[so] Ixia offers grants to select students in the 5th year for their graduation thesis

[Octavian Purdila]

Ixia (Nasdaq: XXIA) is a profitable, growing California-based developer of network performance analysis hardware and software for next generation converged networks. Ixia’s highly scalable solutions generate, capture, characterize and emulate network and application traffic, establishing definitive performance and conformance metrics of the network device or system under test.

Ixia encourages and sponsors research in the following fields:
• TCP/IP networking – stack optimization, protocol implementation
• Operating systems – kernel optimization, scalability improvements

This year we offer grants and technical support to select students in the 5th year for their graduation thesis. If you are interested, please submit your CV to: Octavian Purdila, opurdila at ixiacom.com, no later than Nov 22, 2006. You will be notified by email on the status of you application. 

Requirements:
•  Students in the 5th year preparing the graduation thesis
•  Networking knowledge – TCP/IP
•  Linux programming – kernel, user-space
•  Programming knowledge in C/C++


Good luck!