Ixia Announces Test Platform

LAS VEGAS -- NetWorld+Interop -- Ixia (Nasdaq:XXIA), a leading provider of high-speed, multi-port network performance analysis systems, today introduced Optixia, the industry's first network performance analyzer and traffic generator to offer up to 480 ports of 10/100 Mbps Ethernet or 240 ports of Gigabit Ethernet in one chassis. This innovative performance analysis platform is targeted at the urgent analysis needs of Network Equipment Manufacturers and Carriers for extremely high port count next generation switches and routers at the point of convergence in today's LAN, MAN and WAN environment.

"Optixia offers our customers the kind of comprehensive solution for performance verification that simply wasn't available before," said Errol Ginsberg, president and chief executive officer of Ixia. "As the need for very high port count networks and network equipment increases, Optixia offers the highest port density network analysis platform ever created."

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