Ixia Provides End-to-End Assessments to Ensure Performance in Complex Enterprise Networks
March 27, 2014
Share this

As part of its newly enhanced IxChariot suite, Ixia introduced IxChariot 8.0 and IxChariot Pro solutions that allow customers to meet the rising demand for operational efficiency and to leverage the agility offered by new networking technologies.

IxChariot provides IT teams the ability to more easily devise and conduct end-to-end network assessments that simulate real-world applications and predict device, system and network performance under realistic load conditions – all from a web browser.

As network deployment models evolve and cloud computing and virtualization lead to data center consolidation, enterprises are increasingly embarking on these high-profile initiatives and cannot afford to overlook network performance variables. Traditional views of networks do not deliver the scalability and reliability needed to predict and optimize performance in enterprise networks that are becoming increasingly borderless. The latest release of IxChariot enables enterprise network architecture teams and IT operations professionals to measure and optimize real end-to-end application performance during network design, staging and live operations.

New networking technologies, including virtualization, cloud computing, mobility, unified communications and rich media services, offer significant IT benefits; however, they also add to network complexity and can cause performance degradation.

To drive greater network efficiency and flexibility and to simplify network assessment testing across LANs, WANs, virtualized environments and mobile infrastructures, IxChariot v8.0 provides customers with benefits including:

- Comprehensive assessment of enterprise network performance bottlenecks via IxChariot server and endpoints, which can be distributed throughout multiple data centers and remote office locations. IxChariot endpoints have a very small software footprint and are supported on dozens of operating systems, personal computing and mobile devices.

- Real world traffic flows with Ixia’s Application Library, which emulates authentic enterprise application behavior to determine the impact of the network’s design on application performance.

- Flexible deployment into the network via virtualized platforms, as well as the ability to simultaneously be accessible from anywhere within the network, through a new HTML5 web interface.

- Support for all major computing platforms, including popular platforms such as Windows, iOS, Android and Linux servers, with a small, non-intrusive endpoint agent used to conduct the end-to-end network assessments.

IxChariot Pro provides an operational solution for distributed production network and field use that enables customers to additionally:

- Combine centralized web commands with potentially thousands of software and hardware probes deployed across physical and virtual data centers.

- Conduct automated real-time network assessment and active monitoring.

- Access enhanced reporting, alerts to deviations in SLA compliance and the ability to test without changing the current infrastructure setup.

Share this

The Latest

March 27, 2024

Nearly all (99%) globa IT decision makers, regardless of region or industry, recognize generative AI's (GenAI) transformative potential to influence change within their organizations, according to The Elastic Generative AI Report ...

March 27, 2024

Agent-based approaches to real user monitoring (RUM) simply do not work. If you are pitched to install an "agent" in your mobile or web environments, you should run for the hills ...

March 26, 2024

The world is now all about end-users. This paradigm of focusing on the end-user was simply not true a few years ago, as backend metrics generally revolved around uptime, SLAs, latency, and the like. DevOps teams always pitched and presented the metrics they thought were the most correlated to the end-user experience. But let's be blunt: Unless there was an egregious fire, the correlated metrics were super loose or entirely false ...

March 25, 2024

This year, New Relic published the State of Observability for Financial Services and Insurance Report to share insights derived from the 2023 Observability Forecast on the adoption and business value of observability across the financial services industry (FSI) and insurance sectors. Here are seven key takeaways from the report ...

March 22, 2024

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 4 - Part 2, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) discusses artificial intelligence and AIOps ...

March 21, 2024

In the course of EMA research over the last twelve years, the message for IT organizations looking to pursue a forward path in AIOps adoption is overall a strongly positive one. The benefits achieved are growing in diversity and value ...

March 20, 2024

Today, as enterprises transcend into a new era of work, surpassing the revolution, they must shift their focus and strategies to thrive in this environment. Here are five key areas that organizations should prioritize to strengthen their foundation and steer themselves through the ever-changing digital world ...

March 19, 2024

If there's one thing we should tame in today's data-driven marketing landscape, this would be data debt, a silent menace threatening to undermine all the trust you've put in the data-driven decisions that guide your strategies. This blog aims to explore the true costs of data debt in marketing operations, offering four actionable strategies to mitigate them through enhanced marketing observability ...

March 18, 2024

Gartner has highlighted the top trends that will impact technology providers in 2024: Generative AI (GenAI) is dominating the technical and product agenda of nearly every tech provider ...

March 15, 2024

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 4 - Part 1, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) discusses artificial intelligence and network management ...