Filling the Application Gap
Application traffic continues to grow at an astonishing pace, which certainly means many things to many people, but for Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers it means that network devices must perform with all of this traffic AND do it at high-speeds of 10 gigabit per second and faster. Today we announced a toolkit to allow for native generation of stateful proprietary application traffic (news release). I thought I would also share a couple of graphics we've been working on to show the "application gap" that exists and what we are trying to do about it:
Legacy test vendors have been unable to meet the application traffic needs of NEMs and service providers due to their locked-down architecture. However it is critical to be able to test network equipment with stateful application traffic including business, recreational, malicious, and proprietary application traffic.
As slide 2 shows, BreakingPoint is closing the "application gap" with the release of this toolkit which allows, for the first time, native generation of stateful proprietary application traffic. The equation becomes simple: business, recreational, malicious, and proprietary application traffic plus the ability to simulate this traffic at speeds of 10 Gigabits per second on a single interface and scale up to 160 Gigabits per second and you are talking "real-world performance testing".
