Agilent Technologies Extends IP Protocol Testing Options With New VoIP, VPN Conformance Suites.Business Editors/High Tech Writers PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 2001 Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A), a leading provider of innovative technologies for communications and life sciences, today introduced two additional tools for automated testing of the protocols used to deliver services over IP networks. The two new conformance suites, including the industry's first conformance suite for the Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP), allow customers to speed development and interoperability of voice over IP (VoIP) and IP virtual private network (IP-VPN) equipment by ensuring that control-plane software implementations conform to key IETF See Internet Engineering Task Force. IETF - Internet Engineering Task Force (1) standards. Agilent's initial VoIP suite is focused on testing SIP, an application layer signaling protocol that provides call control for IP phone calls, multi-party sessions or multimedia distribution. In a recent survey by Network World magazine, almost 90 percent of the key VoIP vendors questioned said they either currently support SIP in their VoIP products or plan to do so in the next six months. The SIP application includes more than 200 automated test scenarios covering different aspects of the protocol and can be used for testing all components of a SIP system, including SIP telephones and proxy servers, from both the network and the user side. Agilent's IP-VPN Conformance Test Suite provides comprehensive testing of key protocols used to establish "on-demand" VPN connections across the Internet. Designed for use by both equipment manufacturers and service providers, the application offers fully automated stimulus-response testing of all aspects of the Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol See L2TP. (L2TP), including control connection establishment, session establishment and data transport. Both products use a clear "pass/fail" paradigm to report overall results, and provide engineers with analysis and debugging tools to identify failure, causes or conflicts with published standards. Available interfaces for QA Robot support testing at a wide variety of transmission rates, from 10/100 Ethernet to OC-48c/STM-16. Both new applications will be initially available on Agilent's QA Robot platform, and complement other Agilent tools for testing the full range of IP routing protocols (BGP-4(2), OSPF(3), IS-IS (Intermediate System to Intermediate System) An ISO protocol that provides dynamic routing between routers. IS-IS is an interior gateway protocol (IGP) and was the first comprehensive link state protocol. (4)), Multiprotocol Label Switching (networking) Multiprotocol Label Switching - (MPLS) A packet switching protocol developed by the IETF. Initially developed to improve switching speed, other benefits are now seen as being more important. (MPLS), evaluating IP impairments, and generating and analyzing TCP and UDP UDP (uridine diphosphate): see uracil. (User Datagram Protocol) A protocol within the TCP/IP protocol suite that is used in place of TCP when a reliable delivery is not required. traffic. Additional platform and product information can be found at www.agilent.com/comms/qarobot. U.S. Pricing and Availability Both the Agilent SIP Conformance Suite and the Agilent IP-VPN Conformance Test Suite are available now, each priced at $11,310. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. With 48,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent had net revenue of $10.8 billion in fiscal year 2000. Information about Agilent can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. 1 Internet Engineering Task Force (c/o Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Reston, VA, www.ietf.org) Founded in 1986, the IETF is a non-membership, open, voluntary standards organization dedicated to identifying problems and opportunities in IP data networks and proposing technical solutions to the 2 Border Gateway Protocol Border Gateway Protocol - (BGP) An Exterior Gateway Protocol defined in RFC 1267 and RFC 1268. Its design is based on experience gained with Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), as defined in STD 18, RFC 904 and EGP usage in the NSFNet backbone, as described in RFCs 1092 and 1093. 3 Open Shortest Path First 4 Intermediate system to intermediate system |
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