Next Generation Networks Demand a Next Generation Testing Platform

Network traffic volume and complexity continues to grow exponentially, driving the demand for a new generation of content-aware network equipment devices. In the race to deliver differentiated products to market, network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) need a radically new class of testing platform to help them demonstrate superior product performance, accelerate R&D, and reduce costs.

Proper testing of content-aware network equipment demands a realistic blend of many different applications and line-speed performance. Today’s testing system must provide these essential components—truly authentic converged business, recreational and malicious application traffic at 10 Gigabits per second and faster speeds. And, they must provide custom applications to test in as little as a day.

Who We Are

BreakingPoint is the content-aware testing systems company that is reinventing network and application testing. The company was founded in 2005 by engineers experienced in developing and testing high speed networking devices at NetWorth, Netspeed, Cisco, TippingPoint and 3Com.

What We Do

The idea for BreakingPoint came to us in our past lives as network equipment developers. We tested using existing test gear and realized we could never be sure how our products would perform in the real world—what was the “breaking point?” The products we designed passed the tests offered by legacy testing tools, but once deployed in an enterprise environment, they failed. And, that slowed down product adoption, revenue, and profitability. What we needed was a testing platform that simulated a realistic enterprise network environment to help us accelerate the development of high performance, reliable products.

So, we decided to change the testing industry. We formed BreakingPoint to build the most realistic and powerful testing platform available. Today, BreakingPoint delivers the only test platform powerful enough to deliver truly authentic converged business and recreational application traffic combined with live security strikes, resulting in truly accurate testing of content-aware devices. For the first time, network equipment manufacturers have access to all the components for today’s complex and dynamic test environment in a single, easy to use device. Unlike legacy test tools that only blast bits or packets, we provide the most authentic, composite application traffic at speeds up to 10 Gigabits per second and faster driven by our patented Test Expression Engine™. Even as new application test packages are needed, BreakingPoint is the only company agile enough to deliver express applications to keep your product release on-time and on-target.

Why We Do It

Only by supporting traffic generation with realistic application characteristics and multi-gigabit speeds with millions of connection set ups per minute of real world traffic can accurate testing be performed. Our solutions determine the breaking point of network products enabling end customers to procure the best of breed, well-tested networking equipment.

Legacy testing gear simply cannot compete with BreakingPoint:

• BreakingPoint leads the industry in content-aware network equipment testing with 4 times the applications, 700 times the TCP sessions and 100 times the performance of other vendors.
• BreakingPoint is the only company with support for the most applications, the ability to control every facet of an application protocol and custom applications in as little as a day.
• BreakingPoint’s high performance hardware combined with a customer- driven application development portal enables anyone to test custom applications at line speed.
• BreakingPoint is the only company that provides the essential components for testing content-aware devices—authentic converged business, recreational, and malicious application traffic at 10 Gigabits per second and faster.