To learn more about IxScriptMate, visit our website at:
http://www . Ixia's vision is to be the
world's preeminent provider of solutions to enable testing of these
"utility-grade" IP networks.
In addition to stateful and stateless DHCPv6 services, Lucent Technologies
also provided stateful and stateless DHCPv6 clients for various operating
systems to facilitate the testing. For more information, visit the organization's Web site
at http://www.

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Key to this release are sophisticated
yet easy-to-use features that automate the test environment, making it
possible for users to seamlessly manage the development and
maintenance of large test environments and to rapidly analyze test
results.com
Ixia(R), the Ixia four petal logo(R), IxExplorer(R), and
Optixia (R) are registered trademarks of Ixia; IxLoad, IxScriptMate,
IxVoice, IxVPN, IxAccess, IxAnalyze, IxANVL, IxAuthenticate, and
IxChariot, are trademarks of Ixia.11b wireless environment.

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About Moonv6
The Moonv6 project is a global effort led by the North American IPv6 Task
Force that includes industry leaders, the UNH-IOL, Internet2 and various U.
government agencies .

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Agoura Road,
Calabasas, CA 91302; (818) 871-1800, Fax: (818) 871-1805; Email:
http://www.

"Carrier-class testing on this scale uncovers possible issues and nuisances
that can be corrected to help clear the way for the commercial deployment of
IPv6 in North America.

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For more information, contact Ixia at 26601 W.iol.

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Multicast, MPLS VPN, and QoS Test Libraries
Extended and Enhanced in IxScriptMate 5.00 features include:

IP multicast test support for MLDv1/v2 (for IPv6 networks) and
IGMPv3

Layer 3 VPN performance test across RFC 2547bis networks, with
scaleable topology definition

Centralized test management to store and manage test
configuration and results

IxScriptMate test suites address all aspects of the product
lifecycle, from development and quality assurance, to manufacturing
and deployment. Successful Multicast Video Testing with the University of New Hampshire-
InterOperability Lab Builds Foundation for IPv6 Commercial Service

DURHAM, N."
As testing for IPv6 moves outside the laboratory environment, many
companies are joining forces to test this real-world scenario.
Experts believe IPv6 will gradually replace IPv4, with the two protocols
co-existing for a number of years during the transition.
France Telecom is the second-largest wireless operator and Internet access
provider in Europe, and a world leader in telecommunications solutions for
multinational corporations.

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Following the test, multiple levels of test analyses can be
executed depending upon the level of detail required. to Durham, NH.
"With our partners, MCI is leading the way for the commercial implementation
of IPv6 and all the benefits that it brings to our customers. Moonv6 is the largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6
network with a footprint extending from New Hampshire to California .
Through its major international brands, including Orange, Wanadoo, Equant and
GlobeCast, France Telecom provides businesses, consumers and other carriers
with a complete portfolio of solutions that spans local, long-distance and
international telephony, wireless, Internet, multimedia, data , broadcast. Test
solutions created at the UNH-IOL offer a set of methods to increase
interoperability through protocol operations, signaling, point-to-point and
multi-system scenarios. For more information , visit the UNH-IOL website at:
http://www.edu .

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IxScriptMate's integrated reporting and graphing capability
is the first application of its type to generate formatted Adobe
Acrobat PDF reports , making it easy to interpret even the most
complicated test results rapidly and accurately. Panasonic provided IPv6 Web-enabled
video cameras at both ends of the network for live video communications .

About MCI, Inc.

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IxScriptMate 5.00 has been designed with robust functionality and
remarkable flexibility for generating and analyzing results during and
after the test. (A stateful protocol
maintains information about a user's session while a stateless one does not.

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and ASHBURN, Va., Known as
the next-generation Internet protocol, IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) has
been proven viable for international business and distance-learning video
applications in joint testing by MCI, Inc . Lucent Technologies
also provided DNS and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6 )
services.

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Ixia (Nasdaq:XXIA), a leading, global provider of IP network
testing solutions , announced today that IxScriptMate, its primary
automated network test application, has been significantly enhanced to
improve efficiency in the automated testing of routers, Layer 2/3
switches, and other IP devices. Support for Dynamic Domain Name Server
Updates was available in Lucent Technologies' DHCPv6 server and clients and
DNS server to facilitate peer-to-peer applications.nav6tf.

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On-the-fly traffic graphs display real-time test
progress. Additionally, MCI
engineers tested IPv6 applications and services such as DNS, Web servers, Web
browsers, videoconferencing using multicast, and IPv6 transport over an IEEE
802. For more information, go to
http://www.

About France Telecom
France Telecom is one of the world's leading telecommunications carriers.

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Via an intuitive graphical interface,
IxScriptMate streamlines essential steps in the test process --
configuration, execution , and analysis. With remarkable simplicity,
IxScriptMate automates management of the entire test environment ,
facilitating data traffic generation, IP routing, filtering,
capturing, and statistics collection ."
IPv6 is addressing limitations of IPv4, the current language of the
Internet, such as limited IP address space needed for the growing number of
devices and private IP-enabled networks connecting to the Internet.
MCI, Inc.

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00 offers an extensive suite of pre-built,
automated tests based on industry-standard RFCs and Layer 2/3
technologies optimized to execute test cases on Ixia's wide range of
purpose-built test platforms.com .S.

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Unique
color-coded pass/fail indicators provide for quick, high-level
assessment of test outcomes, assisting complex post-processing
analysis . Sample test suites include:

-- IETF RFC-based tests following standard performance test
methodologies: RFC 2544, RFC 2889

-- Layer 2/Layer 3 performance and functionality tests including
Quality of Service (QoS), IPv4/IPv6 tunneling, data integrity,
sequence checking, VLAN functionality, and error handling

-- IP/MPLS routing performance and functionality tests: BGP,
OSPF, IP Multicast , LDP, RSVP-TE, Layer 2 VPN (Martini), Layer
3 VPN (RFC 2547 bis), VPLS

Ixia provides with IxScriptMate a powerful and highly
sophisticated Tcl Application Programming Interface (API) to the test
environment for additional customized automation development.
Lucent Technologies contributed the Domain Name Server (DNS)
infrastructure which provided name resolution services for all the major
Moonv6 locations for this round of testing at the UNH in New Hampshire, MCI in
San Jose, Calif .org/.

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Ixia's patented Real World Traffic(TM) Suite
addresses the growing need to test applications and networks prior to
deployment under realistic load conditions.

MCI and France Telecom R+D Demonstrate Multicast Video Application Over Multi-vendor Moonv6 IPv6 Network

The MCI backbone
provided the essential transport and its MAE West facility hosted the IPv6
application servers from France Telecom R+D, Lucent Technologies and
Panasonic. IPv6 is
also expected to add several improvements , such as enhanced network routing,
network auto-configuration and stronger security, while allowing for better
mobility support and more easily enabling renumbering.
The tests performed by MCI also included evaluation of basic protocol
functionality concerning IPv6 extensions to the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP),
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System
(IS-IS) protocol in a dual stack IPv4/IPv6 environment and in a native IPv6
environment.mci.unh .

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Since even the most complex
tests can be executed unattended, including regression testing which
is especially resource intensive, IxScriptMate can be used to greatly
extend test lab capabilities .

Other new IxScriptMate 5. Ixia's testing solutions are used by
Network and Telephony Equipment Manufacturers, Semiconductor
Manufacturers, Service Providers, and large Enterprises to validate
the functionality, and reliability of complex IP networks, devices,
and applications. The tests were performed across multi-vendor platforms for
interoperability validation. MCI engineers executed rigorous test scenarios
to assess the scalability, stability and convergence properties of the IPv6
protocols and equipment in the Moonv6 experimental network.

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Finally, test results
are output as text log and CSV files, which provide the most
comprehensive test information, and which can be leveraged for
customized database analysis and integration. Ixia's analysis solutions utilize a wide
range of industry-standard interfaces and are distinguished by their
performance, accuracy, reliability , and adaptability to the industry's
constant evolution. (Nasdaq: MCIP), France Telecom
Research and Development, the University of New Hampshire-InterOperability
Laboratory (UNH-IOL) and Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU).francetelecom. Taking place across the U.

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In this way, testing resource expenditures are minimized
while testing productivity is maximized.)
MCI created the conformance test plans and executed the associated tests
which reflected key IPv6 attributes of interest to the Internet community.

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Ixia Streamlines Network Testing with Significant Enhancements to its Primary Automated Testing Application

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CALABASAS, Calif.
IxScriptMate 5.
The applications include the ePresentation suite of multimedia communications
software, developed by France Telecom R+D. With one of the most expansive global
IP backbones and wholly-owned data networks , MCI develops the converged
communications products and services that are the foundation for commerce and
communications in today's market.

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The tests, which represent the groundwork for future commercial IPv6
communications services, linked the North American IPv6 Task Force's Moonv6
network to MCI's global IP backbone via MCI's MAE(R) Extended Services
infrastructure, from San Jose, Calif .
"To my knowledge, this is the first wide-area commercial multimedia
testing on IPv6 with true multicast routing at its core," said Timothy
Winters, lead UNH-IOL research and test engineer on the project. and Lucent Technologies in Malvern, PA.
These attributes included IPv4-to-IPv6 transition methods, such as Generic
Routing Encapsulation overlay and IPv6 islands over a MultiProtocol Label
Switching (MPLS) core.S.

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About Ixia

Ixia is a leading, global provider of high performance IP network
testing solutions.ixiacom. (Nasdaq: MCIP) is a leading global communications provider,
delivering innovative, cost-effective, advanced communications connectivity to
businesses , governments and consumers. France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) is listed on the Paris
and New York stock exchanges.

About the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory
Established in 1988, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability
Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is a non-profit organization housed in 32,000 + square
feet of laboratory space offering comprehensive interoperability and
conformance -based testing in 19 data communication technologies.

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Its highly scalable solutions generate, capture ,
characterize, and emulate network and application traffic,
establishing definitive performance and conformance metrics of network
devices or systems under test.
"This industry collaboration between global carriers and equipment and
application vendors is a significant milestone toward the global offering of
IPv6 services," said MCI Enterprise Network Engineering Director Tom Bechly.

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France Telecom
R+D provided unicast and multicast applications that ran across the network.
In January , MCI and UNH-IOL announced that MCI had connected the Moonv6
network to the commercial Internet backbone allowing direct connections to the
test bed. The
UNH-IOL administers testing on Moonv6 for service providers and network
equipment companies both privately and in large-scale interoperability test
events. at multiple locations, the
Moonv6 network is the largest permanently deployed multi-vendor IPv6 test
network in the world.

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ixiacom. Unless otherwise indicated, other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For more information, go to:
http://www.

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