BT to Offer Ixia Solutions to Boost Security Portfolio in Fight Against Cybercrime
July 27 2017 - 10:15AM
Business Wire
Reseller to address growing demand for network
visibility and test solutions among enterprise customers
Ixia, a leading provider of network testing, visibility, and
security solutions, today announced a new global reseller agreement
with BT, one of the world’s leading providers of communications
services and solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, BT will
be able to offer Ixia’s comprehensive product portfolio to its
existing customers in 180 countries worldwide.
BT provides managed services to 6,500 customers worldwide,
including some of the leading global multinational companies. With
a market-leading portfolio and a team of more than 2,500 highly
skilled security specialists, consultants, partners, and vendors,
BT delivers flexible end-to-end security capabilities to private-
and public-sector organizations worldwide.
“Our customers rely on our security solutions to protect them
against threats in the rapidly changing world. From the cloud to
on-premises and all the way to end points, we are offering
solutions that operate at the highest levels of quality,
reliability, and effectiveness,” said Rob Daniels, General Manager,
Portfolio Strategy and Cyber Security Portfolio at BT Security.
“Ixia’s advanced test, visibility, and security will be welcomed by
our customers looking for additional levels of protection.”
BT customers will benefit from Ixia’s comprehensive product
portfolio including:
- Ixia’s security and test portfolio
includes BreakingPoint®, which simulates real-world legitimate
traffic, distributed denial of service (DDoS), exploits, malware,
and fuzzing to validate an organization’s security
infrastructure.
- Ixia’s network visibility portfolio,
which includes network packet brokers such as Vision ONE™ to help
ensure every security and monitoring tool sees exactly the data it
needs, as well as real-time application and threat intelligence,
network TAPs, and bypass switches that help maximize resiliency and
minimize downtime during deployment.
“Ixia recognizes that to win the cyber-war we must arm
organizations with the tools that not only defend against attack,
but proactively protect their networks and applications,” stated
Scott Westlake, Vice President of Business Development for Ixia.
“BT Security professionals are experts in what they do, and
understand that an optimal security posture requires the best
products, training, and architectures.”
About Ixia
Ixia, recently acquired by Keysight Technologies, provides
testing, visibility, and security solutions, strengthening networks
and cloud environments for enterprises, service providers, and
network equipment manufacturers. Ixia offers companies trusted
environments in which to develop, deploy, and operate. Customers
worldwide rely on Ixia to verify their designs, optimize their
performance, and ensure protection of their networks and cloud
environments to make their applications stronger. Learn more at
www.ixiacom.com.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies is a leading technology company that helps
its engineering, enterprise and service provider customers optimize
networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a
lower cost. Keysight's solutions go where the electronic signal
goes, from design simulation, to prototype validation, to
manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud
environments. Customers span the worldwide communications
ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor
and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of
$2.9B in fiscal year 2016. In April 2017, Keysight acquired Ixia, a
leader in network test, visibility, and security. More information
is available at www.keysight.com.
Ixia, the Ixia logo, BreakingPoint, and Vision ONE are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Ixia in the United States
and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks used herein are the
property of their respective owners.
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IxiaDenise Idone, Director of Corporate
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659-7049Email: didone@ixiacom.com