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Ixia Selected by Stoke, Inc. for Testing Advanced Mobile Broadband Protocols and Applications

The Stoke Session Exchange (SSX) is a highly reliable, high density gateway platform designed and developed to deliver a wide range of network gateway functions that meet the challenges of rapidly growing mobile broadband data services for 3G and LTE network deployments.

"Our SSX devices allow operators to manage the growing capacity challenges of today's 3G networks, while ensuring a smooth transition to the rigorous 4G/LTE environment. Handling GTP at scale is not only necessary for key 3G core elements, but for new data offload applications as well, and GTP will remain integral to LTE deployments," said David Arnold, vice president of engineering, Stoke. "Ixia has been a good partner for Stoke, working jointly to push the performance envelope of mobile network test equipment. Ixia's IxNetwork test solution enables us to validate our ability to reliably process GTP for mobile data offload deployments today, while paving the way for expanding the SSX's role in LTE's evolved packet core tomorrow."

High capacity wireless networks are required to route and switch huge amounts of traffic. Network equipment manufacturers (NEM) producing devices for such environments must be sure that their equipment not only handles the infrastructure needs of a complex network, but also scales easily - often to massive traffic loads. Network infrastructures must be stressed to see if they can handle traffic volumes common in today's landscape while planning for future capacity needs.

Ixia's IxNetwork - using newly engineered ViperCore technology - is specifically designed to test network infrastructure, capacity, scalability, and convergence. IxNetwork works with Ixia's test platform to transmit and receive control and data traffic to the device under test. It can simulate IPv4 and IPv6 traffic over millions of GTP tunnels while applying dynamic traffic profile control and real-time per-flow analysis across hundreds of test ports at full-line rate.

"Wireless networks are going to be increasingly stressed as more and more data is pushed upstream and downstream by an exponentially increasing number of wireless devices. Ixia understands that NEMs must produce networking equipment that not only meets carrier and service provider expectations, but also scales to accommodate new bandwidth demands," said Jim Smith, Ixia vice president of marketing. "Ixia's IxNetwork is a crucial part of that testing process, as demonstrated by Stoke's successful test of their Session Exchange mobile broadband gateway."

For more information on Ixia's IxNetwork testing solution, see the IxNetwork product page.

About Ixia

Ixia is a leading provider of converged IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services. Ixia's test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments and enterprises to validate the performance and reliability of complex networks, devices and applications. Ixia's multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

About Stoke Networks, Inc.

Stoke develops high capacity, standards-based gateway solutions, providing innovative ways for enabling mobile operators to participate more profitably in the user-to-Internet value chain and improve subscribers' online experience. Stoke solutions intelligently address the onslaught of 3G data growth in all mobile infrastructure domains - Core, Backhaul, and RAN - while also ensuring a smooth migration to LTE. Stoke's solutions address the most pressing challenges of mobile data service delivery, change the status quo, and dramatically reduce costs. For more information, visit www.stoke.com.

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