CALABASAS, Calif. -- Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) has collaborated with Developing Solutions to validate and harden the mobile core to accelerate application delivery across growing LTE networks. The market-leading IxLoad solution now leverages Developing Solutions’ technology to promote high-performance testing of Diameter signaling– used for policy, charging and subscriber management– and deliver actionable insight into difficult-to-predict LTE signaling traffic.Mobile operators face a major challenge in coping with surging traffic that can overwhelm infrastructures, which causes network outages and critical billing issues. Since these failures most often occur at high scale or under extreme conditions, Ixia provides mobile operators the solutions needed to proactively assess and validate the performance, resilience and scalability of LTE network cores and charging systems prior to live deployment. “As LTE network traffic continues to explode with subscriber numbers, smartphone usage and media-rich applications all on the rise, mobile operators have the opportunity to maximize revenue by rolling out premium differentiated services. This requires that they can reliably scale the Diameter core, including routing, policy, charging and subscriber management,” said John Minnis, vice president at Developing Solutions. “We are thrilled to collaborate with Ixia to provide mobile operators a complete test solution for bearer and signaling traffic.” Ixia