Case Study: NoviFlow validates full 240 Gbps wire‑speed performance and scales QA with Keysight Ixia testing solutions

NoviFlow Enhances Quality Assurance for High Performance Ethernet Switches

NoviFlow, a Montréal-based maker of high-performance OpenFlow switches (NoviSwitch), needed to prove its gear met demanding data center performance expectations—240 Gbps true wire-speed, one million flow entries and tens of thousands of flowmods per second—and lacked a test platform capable of validating full system throughput and multi-user testing. To address this, NoviFlow turned to Keysight and its test solutions, deploying tools such as IxNetwork and the XGS12‑SD modular chassis to replicate real-world data plane and protocol conditions.

Keysight’s IxNetwork running on the XGS12‑SD enabled NoviFlow to emulate millions of routes and customizable traffic flows, perform layer 2–7 stress testing, and validate the NoviSwitch at full capacity. As a result, NoviFlow optimized quality assurance, proved its 240 Gbps performance claims, increased R&D efficiency through shared, scalable testing, and accelerated time to market—boosting customer confidence and industry credibility.

NoviFlow

Luc Mayrand

Vice President, R&D