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Launched IxRave, a patent-pending end-to-end remote Quality of Experience (QOE) and service validation platform
March 12, 2008
CALABASAS, Calif. -- Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA), a leading global provider of IP performance test systems, today launched IxRave™, a patent-pending end-to-end remote Quality of Experience (QoE) and service validation platform. IxRave enables carriers, service providers and enterprises to actively isolate faults, verify that end-customers are receiving services and that such services are working according to SLAs, and then continue to remotely monitor their networks. Bell Canada (NYSE: BCE) worked with Ixia to deploy remote testing capability for rolling out triple play services on its network and achieved payback in just one year. Ixia will demonstrate its new end-to-end remote quality of experience and service validation platform on stand number 144 at IPTV World Forum in London, March 12-14.
Bell Canada uses Ixia remote testing to drastically reduce truck rolls previously required to handle a high number of service incidents associated with the carrier’s DSL service. IxRave is based on the same remote test software and centralized test approach in use at Bell Canada. The carrier reduced IP-related unwarranted truck rolls by 98 percent, a savings to date of CAN$3.2 million. Bell Canada also recovered 86 percent of DSLAM ports previously tagged defective, a further savings of CAN$3.5 million.
“Voice and video services over the fixed broadband network are poised for rapid growth. We forecast global IPTV subscribers will increase from 12.1 million in 2007 to 60.2 million in 2012,” said Patrick Kelly, co-founder and senior analyst at OSS Observer. “Ixia provides active probe testing solutions at the edge and access demarcation points to verify service quality and effectively utilize the remote field workforce.”
Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA)
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