Ixia Sets the Pace for Delivering Production-Ready 100/50/25 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) Test Solutions

a leading provider of network testing, visibility, and security solutions, continues to set the pace in delivering production-ready solutions that enable customers to successfully deploy 100GbE, 50GbE, and 25GbE, with the introduction of the new Novus^TM QSFP28 High-Density 100GbE Load Module (Novus).  This new solution from Ixia increases test flexibility and reduces capital expenditure by offering multi-rate Ethernet test ports that eliminate the need to purchase multiple load modules.

Service providers and hyperscale data centers need a high-density networking infrastructure to meet growing bandwidth demands. In addition, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) are building ultra-high density switches that support multi-rate Ethernet speeds on a single port to enable flexible switch deployment wherever required within their customer’s data center.

Ixia is currently the only industry leader shipping production-ready validation solutions that meet all of the bandwidth needs of these organizations, providing interoperability as well as functional and high-port count performance benchmark testing across multiple Ethernet speeds.

“Ixia continues to lead the market in delivering production-ready validation solutions on a proven, field tested platform and our list of firsts continues to grow,” said Dennis Cox, Chief Product Officer at Ixia. “Over the past 15 years, we’ve been first to ship test systems supporting 10GbE, 100GbE, 40GbE, 25GbE, and 50 GbE.  We have a track record of developing and bringing new test solutions to market with emerging technologies to serve early adopters.”

Ixia’s native QSFP28 solutions have been in production and shipping since late 2014.   In fact, Ixia was the first to market with native QSFP28 100GbE and 25GbE solutions, and was also first to market with a production released 50GbE speed option on the company’s Xcellon®-Multis QSFP28 platform.

In addition to the company’s Xcellon-Multis® family of load modules, Ixia has launched Novus, an innovative validation solution offering advanced Layer 1 features such as auto-negotiation (AN), forward error correction (FEC), and link training (LT).

Novus is designed to evolve with the latest standards for 25GbE and 50GbE as specified by the 25G/50G Ethernet Consortium and to meet the IEEE P802.3by draft standard for 25GbE.