 Ixia announced new products for validating and testing the resiliency of enterprise networks, including the ability to simulate a data center rack of virtualized servers.
The company’s new RackSim is an industry first, according to Ixia, and simulates all the complexities of a rack of virtual servers in one box. Virtualization of data centers improves flexibility and efficiency, but creates new issues with workload and complexity of server architecture, Ixia said — and the RackSim is aimed at allowing easier testing and validation of factors including workload mobility, shared services, dynamic provisioning, resource optimization, management and disaster recovery.
Ixia also introduced its IxNetwork AppLibrary, which combines real-world applications with protocols and stateless traffic in order to test network infrastructure.
Spirent Communications said that independent test lab Network Test used the company’s TestCenter product to verify the performance of theHP FlexFabric data center portfolio, verifying its ability to operate at the scale necessary to deploy public and private cloud services, and demonstrating its routing capability. Spirent said that TestCenter was used to verify line-rate performance of 128 40 GbE ports, in one of the industry’s largest public 40G Ethernet tests. The test lab also validated the system’s performance in supporting more than 128,000 hosts such as virtual machines and servers.
Anite expanded its relationship with test and engineering group 7Layers, which selected the company’s LTE device test solution for use it  7Layers’ facility in Suwon, South Korea. 7Layers has been an Anite customer for a decade, using various 2G, 3G and LTE device testing at its labs.  The South Korean facility will involve conformance and mobile operator acceptance testing of devices.
TK Bae, CEO of 7Layers Korea, said the company is “experiencing significant growth in the South Korean mobile testing market and a surge in demand for LTE conformance and operator acceptance testing, from both core technology suppliers and end-product manufacturers.”
