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
