CHAPTER 1 Overview of IxOS
This chapter provides a basic overview of IxOS.
About the Ixia Product Family
The Ixia system is the most comprehensive tool available for testing multilayer High Speed Ethernet,
10/100 Mbps Ethernet, Ethernet Gigabit, 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, and Packet over SONET
switches, routers, and networks.
The Ixia product family includes chassis, load modules, the Ixia IxExplorer software program, and
optional Tcl scripts and related software. A chassis can be configured with any mix of load modules,
and multiple chassis can be connected in a daisy chain or star topology and synchronized to support
very large and complex test environments. The Ixia IxExplorer software provides complete
configuration, control, and monitoring of all Ixia resources in the test network, and the Tcl scripts allow
to rapidly conduct the most popular industry benchmark tests.
The XM12 provides high port density and hot swappable capability.
The XM2 is the next generation portable chassis that is a combination of the architecture with the XM
form factor. The XM2 provides hot-swappable capability in a more portable format.
The XGS12 Chassis – XGS12-SD and XGS12-HS are the next generation high performance platform
capable of supporting XM form factor load modules. XGS12-SD and XGS12-HS are 12-slot chassis with
high-speed backplane (160 Gbps between each adjacent two cards) designed for aggregation across
load modules. These chassis are capable of testing high density, multi-Terabit bandwidth, Carrier class
core edge, metro routers and data center switches. This flexible platform supports layer 2-7 testing on
a massive scale and provides the most comprehensive solution for performance, functional, security,
and conformance testing of network equipment and network applications.
The 2-slot XGS2 chassis - XGS2-SD and XGS2-HS provide highly flexible and portable chassis that
powers load modules and test applications to create an Ixia test system. The XGS2 platform provides
the foundation for a complete benchtop or rackmount test environment. The chassis platform supports
Ixia applications for performance, functional, conformance, and security testing.
A range of 1 to 48 ports can be packaged depending on network technology. An Ixia card is also
referred to as a load module. For most media, any combination of load modules may be included in a
single chassis. The highly scalable architecture supports daisy-chaining of up to 256 chassis that may
be locally synchronized. Thus, even the most complex systems can be tested thoroughly and cost-
effectively.
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