to use, versatile solution to test large-scale, complex, next-generation devices. With its comprehensive protocol coverage, IxNetwork quickly hones in on key performance metrics in large-scale networks, including latency, jitter, and frame loss.

IxNetwork offers the industry's most versatile test solution for functional and performance testing with its comprehensive emulation of routing, switching, MPLS, IP multicast, broadband, authentication, Carrier Ethernet, and data center bridging protocols. IxNetwork scales to new heights, enabling our customers to build the most powerful devices and largest networks.

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Ixia is the leading provider of converged IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services. Ixia’s test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments and enterprises to validate the performance and reliability of complex networks, devices and applications. 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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