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Xena Networks

Xena offers ethernet traffic generation and analysis solutions providing customers with performance, functional, Quality of Service and conformance testing. By integrating Quali Cloudshell with Xena’s Automation Framework, users are able to scale testbeds with connectivity and management capabilities such as device structure discovery and power management for Valkyrie and Vantage chassis and controller. With Quali CloudShell Blueprints, users are able to sequence operational activations on-demand with a single click, making testing easier.

Quali and Xena work together in a wide variety of ethernet testing solutions:

  • Valkyrie: Stateless Ethernet traffic generation and analysis up to 800Gbps
  • Vulcan: Stateful Ethernet Traffic Generation and Analysis
  • Vantage: Ethernet Production Line Tester
  • Chimera: Network Impairment Emulator
  • Safire: Enterprise Firewall Performance Tester

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Xena offers ethernet traffic generation and analysis solutions providing customers with performance, functional, Quality of Service and conformance testing. Combining Quali Cloudshell with Xena Increases the pace of innovation with self-service dynamic environments.

Xena’s Valkyrie Platform is a full-featured Layer 2-3 stateless Ethernet traffic generation and analysis solution. Valkyrie helps customers configure and generate Ethernet traffic up at all speeds up to 800GE. Organizations are able to analyze how network devices and services perform test and response commands making it perfect for network lab-based and data-plane test scenarios.

Quali Cloudshell offers to Community available Shells to automate each phase of Xena’s continuous testing solutions by creating connectivity, configuration, provisioning and development sandboxes for users manage each test scenario and power from a single blueprint.

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Our Xena Chassis 2G Shell provides users with connectivity and management capabilities such as device structure discovery and power management for the Xena chassis. Quali’s Xena Controller 2G Shell brings automation actions to the test cycle providing automation commands to run on the chassis, such as Load Configuration, Start/Stop Traffic, Get Statistics.

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Quali helps organizations drive business critical cost controls to the delivery of complex infrastructure with an end-to-end infrastructure automation platform that accelerates your time to market and boosts productivity.

At scale, Quali provides Frictionless Governance with out of the box RBAC (Role Based Action controls) to ensure Compliance, Security, Cost Control guard rails are in place to allow testing teams to efficiently execute ethernet tests on-demand, stress free.

Xena developer focused UI offers test modules for all the Ethernet speeds up to 800GE.

With CloudShell, network operators can automate dev and test labs in just one click. Quali’s on-demand sandboxes provide simple, secure, self-service automation and orchestration to provision infrastructure environments in minutes, not months, for on-prem, remote, and cloud resources.

Combining the power of Xena’s ethernet testing solutions with Quali Cloudshell empowers Network Operators to automate network slices that deliver guaranteed services to endpoints and applications that are continuously evolving. As organizations adopt a zero-trust approach to cybersecurity and privacy policies, users need a way to safely and efficiently modernization and transform business operations. Integrating Xena’s Ethernet testing and analysis platforms with Quali Cloudshell’s blueprint framework helps customers create true self-service with RBAC governance to automate all component of test environments allowing operators to focus on network functionality, security, and performance.

We have standard/product level Traffic Generator shells to integrate CloudShell with Xena:

The Xena Chassis 2G Shell provides you with connectivity and management capabilities such as device structure discovery and power management for the Xena chassis:

Chassis shell

The Xena Controller 2G Shell provides automation commands to run on the chassis, such as Load Configuration, Start/Stop Traffic, Get Statistics:

Controller shell