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IxLoadTM: Data – HTTP, HTTP/2, SSL, and FTP
Web and mobile applications continue to fuel Internet traffic growth. To support this growth, enterprises and service providers must validate and tune their content-aware application delivery networks to handle the scale and performance challenges associated with SSL transactions, steaming media, and other Web 2.0 content. Especially with the introduction of HTTP/2 and its focus on better end user experience and security, it is paramount for network operators to understand the bottleneck of this new technology introduction.
Key Benefits
Rollout new web applications and services with confidence, knowing the limits of your infrastructure
Speed time to insight of performance and security issues for fast resolution
Minimize post-production issues and improve end user experience
Key Features
Highly scalable HTTP, HTTP/2, SSL, and FTP protocol emulation
In-depth protocol emulation to simulate realistic user and application behavior
Independent and multiprotocol performance, session capacity, and transaction latency measurement
Ixia’s IxLoad tests the scalability and performance of content-aware networks and devices by emulating HTTP, HTTP/2, SSL, and FTP clients and servers. Network operators use IxLoad to:
Test the performance limits and long-term stability of content-aware devices such as application delivery controllers, web servers, firewalls, web caches, and WAN acceleration devices
Measure the ability of a multiservice transport network to deliver data, voice, and video by intermixing data traffic with delay- and jitter-sensitive multimedia traffic
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Features and Specifications HTTP/2 Version
HTTP 2.0
IP Support
IPv4 and IPv6
Emulation
Client and server
Features
Supports HTTP cookies and HTTP redirection on HTTP/2 clients
Supports HPACK compression/decompression on HTTP/s clients
Supports all mandated frame types (except PRIORITY)
Option to enable/disable SSL
Support for ALPN
Option to use multiple streams per connections
Supports playlists that easily create large numbers of user sessions and URLs with unique credentials
User realism with control of HTTP commands using transaction aborts and “Think” times
Configurable TOS and DSCP bit settings
User-configurable HTTP server page responses
Support for customizing response code, page size, and page content on servers
Supported only on PerfectStorm and PerfectStorm ONE hardware
Commands
GET, HEADER, PUT, POST, and DELETE
Web Browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/6, Mozilla, Firefox, and Safari; and custom headers that can be saved and reused
Statistics
Detailed metrics such as average server response times and total transaction times in addition to HTTP state level and HTTP response code statistics
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HTTP Version
HTTP 1.0, HTTP 1.1
IP Support
IPv4 and IPv6
Emulation
Client and server
Features
Supports HTTP pipelining, cookies, and HTTP redirection
Supports proxy server commands
Supports decompression on HTTP clients
Supports Content-MD5 integrity check
Supports Chunked Encoding processing on HTTP clients
Option to use multiple TCP connections per user
User realism with control of HTTP commands using transaction aborts and “Think” times
User-defined pages on HTTP server
Supports sequence generators and playlists that easily create large numbers of user sessions and URLs with unique credentials
Data integrity validation that pinpoints the exact offset of data corruption during transit
Data randomization with user-defined Hot/Cold/Warm and Compressibility profiles to validate WAN optimizers’ data reduction performance and application latency improvements
Configurable TOS and DSCP bit settings
Configurable HTTP headers for each request
Inspection of data payloads for user-specified text
Option for HTTP servers to listen on multiple TCP ports
User-configurable HTTP server page responses
Support for customizing response code, page size, cookies, and page content on servers
Commands
GET, POST, HEADER, PUT, and DELETE
Web Browsers
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5/6, Mozilla, Firefox, and Safari; and custom headers that can be saved and reused
Statistics
Detailed metrics such as average server response times and total transaction times in addition to HTTP state level and HTTP response code statistics
Per-URL statistics
Per-IP and Per-VLAN statistics
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SSL Version
SSLv3.0, TLS v1.1, TLS v1.2
Features
SSL session reuse
Selectable ciphers for SSL handshake
Configurable client- and server-side certificates for HTTPS connections
Supports DH ephemeral key exchange
Configurable SSL record size per transaction
Detailed metrics such as average server response times and total transaction times in addition to SSL state level and SSL response code statistics
Per-URL statistics
Statistics
FTP IP Support
IPv4 and IPv6
Emulation
Client and server
Modes
Active and Passive
Commands
LOGIN, PASSWORD, CD, GET, MKD, RETRIEVE, PUT, STORE, QUIT
Features
Configurable TOS and DSCP bit settings
Option for FTP server to listen on multiple TCP ports
User-defined pages on FTP server
User realism with control of FTP commands and timing using “Think” times
Statistics
Detailed metrics such as average server response times and total transaction times in addition to FTP state level statistics
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Ordering Information Chassis Licenses: 925-3336 IxLoad PLUS-2015, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test Application; Enables support for HTTP, HTTPS, TCP Session, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP and Telnet emulations. Also includes support for ADVNETDHCP to emulate DHCP enabled clients and Software Impairment on selected hardware. 925-3337 IxLoad Data-ADV-2015, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test Application; Advanced data package enables support for HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, FTP, DNS, Mail (SMTP, POP3 and IMAP), SSH, RADIUS, TFTP, Application-Replay DHCP, LDAP, Telnet and Stateless-Peer emulations. Also includes HTTP QuickTest and ADVNET-DHCP to emulate DHCP enabled clients. Also includes Stream Blaster and Software Impairment on selected hardware. 925-3359 IxLoad Multiplay-2015, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test Application; Data-Video-Voice package includes: Data: Enables support for HTTP, HTTPS, TCP Session, FTP, DNS, Mail (SMTP, POP3 and IMAP), 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 925-3189 Video Quality VQMON engine for up to 10Gbps and 925-3193 TCP VQ – Video quality for TCP video traffic for up to 10 Gbps; Voice: Advanced VoIP SIP & RTP, Audio Codecs, H.323, VoLTE extensions, and Bulk SIP & MGCP. Also includes 925-3528 Voice Quality engine for up to 10Gbps, 925-3512 Video Quality engine for up to 10Gbps conversational video traffic; Access: Enables support for Advanced Access networking protocols such as DHCP for IP address acquisition, DHCP Server, PPP, L2TP and IPsec. Note: StreamBlaster, H.323 and Bulk SIP & MGCP are supported on selected load modules
Appliance Licenses: 925-6111 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE Data, Software, Layer 4-7 Performance Test Application; includes: 925-6101 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE BASIC (HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, ADVNET-DHCP, Stateless Peer) FTP, DHCP, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, TFTP, App-Replay, TCPsession HTTP Quick Test, RFC 3511 Quick Test Requires: IxLoad Framework, 925-0001. Free with adjoining software purchase. 925-6321 IxLoad, PerfectStorm ONE Multiplay, Software Bundle, Layer 4-7 Performance Test Application; Data, Voice, Video, Access, VPN and Storage bundle for PerfectStorm ONE appliances. Includes: 925-6111 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE DATA, 925-6112 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE VIDEO, 925-6113 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE VOICE, 925-6114 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE AUTH, 925-6115 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE VPN/ACCESS, and 925-6116 IxLoad PerfectStorm ONE STORAGE
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IxVM Licenses: 939-9511 IxVM, IxLoad Tier-1 FLOATING Subscription license. Includes the following IxLoad protocols supported on IxVM for the purchased term (List price is per unit, per year). HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, TFTP, Radius, Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP). REQUIRES: License term to be specified (MUST be purchased in multiples of years). Enables 1Gig throughput per unit. INCLUDES IxVM Software Platform Framework, FLOATING. Enables support for IxVM IxServer. 939-9512 IxVM, IxLoad Tier-2 FLOATING Subscription license. Includes the following IxLoad protocols supported on IxVM for the purchased term (List price is per unit, per year). HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, TFTP, Radius, Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP), Storage. REQUIRES: License term to be specified (MUST be purchased in multiples of years). Enables 1Gig throughput per unit. INCLUDES IxVM Software Platform Framework, FLOATING. Enables support for IxVM IxServer. 939-9513 IxVM, IxLoad Tier-3 FLOATING Subscription license. Includes the following IxLoad protocols supported on IxVM for the purchased term (List price is per unit, per year). HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, TFTP, Radius, Mail (IMAP, POP3, SMTP), Storage, IxLoad-Attack and AppLibrary. REQUIRES: License term to be specified (MUST be purchased in multiples of years). Enables 1Gig throughput per unit. INCLUDES IxVM Software Platform Framework, FLOATING. Enables support for IxVM IxServer
This material is for informational purposes only and subject to change without notice. It describes Ixia's present plans to develop and make available to its customers certain products, features, and capabilities. Ixia is only obligated to provide those deliverables specifically included in a written agreement between Ixia and the customer.
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