IXLOAD ® —VOICE TEST

SOLUTION

VALIDATE THAT YOUR VOICE HIGHLIGHTS

SERVICE DELIVERS A HIGH QUALITY
OF CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE • Ensure voice delivery systems
perform at peak loads and conform to
interoperability standards
PROBLEM: MAINTAINING VOICE • Reduce post-deployment issues and
QUALITY IN THE FACE OF customer churn by validating QoE
using in-depth SIP and media
EXPONENTIAL TRAFFIC INCREASE analysis, including subjective quality
of voice (POLQA / PESQ)
Voice delivery over convergent networks has its own
challenges, as quality of experience (QoE) is strongly • Quickly detect and pinpoint
affected by latency and jitter. Measuring real-world call-flow performance issues by emulating
characteristics to quantify how ever-changing traffic complex, real world, multiplay multi-
patterns affect voice is critical to the success of deploying subscriber environments
voice communication solutions. Regardless if the solution
is voice over LTE (VoLTE), unified communication (UC), • Reduce learning curve with library of
call center, telepresence or just regular voice over IP pre-built test cases and intuitive drag-
(VoIP), service providers and enterprises must meet and-drop GUI
consumer QoE expectations. • Increase productivity with embedded
intelligent state machine that
automatically handles test details so
SOLUTION: COMPREHENSIVE test engineers can focus on the
features under test
TESTING FOR VOICE DELIVERY
PLATFORMS
Ixia’s IxLoad is the industry’s most scalable and flexible solution for realistic load testing of VoIP platforms
to validate end-to-end voice delivery architectures. It emulates thousands of user sessions with dynamic
call flows and measures real-time voice quality.

KEY FEATURES:
• Emulate real-world traffic using Ixia’s highly scalable test platform or virtual ports
• Simulate detailed call control state machines, messages, and contents and create any test case,
including negative testing
• Integrate with the real-time transport protocol (RTP) test library to generate voice, conversational
video, and tones, and use a multitude of voice and video codecs to measure voice or video quality
• Fully automate feature and regression testing using the IxLoad TCL, REST, Python or Perl API

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PRODUCT CAPABILITIES

VOICE AND CONVERSATIONAL VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT

IxLoad Voice is the perfect tool for functional, performance, and stability testing of SIP-based VoIP
network components. Because IxLoad supports SIP, SDP, MGCP, H.248, SKINNY, and RTP protocols
with voice codecs, video telephony, and fax in addition to video and data protocols, it can be used to test
a variety of network components in VoIP, IMS, VoLTE and UC topologies.

IxLoad in a typical configuration simulating SIP endpoints and SIP proxy to test a distributed application
layer gateway (ALG)
IxLoad provides IMS system and sub-system developers and providers with a complete solution to verify
all aspect of IMS systems and their components. IxLoad is an invaluable tool for service providers and
network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) for functional, protocol, conformance, regression and
performance testing of end-to-end IMS networks and individual components. A single test can be used
for both functional and load testing, on a single hardware platform.

IxLoad in a typical configuration simulating SIP user endpoints, MMEs, and eNodeBs
for end-to-end LTE / IMS testing

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SCENARIO EDITOR
The variety of implementations and protocol interpretations of VoIP, UC, IMS, and VoLTE solutions poses
interoperability challenges not just for networks, but for testing as well. Test tools need to accommodate
the variations and provide high flexibility in terms of the call flow (sequence of messages). IxLoad’s
Scenario Editor provides a powerful yet intuitive tool to edit the call flow and the content of control
messages. It allows test engineers to address any interoperability issue and emulate any supplemental
service for functional and negative testing. Innovative features allow users to easily create and modify test
scenarios using a complete visual environment in which the technology-specific test functions and
predefined test procedures are represented as visual blocks. Without any prior knowledge of
programming or script languages, users can easily define tests by simple drag-and-drop operations.

Scenario Editor: a test scenario for emualting SIP endpoints originating and terminating calls is
built by connecting functional blocks

The same test scenario can be used, without changes, at low scale or to emulate thousands or millions of
endpoints or subscribers. This is achieved by the parameterization capabilities—the use of variables,
expressions, and control functions—provided by the Scenario Editor.

EVENT VIEWER
IxLoad provides a large set of statistics across metrics of interest for call control and media. However, the
stochastic analysis of voice QoE it is not always sufficient. To identify and debug issues, it is not enough

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to know the percentage of the calls or subscribers with issues, it is important to know which call or
subscriber failed. IxLoad’s Event Viewer contains a great capability to pinpoint the exceptions and errors.

Event Viewer showing the errors for each emulated user endpoint

During a test, Event Viewer displays and logs error events per emulated endpoint, facilitating the
diagnosis and correction of issues. By getting this information right away, test engineers can focus on
addressing the issue instead spending time analyzing massive traffic captures.

SPECIFICATIONS

SIP

IP Support IPv4 and IPv6

Emulation SIP endpoints and user agents, SIP endpoints behind SIP proxies, SIP
servers (proxy, registrar), IMS entities, trunks, gateways

Features • Maintains full control over SIP state machines, messages, and contents;
creates any functional and load test case, including negative testing
• Drag-and-drop GUI permits functional building blocks to be easily
assembled into test cases and call flows with automatic protocol rule
enforcement
• Session timers and message retransmission mechanisms are present
with the option to be disabled by the user
• When in SIP Proxy mode, the module routes the SIP messages based on
content of the SIP messages, following the user defined rules
• When in SIP Proxy mode, the library has the capability to interact with an
HSS emulating the Cx interface
• Supports WebRTC websockets
• Capability to test IMS devices and networks; x-CSCF isolation testing and
emulation

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SIP
• Includes IMS call profiles
• Graceful stop at ramp-down to end all the active calls at the end of test
• Test cases built for functional and feature testing can be reused for stress
testing
• Emulates real-world traffic using Ixia’s highly scalable test platform
• Simultaneously supports data, voice, and video protocols to emulate
multiplay subscriber environments
• Tests a device’s ability to sustain designed load levels or call attempt /
connection rate
• Supports custom load profiles, which contain individual settings for each
call mix element
• Performs call feature interoperability testing
• Provides ladder diagrams and media decoding with built-in packet
capture and analyzer for in-depth SIP and RTP stream analysis
• Ships with library of pre-built test cases and call flows for easier startup

Network Capabilities • Link layer protocols, including PPPoE, IPsec, and DHCP
• Transport layers: UDP, TCP, TLS, WebSocket, Secure WebSocket
• Diffserv type of service (TOS/DSCP)
• Real-world network configurations: multiple sub-networks, unique MAC
addresses, 802.1q, 802.1p, and emulated router support
• VLAN tag with Q-in-Q support
• Configurable MAC addresses

Commands • Atomic, flexible set of commands, to build any call flow:

o Send Request, Send Response, Wait Request, Wait Response, Wait
Message, Retransmit Last message, Extract Variables
• Large set of predefined call flows procedures
• Integration with HTTP for IP Multimedia Evolution (IPME) use cases

Methods • REGISTER, INVITE, ACK, BYE, CANCEL, OPTIONS, NOTIFY,

SUBSCRIBE, REFER, PRACK, INFO, UPDATE, MESSAGE, User-
defined methods

Statistics Detailed user Endpoint, Proxy, Calls, and SIP statistics:

• Number and rate of Calls, Active endpoints, Fail calls and endpoints

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SIP
• SIP Call Times, SIP Delays, SIP Registrations,
• SIP Registration Rates, SIP Messages, SIP Errors
• VoIP/SIP Errors, SIP Busy Hour Call, SIP Cloud, SIP Other

Media Capabilities • Integrated with the RTP test library to generate voice, DTMF, tones, and
video; supports a multitude of voice codecs and the ability to test voice
quality
• Supports Video Conference and Telepresence
• Emulates SIP endpoints submitting / receiving SMS
• Negotiates sessions with Fax over IP (T.38)
• Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP)

VOLTE

Protocols Supports stateful emulation of SIP and other Layer 7 protocols over eGTP
to provide a comprehensive solution for VoLTE testing:
Control plane
• 3GPP TS 29.274 Evolved General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)
Tunneling Protocol for Control plane (GTPv2-C)
• 3GPP TS 29.281 GPRS Tunneling Protocol User Plane (GTPv1-U)
• IPv4 transport

Protocols User plane • RTP, SRTP

• SMS, MSRP

LTE Access • User equipment (UE) Category 1 – 4

Features
• UE Category 5 under 2x2 MIMO
• FDD and TDD
• All 3GPP R8 2009 specifications
• 3GPP R9 June and December 2010 specifications
• All LTE FDD and TDD frequency bands
• All TDD configurations and SSF configurations
• Transmission modes; SISO, Tx Diversity, 2x2 MIMO and Beamforming
• 5, 10, 15, 20 MHz channel bandwidth support

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VOLTE
• QPSK, 16QAM and 64QAM modulation schemes
• NAS compression and ciphering
• Full DL/UL HARQ capability
• Semi-persistent scheduling
• UE power control, group hopping
• Frequency hopping modes 0, 2, 4
• Automatic configuration of MIB/SIB parameters
• Support for default and dedicated bearers, with a maximum of 11 per UE
• UE initiated dedicated bearer creation, modification and deletion
• Network initiated dedicated bearer creation, modification
• Dynamic IP address allocation during session establishment
• Supports all LTE handover types
• Configuration of QoS and TFT per layer 7 activity

GTP-c Features • Support for default and dedicated bearers, with a maximum of 11 per UE
• UE/MME initiated dedicated bearer creation, modification and deletion
• Network initiated dedicated bearer creation, modification
• Echo request and response
• Dynamic IP address allocation during session establishment
• Ability to configure the number of simulated MMEs and eNodeBs
• Supports eNodeB (X2) handovers with configurable event intervals and
mobility paths between eNodeBs
• Supports S1-based handovers with indirect data forwarding tunnels
• Configuration of IMSI, MSISDN, IMEISV, RAC/LAC/TAC, MCC/MNC
• Configuration of QoS and TFT per layer 7 activity
• Prebuilt TFTs are supplied, with the ability to manually override with user
TFT definition

WEBRTC

Versions Long Polling

WebSockets

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WEBRTC

IP Support IPv4, IPv6

Emulation WebRTC initiator or responder

Features • Emulates thousands of browsers interacting with an WebRTC server at

unprecedented scale
• Leverages the performance of Ixia’s scalable CloudStorm and
PerfectStorm test platforms
• Allows creation of customized media capabilities to exercise a wide range
of emulated endpoints
• Provides extensive real-time statistics including detailed signaling and
media information
• Simplifies call flow definition by using automatic handlers for initiated and
responded requests
• Offers flexible test configuration for emulated endpoint identity with
support for user-defined Phone Book
• Allows extensive validation of network capabilities with discreet control for
endpoint solicited services at initial registration
• Evaluates the user service experience using comprehensive QoE
measurement and analysis for exchanged voice and video media
• Gives immediate feedback on abnormal network reactions through test
event notifications
• Emulates the interaction between thousands of browser-over-RESTful
APIs and the WebRTC server at massive-scale performance, allowing
qualification of the desired platform for WebRTC deployment
• Exercises the entire ecosystem behavior to validate end-to-end service
delivery, leveraging Ixia’s CloudStorm and PerfectStorm test platforms to
simulate massive-scale realistic traffic
• Allows custom declaration of capabilities and a wider range of interoperability
scenarios through configuration control of SDP negotiation parameters
• Supports ICE

Network Capabilities • Signaling transport layers: TCP, UDP, and TLS

• Application signaling layer: HTTP and HTTPS
• Real-world network configuration: multiple IP networks, unique MAC
addresses, and VLAN tag support
• Includes support for DTLS 1.1 and DTLS1.2
• Includes support for STUN

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WEBRTC

Commands Make Call, Accept Call, End Call, Reject Call, Initiate Modify, Receive Modify,
and Media Session

Statistics • Active Calls, Registration, Event Channel, Call Statistics

• Latencies, Session Modifications, Errors, HTTP Requests
• DTLS Handshakes, DTLS Latency, TCP, TCP Failures
• RTP QoS, RTP Advanced QoS, RTP Jitter and Delay
• RTP Jitter Distributions, RTP MOS
• RTP MOS per Call Distribution
• RTP MOS Instant, SRTP
• RTP Consecutive Lost Datagram Distribution
• Video RTP QoS, Video SRTP

Media Capabilities • Integrated with the RTP test library to generate voice, DTMF, tones and
video. Supports a multitude of voice codecs and the ability to test voice
quality.
• Supports Video Telephony and Cisco Telepresence
• DTLS support for SRTP key negotiation

H.248 (MEGACO)

Version H.248 v1, v2 or v3 user selectable

Transport UDP

Emulation Media Gateways and Media Gateway Controllers

Features • Maintains full control over H.248 state machines, messages, and contents.
Allows the creation of any test case, including negative testing.
• Drag and drop GUI permits functional building blocks to be easily assembled
into test cases and call flows with automatic protocol rule enforcement
• Tests a device’s ability to sustain designed load levels
• Supports custom load profiles, which contain individual settings for each call
mix element
• Supports call feature testing under load
• Performs call feature interoperability testing
• Provides ladder diagrams and media decoding with built-in packet capture and
analyzer for in-depth H.248 and RTP stream analysis
• Ships with library of pre-built test cases and call flows for easier startup

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H.248 (MEGACO)

Network Capabilities • Link layer protocols, including PPPoE, IPsec, and DHCP
• Diffserv type of service (TOS/DSCP)
• Real-world network configurations: multiple sub-networks, unique MAC
addresses, 802.1q, 802.1p, and emulated router support
• VLAN tag with Q-in-Q support
• Configurable MAC addresses

H.248 Profiles • "ETSI_ARGW" – ETSI H.248 Profile for controlling Access and
Residential Gateways (NGN Release 1) / Reference doc: ETSI ES 283
002 V1.1.3 (2007-07)
• "ETSI_GateControl" – ETSI H.248 Profile for controlling gates between IP
transport domains / Reference doc: ETSI TS 102 333 V1.2.0 (2008-01)
• "ETSI_BGF" – ETSI H.248 Profile for controlling Border Gateway
Functions (BGF) in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem
(RACS) v1 / Reference doc: MSF-IA-MEGACO.009-FINAL
• "ETSI_BGF" – ETSI H.248 Profile for controlling Border Gateway
Functions (BGF) in the Resource and Admission Control Subsystem
(RACS) v2 / Reference doc: ETSI ES 283 018 V2.3.0 (2008-05)
• "ETSI_TGW"– ETSI H.248 Profile for controlling Trunking Media
Gateways / Reference doc: ETSI ES 283 024 V1.1.4 (2007-07)
• "MSF TGW" – MSF H.248 Profile for controlling an IP Trunking Gateway
(Implementation Agreement Between a Call Agent and an IP Trunking
Gateway) / Reference doc: MSF-IA-MEGACO.003.01-FINAL
• "MSFR3TGW” – MSF H.248 Profile for controlling Trunking Media
Gateways (Implementation Agreement for a MSFR3 MGC-2 Interface) /
Reference doc: MSF-IA-MEGACO.011-FINAL
• "MSF_BGF" – MSF H.248 Profile for Distributed Session Border
Gateways (S-SBG/P-CSC to D-SBG Interface Implementation
Agreement) / Reference doc: ETSI ES 283 018 V1.1.4 (2007-10)
• "MSFUKAG" – MSF H.248 Profile for multi-service Access Gateway /
Reference doc: MSF-IA-MEGACO.005-FINAL

H.248 Packages • Basic

• ETSI_ARGW/1
• ETSI_GateControl/1
• ETSI_TGW/1
• MSF TGW/1
• MSFR3TGW/1

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H.248 (MEGACO)
• ETSI_BGF/1
• ETSI_BGF /2
• MSF_BGF/1
• MSFUKAG/1

Commands • Add, Modify, Subtract, Move, AuditCap, AuditVal

Simulated MGC
• SrvChange(MGC), Wait SrvChange(MGC), Wait Notify
• WaitRequests(MGC)

Commands • Wait Add, Wait Modify, Wait Subtract, Wait Move

Simulated MGW
• Wait AuditCap, Wait AuditVal, SrvChange(MGW)
• Wait SrvChange(MGW), Notify, WaitRequests(MGW)

Statistics Detailed Media Gateway and Media Gateway Controller Statistics:

• Number and rates of H.248 commands, transactions, retransmissions,
protocol errors, received requests & replies

Media Capabilities • Integrated with the RTP test library to generate voice, DTMF, tones, and
video. Supports a multitude of voice codecs and the ability to test voice
and video quality

MGCP

Version • MGCP 0.1, MGCP 1.0

• NCS 1.0, NCS 1.5 TGCP 1.0

Emulation Media Gateways and Call Agents

Features • Maintains full control over MGCP state machines, messages, and
contents. Allows the creation of any test case, including negative testing.
• Permits easy assembly of functional building blocks into test cases and call
flows with automatic protocol rule enforcement through a drag and drop GUI
• Tests a device’s ability to sustain designed load levels
• Supports custom load profiles, which contain individual settings for each
call mix element
• Supports call feature testing under load
• Performs call feature interoperability testing
• Ships with library of pre-built test cases and call flows for easier startup

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MGCP

Network Capabilities • Link layer protocols, including PPPoE, IPsec, and DHCP
• Diffserv type of service (TOS/DSCP)
• Real-world network configurations: multiple sub-networks, unique MAC
addresses, 802.1q, 802.1p, and emulated router support
• VLAN tag with Q-in-Q support
• Configurable MAC addresses

Commands • Send CRCX, Send DLCX (CA), Send MDCX, Send RQNT
Simulated CA
• Send AUEP, Send AUCX, Send EPCF, Wait NTFY
• Wait DLCX (CA), Wait Command (CA), Wait RSIP

Commands • Send NTFY, Send DLCX (CA), Send RSIP, Wait CRCX
Simulated MGW
• Wait DLCX (GW), Wait MDCX, Wait RQNT, Wait AUEP
• Wait AUCX, Wait EPCF, Wait Command (GW)

Statistics Detailed Media Gateway and Call Agent Statistics:

• Number and rates of MGCP transactions, calls, commands, responses,
messages, errors
• Call times for CA and GW

Media Capabilities • Integrated with the RTP test library to generate voice, DTMF, tones, and
video. Supports a multitude of voice codecs and the ability to test voice
and video quality

SCCP (SKINNY)

Version Cisco SCCP version 5.0

Emulation SCCP Phones

Features • Assembles fully featured SCCP clients by simulating Cisco Skinny

phones
• Supports call signaling: originate, answer, terminate calls, and advanced
features

• Maintains full control over SCCP state machines, messages, and

contents. Allows the creation of any test case, including negative testing.

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SCCP (SKINNY)
• Tests the call manager’s ability to sustain designed load levels
• Supports custom load profiles, which contain individual settings for each
call mix element
• Supports call feature testing under load
• Performs call feature interoperability testing
• Simulates device stations: 7902, 7910, 7935, 7940, 7960, 30 SP+,
12SP +, 12 SP, 12 S, 30 VIP, VGC
• Ships with library of pre-built test cases and call flows for easier startup

Network Capabilities • Link layer protocols, including PPPoE, IPsec, and DHCP
• Diffserv type of service (TOS/DSCP)
• Real-world network configurations: multiple sub-networks, unique MAC
addresses, 802.1q, 802.1p, and emulated router support
• VLAN tag with Q-in-Q support
• Configurable MAC addresses

Commands • High Level Functions:

o Register Client, UnRegister Client, Make Call, New Call
o Wait Call, Answer Call, End Call, Hold Call, On Hook
o Off Hook, Retrieve Call, Setup Transfer, Complete Transfer
o Remove Last Conference Party, Meet Me, Dial Digits
o Wait Digits, Transfer, Forward All Calls, Get Call Info
• Low Level Functions:
o Send Stimulus, Send Softkey, IsSoftKeyAvailable, Wait for Event

Statistics • Registration Rates, Registration Counters

• Registration Times, Busy Hour Call
• Call Rates, Call Counters, Call Time, Delays
• Errors, Channels, Loops

Media Capabilities • Integrated with the RTP test library to generate voice, DTMF and tones.
Supports a multitude of voice codecs and the ability to test voice quality.

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VOICE QUALITY ASSESMENT

IP Support IPv4 and IPv6

Features • The RTP/SRTP engine and the voice and tones functions are integrated
with all VoIP signaling modules
• media capabilities are negotiated during the call setup phase using the
automated generated or user defined SDP
• Maintains control of SDP state and generates media accordingly the SDP
negotiated parameters
• Performs real time quality of service measurement using various metrics:
o MOS R-Factor for audio,
o PESQ Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality
o POLQA Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Assessment
• Plays real media clips and any user defined sequence of tones
• Detects and validate tone sequences
• Supports multiple type of media in same call and same test

Network Capabilities • Link layer protocols including: PPPoE, IPsec, DHCP, GTP
• Diffserv type of service (TOS/DSCP) for each type of traffic
• Real-world network configurations: multiple sub-networks
o unique MAC addresses
o 802.1q
o 802.1p
o and emulated router support
• VLAN tag with Q-in-Q support
• Configurable MAC addresses

Commands • Voice Session, Talk, Listen, Multimedia Session

• Path Confirmation
• Generate DTMF, Detect DTMF
• Generate MF (Multi Frequency Tone), Detect MF
• Generate Tone, Wait for Tone
• RTP Control

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VOICE QUALITY ASSESMENT

Audio Codecs • G.711 uLaw & ALaw

• AMR-NB & AMR-WB
o Codec mode:
AMR-NB: 0 (4.75 Kbps) to 7 (12.20 Kbps)
AMR-WB: 0 (6.660 Kbps) to 8 (23.85 Kbps)
o Payload format: Octet aligned or Bandwidth efficient
o Mode Change capabilities
• G.723
o transmission rate: 5.3Kbps or 6.3Kbps
• G.726
o transmission rate: 16Kbps, 24Kbps, 32Kbps or 40Kbps
• G.729
o codec mode: A, B or A/B
• EVRC
• EVS
• ILBC
• AAC-LD
• OPUS
• Custom codec
o Imports and play back any RTP stream from a traffic capture file. It
plays the RTP stream at the same rate, ptime, and with the same
payload type as in capture file; any of these parameters can be
also set by user.

PESQ • Real-time Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality

• PESQ (P.862.1) and Active level (P.56) metrics
• Predefined balanced set of voice clips covering English’s phonemes

POLQA • Perceptual Objective Listening Quality Assessment

• ITU-T Rec. P.863
• Predefined balanced set of voice clips covering English’s phonemes

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VOICE QUALITY ASSESMENT

Tones • Real time Generation and Detection of DTMF (Dual Tone Multiple
Frequency), MF (Multi-Frequency tones) or Single Tones sequences
• User configurable sequences
• User configurable MF and Single tones
• In band and out of band tone transmission
• 2833 Events and 2833 Tones

RTCP • RTCP packets are sent automatically

• Sending the RTCP packets may be disabled by user

SRTP • Conform with RFC3711

• Audio traffic over SRTP
• Crypto-suites:
o NULL_128_NULL _32
o AES_CM_128_SHA1_32
o AES_CM_128_SHA1_80
o AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_32
o AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80
• DTLS Support

Statistics • RTP Audio QoS, Delays, RTP Audio Advanced QoS

• RTP Packet Errors, RTP DTMF, MF and Tone
• RTP Audio MOS, Jitter Distribution
• R-Factor and MOS degradation
• RTP Consecutive Lost Datagram Distribution
• RTP Playbacks and Records
• Path Confirmation Errors, Path Confirmation Overall
• Negotiated Codec Distribution
• Negotiated Out Od Band Codec Distribution
• Negotiated Packet Times Distribution
• PESQ, PESQ distribution, P.56 measurements
• POLQA scores

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CONVERSATIONAL VIDEO QUALITY ASSESMENT

IP Support IPv4 and IPv6

Features • The RTP/SRTP engine and the conversational video functions are
integrated with SIP - including VoLTE and WebRTC - H.248, MGCP and
Skinny libraries;
• media capabilities are negotiated during the call setup phase using the
automated generated or user defined SDP
• Maintains control of SDP state and generates media accordingly the SDP
negotiated parameters
• Performs real time quality of video (VQMon)
• Plays real media clips from an open pool of video clips
• Supports Cisco Telepresencetm endpoint emulation
• Support for Multiple stream per endpoint
• Speaker rotation scheme for video conferencing testing:
o All speak, Sequential, Random
• Supports multiple type of media in same call and same test

Network Capabilities • Link layer protocols including: PPPoE, IPsec, DHCP, GTP
• Diffserv type of service (TOS/DSCP) for each type of traffic
• Real-world network configurations: multiple sub-networks
o unique MAC addresses
o 802.1q
o 802.1p
o and emulated router support
• VLAN tag with Q-in-Q support
• Configurable MAC addresses

Commands • Multimedia Session

• RTP Control

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CONVERSATIONAL VIDEO QUALITY ASSESMENT

Video Codecs • H.263

• H.264—AVC and SVC
• H.265
• VP8
Video Codec Formats:
SQCIF, QCIF, QVGA, 525 SIF, CIF, 525 HHR, 625 HHR, VGA, 525
4SIF, 525 SD, 4CIF, 625 SD, SVGA, XGA, 720p HD, 4VGA, SXGA,
525 16SIF, 16CIF, 4SVGA, 1080 HD, 2Kx1K, 2Kx1080, 4XGA, 16VGA,
3616x1536 (2.35:1), 3672x1536 (2.39:1), 4Kx2K, 4096x2304 (16:9)
Video Codec Profiles
Baseline (66)”, Main (77), Extended, High Profile (HiP), High 10 (H10P),
High 4:2:2 (H422P), High 4:4:4 (H444P), Scalable Baseline Profile
Packetization modes of NAL Units:
Single NALU, STAP – A, Fragmented Unit – A

RTCP • RTCP packets are sent automatically

• Sending the RTCP packets may be disabled by user

SRTP • Conform with RFC3711

• Audio traffic over SRTP
• Crypto-suites:
o NULL_128_NULL _32
o AES_CM_128_SHA1_32
o AES_CM_128_SHA1_80
o AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_32
o AES_CM_128_HMAC_SHA1_80
• DTLS Support

Statistics • Video VQmon, Video QoS

• Video Consecutive Lost Datagram Distribution
• Video Playbacks

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PLATFORM OPTIONS
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IXLOAD PLATFORM OPTIONS

Virtual Platform • IxLoad Virtual Edition (VE)

Chassis • XGS-12 HS/HSL/SD/SDL Chassis

• XGS-2 HS/HSL/SD/SDL Chassis

Load Modules • CloudStorm Fusion 10GE, 40GE, 25GE, & 100GE

• CloudStorm 10GE, 40GE, 25GE, & 100GE
• PerfectStorm Fusion 10/1GE, 40GE, & 100GE
• PerfectStorm 10/1GE, 40GE, & 100GE
• Novus-NP 10G/1G/100M
• Novus 10G/1G/100M
• Novus 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M
• Xcellon-Ultra NP
• NGY-NP SFP+/BASE-T 10GE
• XMVDC Dual PHY 1GE

Appliances • PerfectStorm ONE Fusion 10/1GE, 40GE, & 100GE

• PerfectStorm ONE 10/1GE, 40GE & 100GE
• Novus ONE Appliance

Note: Some of the IxLoad Voice features are available only on specific load modules

TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
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IXLOAD TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

• IxLoad Overview—Converged Multiplay Service Validation

• IxLoad Virtual Edition (VE) L4-7 Application Performance Testing
• IxLoad Data Test Solution
• IxLoad Video Test Solution
• IxLoad Voice Test Solution
• IxLoad IPsec and Network Access Test Solution
• IxLoad on AWS – Cloud Application Performance Testing

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IXLOAD ORDERING INFORMATION

CHASSIS LICENSES

PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION

925-3371 IxLoad Multiplay-Security-2016, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test

Application Data-Video-Voice-Security package. Includes:
• Data: Enables support for HTTP, HTTPS, TCP Session, FTP, DNS, Mail
(SMTP, POP3 and IMAP), Database, SSH, RADIUS, TFTP, Application-
Replay, DHCP, LDAP, Telnet, Stateless-Peer and StreamBlaster emulations.
• Video: Enables support for basic RTSP, IPTV (Multicast), Video-ADVANCED
(VoD), Adobe Flash Client, Apple HLS Client, Microsoft Silverlight Client,
Adobe HDS Client and DASH Client emulations. Includes Video Quality
VQMON engine for up to 10Gbps and TCP VQ Video quality for TCP video
traffic for up to 10 Gbps.
• Voice: Advanced VoIP SIP & RTP, Audio Codecs, VoLTE extensions, and
Bulk SIP & MGCP. Includes: Voice Quality engine for up to 10Gbps, Video
Quality engine for up to 10Gbps conversational video traffic.
• ADVNET: Enables support for Advanced Access networking protocols such
as DHCP for IP address acquisition, DHCP Server, PPP, L2TP and IPsec.
• Storage: iSCSI, CIFSv1, CIFSv2 (SMB2), SMB3, NFSv3 Client, NFSv4
Client, NFS4.1 Client, Cloud Storage Client, DCBX, FCoE and FC; Note the
FCoE and FC emulation is only supported on selected load modules.
• Access: DHCP, PPP, L2TP, L2TP, IPsec, IPsec Performance Benchmarking
QuickTest & SuiteB Cryptographic, 6RD, DSLITE and IPv6 SLAAC, 8021X,
NAC and WEBAUTH.
• Security: Enables support for a collection of vulnerabilities and malware
attacks with 1-year subscription service and DDoSv2.
• Software Impairment.
Note: some of the features are available only on specific load modules

925-3341 IxLoad Voice-ADV-2015, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test

Application; Enables comprehensive VoIP protocols, it includes Advanced VoIP
SIP & RTP, Audio Codecs, Video Conference, Video Codecs, Telepresence,
MSRP, and VoLTE extensions. Also includes 925-3528 Voice Quality engine for
up to 10Gbps, 925-3512 Video Quality engine for up to 10Gbps conversational
video traffic and AVDNET-DHCP to emulate DHCP enabled clients. Also includes
Skinny, H.248, Advanced MGCP, T.38 (Fax over IP), and Bulk SIP & MGCP and
Software Impairment on selected hardware.

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PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION

925-3372 IxLoad Voice over LTE-2016, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test
Application. Enables VoIP protocols for VoLTE testing. Includes: Advanced SIP &
RTP, Audio Codecs, WebRTC, IPsec and VoLTE extensions. Includes: Voice
Quality engine for up to 10Gbps, Video Quality engine for up to 10Gbps
conversational video traffic, AVDNET-DHCP to emulate DHCP enabled clients
and Software Impairment on selected hardware. Note: some of the features are
available only on specific load modules.

APPLIANCE LICENSES
PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION

925-6321 IxLoad Appliance Multiplay, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test
Application. Enables Data, Storage, Voice, Video and Access & VPN on
PerfectStorm ONE and Novus ONE appliances. Includes:
• 925-6121 IxLoad Appliance DATA & Storage
• 925-6112 IxLoad Appliance VIDEO
• 925-6113 IxLoad Appliance VOICE
• 925-6117 IxLoad Appliance ACCESS & VPN

925-6113 IxLoad Appliance VOICE, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test
Application. Enables IxLoad Voice functionality on PerfectStorm ONE and Novus
ONE appliances. Includes: Advanced SIP: SIP endpoint, Proxy and Cloud
emulation TLS, SRTP Audio, Video Conference, Telepresence, MSRP, 925-3528
Voice Quality engine for up to 10Gbps, 925-3512 Video Quality engine for up to
10Gbps conversational video traffic

VIRTUAL EDITION LICENSES

PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION

939-9513 IxLoad VE Tier-3 1G Floating SUBSCRIPTION License. Includes the following

IxLoad protocols supported on IxLoad VE for a duration of 1-Year: Data (HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, TFTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Radius), Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP),
Storage (SMB, NFS, iSCSI, Storage I/O), Voice (VoIP SIP, VoLTE), Video
(DASH, Flash,HDS, HLS, IPTV VoD, MS IPTV, Silverlight), IPsec, IxLoad- Attack
and IxLoad-AppLibrary. Enables 1 Gig throughput per unit.

939-9533 IxLoad VE Tier-3 10G Floating SUBSCRIPTION License. Includes the following
IxLoad protocols supported on IxLoad VE for a duration of 1-Year: Data (HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, TFTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Radius), Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP),
Storage (SMB, NFS, iSCSI, Storage I/O), Voice (VoIP SIP, VoLTE), Video
(DASH, Flash,HDS, HLS, IPTV VoD, MS IPTV, Silverlight), Ipsec, IxLoad- Attack
and IxLoad-AppLibrary. Enables 10 Gig throughput per unit.

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PART NUMBER DESCRIPTION

939-9514 IxLoad VE Tier-4 1G Floating SUBSCRIPTION License. Includes the following

IxLoad protocols supported on IxLoad VE for a duration of 1-Year: Data (HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, TFTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Radius), Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP),
Storage (SMB, NFS, iSCSI, Storage I/O), Voice (VoIP SIP, VoLTE), Video
(DASH, Flash,HDS, HLS, IPTV VoD, MS IPTV, Silverlight), IPsec, IxLoad- Attack
and IxLoad-AppLibrary. Includes EPC and WiFi Offload protocols. Enables 1 Gig
throughput per unit.

939-9534 IxLoad VE Tier-4 10G Floating SUBSCRIPTION License. Includes the following
IxLoad protocols supported on IxLoad VE for a duration of 1-Year: Data (HTTP,
HTTPS, FTP, TFTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, Radius), Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP),
Storage (SMB, NFS, iSCSI, Storage I/O), Voice (VoIP SIP, VoLTE), Video
(DASH, Flash,HDS, HLS, IPTV VoD, MS IPTV, Silverlight), IPsec, IxLoad- Attack
and IxLoad-AppLibrary. Includes EPC and WiFi Offload protocols. Enables 10
Gig throughput per unit.

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