IT Brand Pulse is an IXIA lab partner which provides access to the industry's leading hardware and software for testing Cloud IT. The equipment can be deployed at IT Brand Pulse, on-site, or at the IXIA iSimCity Lab in Santa Clara, California.

The IXIA platform features:

• Complete data center cloud simulation to validate switch performance and ultra-low latency
• Internet and server-to-server traffic to fully load a system with a realistic mixture of north-south and east-west data center traffic
• Top-of-rack switch solutions to stress top of rack data center design architectures
• Versatile virtual traffic generators to measure the performance of heavy data movement between virtual machines (VMs)
• Protocol emulation for testing FCoE, Fibre Channel, data center bridging (DCB), layer-2 multipath (L2MP) networks, and security
• Fully integrated energy consumption measurements correlated with network load