Ixia, is a provider of test systems for Internet protocol (IP)-based infrastructure and services that allow its customers to test and measure the performance, functionality, service quality and conformance of IP equipment and networks, and the applications that run over them. The Company’s solutions generate, capture, characterize and analyze high-volumes of realistic network and application traffic, identifying problems, assessing performance, ensuring functionality and interoperability, and verifying conformance to industry specifications. Ixia offers hardware platforms with interchangeable traffic generation interfaces, utilizing a common set of applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow its customers to create integrated, automated test environments. In November 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of the Agilent Technologies, Inc., N2X Data Networks Product Line.