Yeah. We run all of our IXIA gear 24/7 in automated feature/regression testing. We are looking into high density layer 1 packet switches so we can automate physical topology changes as well. On May 25, 2016 3:14 AM, "Saku Ytti" <saku@ytti.fi> wrote: Ugh. In all cases below, where it says Agilent it should say IXIA.

Many times in QoS testing you'd have EF, AF, BE traffic, and you have expectation how many percentage in given situation should given class drop, doing this in Agilent is a chore.

Agilent probably has best in the breed network with emulation capabilities. And focus generally seems to be in protocol testing/development where network emulation is tremendously useful.

As the platforms are very expensive, not many SPs are using them, so they're not getting input from SPs what the boxes should be doing. This market is very poorly tapped, there is large demand in the market for proper testing equipment but it's just priced out of reach. I believe Spirent and Agilent should sell the hardware at-cost, then sell timed licenses, where maybe 1000h license would be today's full cost. Large segment of this market might not use box at all in some year and would generally only require modest hours from it. Bit harder to justify the cost with low use, compared to vendors who run them automated 24/7.

-- ++ytti