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The N2X IPV6 Solution provides service providers and equipment manufacturers a complete solution for characterizing IPV6 network implementations. With the industry’s highest absolute routing protocol scalability, broadest conformance test coverage, and full support for tunneling protocols like 6PE and VPNv6, N2X reduces the overall test-bed investment and time-to-transition. Service providers can then verify the performance of application traffic delivered over IPV6 networks using the N2X companion product, Network Tester. Through the unique Agilent application mix test methods, real world blends of traffic are used to truly characterize application performance IPV6 deployments.
The move from IPV4 to IPV6 will not be a sharp cut-over requiring a fork-lift upgrade to network equipment. Rather it will be a slow evolution with the US government for example mandating a commencement of IPV6 deployments in 2008. As enterprises and operators begin deployment of IPV6 enabled devices, they will need to co-exist with traditional IPV4 and MPLS networks. This will require support for dual-stack operation, various tunneling protocol implementations and enhanced security services. Conformance to transition mechanisms RFCs and security mechanisms are critical in ensuring a smooth path to interoperability and reducing time to service.
Agilent N2X provides the most comprehensive IPV6 solution to ensure test realism, scalability and faster time to insight:
- Highest absolute routing protocol scalability for and simultaneous generation of tunnelled IPv6/IPv4 traffic for realistic IPV6 implementation performance characterisation.
- Industry’s leading IPv6 conformance test coverage including security suites, validating IPV6 based encryption and authentication mechanisms.
- Powerful and easy-to-use GUI combines all IPV6 routing performance testing into a single control and analysis point, delivering greater time-to-insight.
- With the complementary Network Tester solution, ability to emulate real-world mixes of application traffic to validate the ultimate performance of IPV6 deployments.
Test Realism
N2X provides unparalleled test realism to verify the ultimate performance of IPV6 network implementations. With comprehensive coverage of all IPV6 routing protocols (BGP4+, OSPFv3, IS-ISv6, RIPng) and simultaneous generation of IPV4, IPV6 and tunneled IPV6/IPV4 traffic, N2X provides the industry’s most flexible multi-protocol emulation that enables realistic test simulation of mixed IPV4/IPV6 networks. Along with characterizing the underlying IPV6 network infrastructure, the N2X solution also comprises of a companion product, Network Tester, which is used to characterise the ultimate performance of IPV6 networks, the end-to-end application performance. Network Tester’s Application Mix test plans generate multiple transactions between real clients and servers from multiple protocols such as HTTP, H.323, SIP, SMTP and POP3. This is all based on traffic distributions and parameters modeled from actual network statistics.
Scalability
The scalable performance of IPV6 network implementations is critical to the profitable transition and deployment of the services they enable. With the industry’s highest absolute routing protocol scalability and flexible IPV6 traffic generation, N2X provides the most scalable emulation engine to simulate converged networks.
Faster time to insight
The Agilent N2X powerful emulation environment and easy-to-use GUI combines all IPV6 routing performance testing into a single control and analysis point, delivering greater time to insight. In addition, Agilent N2X provides the industry’s broadest IPV6 conformance test coverage including security suites validating IPV6 based encryption and authentication mechanisms. The N2X IPV6 protocol conformance suite operates within a unique Test Manager with industry leading usability and reporting features. This provides rapid result diagnosis and problem isolation saving engineers time and effort from developing and validating protocol implementations.
The evolutionary transition to IPV6 networks will demand greater interoperability challenges for operators and manufacturers. By using test equipment with integrated support for IPV6 traffic forwarding, routing and tunneling technologies users can gain confidence that these mechanisms operate correctly. Along with validating end-to-end application traffic under realistic conditions, users will gain the ultimate confidence of their network capacity and degradation points. The Agilent N2X IPV6 Solution simplifies and accelerates testing saving months of testing effort.
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