Calnex Supports IXIA Test Conductor

Edinburgh, Scotland - 22 February 2011. Calnex Solutions announced today that it now supports Ixia’s Test Conductor automation framework. Calnex and IXIA demonstrated this at the EANTC Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test, which was showcased at the recent MPLS & Ethernet World Congress event.

Test Conductor allows developers and testers using both Calnex’s Paragon impairment test solution and Ixia’s IP performance test solution to fully automate IP equipment and service testing. Pairing Calnex and Ixia products speeds up development and drastically cuts time to market.

The move to Carrier Ethernet is both cost effective and forward-thinking. However, switching to all-IP-based networks requires confidence from both providers and customers. Both Calnex and Ixia want to provide solutions that satisfy their customers. The conjunction of their test tools creates a powerful total test solution for timing technologies such as IEEE 1588v2 and Synchronous Ethernet, as well as Ethernet OAM standards such as ITU-T Y.1731.

“The move to a Carrier Ethernet architecture requires thorough testing and validation. Providers must be confident that their timing synchronization and OAM implementations will be as reliable as past technologies, and customers must be happy with their quality of experience (QoE),” said Michael Haugh, Senior Product Manager at Ixia. “Ixia’s Test Conductor framework provides the right set of tools to speed up test cycles, cover more test cases, and get products to market faster so that providers realize their goals of excellent QoE.”

”Getting products to market quickly is an imperative in the rapidly-changing networking landscape. We hear many of our customers tell us that they need to integrate test automation in their product QA cycles,” said Anand Ram, Calnex’s VP of Sales and Marketing. “The Calnex and Ixia solutions complement each other well, and together achieve the goal of providing a total test setup.”

“The Multi-Vendor Interoperability Test organised by EANTC and presented at the MPLS & Ethernet World Congress 2011 involved extensive testing of MPLS and Carrier Ethernet within tight timelines,” said EANTC Managing Director Carsten Rossenhoevel. “The co-operation between Ixia and Calnex facilitated rapid testing in this time-critical test environment.