QUEBEC CITY, Sept. 9 -- EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. (NASDAQ:EXFO)(NASDAQ:TSX:)(NASDAQ:EXF) announced today the release of new software features on the InterWatch R14 platform, the industry''s highest performance and most scalable Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)/Next-Generation (NGN) test platform.
Release 7.2 on the InterWatch R14 platform simulates up to 256,000 unique Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) subscriber addresses per chassis to support the migration of voice and video applications to the IPv6 addressing scheme. In addition to IPv6, this new software release expands EXFO''s wide list of supported codecs to include the Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC) family used in Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) networks, as well as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Internet Key Exchange version 1 protocol (IKEv1) for security testing.
EVRC support includes EVRC, EVRC0, EVRC1, EVRCB, EVRCB0 and EVRCB1 in full and fractional modes and with or without silence suppression. The addition of IKEv1 key exchange protocol expands EXFO''s security and authentication capability to include IPsec tunnel mode.
Finally, Release 7.2 adds DHCP support to EXFO''s unique Border Gateway Function (BGF) test application, thereby improving its test capability for BGF devices with integrated subscriber management.