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BreakingPoint, the leader in massive-scale, real-world LTE/4G testing, today announced plans to conduct unprecedented LTE/4G performance and security testing during the LTE Asia 2011 conference. From booth No. 25, show attendees can witness a single BreakingPoint CTM create six million mobile users -- more than the entire population of Singapore -- as they download rich media content, Skype with friends, purchase music, post photos on Facebook or unknowingly share the latest malware.

Twelve-year-old systems integrator Net Direct Systems, for example, has joined a new channel program from network testing and cybersecurity firm BreakingPoint Systems.

“With converged network infrastructure and some cloud out there, and with the growth of virtualized and distributed environments, enterprise network testing eliminates the guesswork and allows us to proactively design, develop and bring up our customer’s solutions in a test environment,” says Jason Schroeder, senior solutions consultant at Net Direct.

The new latency measurement functionality is free to current FireStorm CTM users under maintenance contract. Says the company: "Using this all-in-one device, organisations can now test and validate every element of their low latency environment using a blend of real application, attack and low-level Layer 2/3 traffic without licensing and cobbling together a myriad of complex testing tools."

Financial institutions face several IT challenges in 2011, with much of the focus centering on the desire to have a hardened infrastructure that also continues to achieve lower and lower latency. In order to accomplish this mission, organizations are looking to three primary objectives:

Will your network and your equipment perform as expected under the heavy stresses of today’s network loads? That’s the question every vendor has to ask, and one they must be able to answer affirmatively, with confidence, before bringing new products or services into full production mode. This applies to enterprise and service provider environments, as well as equipment manufacturers.

Fortinet® (NASDAQ: FTNT) — a leading network security provider and a worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announced that its FortiGate®-3950B enterprise consolidated security appliance has achieved a BreakingPoint Resiliency Score™ of 95/100 — the highest published score on record.

What would you do if every single adult in the United States decided to ping your data center all at the same time? Seriously ... do you think it would it weather the storm or simply fold like a plastic grocery bag? Many companies will never need to find that out, but there are a growing number of companies that regularly deal with that kind of traffic and more, and for them the question becomes how to find out how resilient they really are before some unforeseen event does it for them. We suggest the FireStorm Cyber Tomography Machine (CTM) from BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. may be just what the doctor ordered.

BreakingPoint recently unveiled new capabilities which include the addition of 27,000 pieces of live malware to its extensive all-in-one product for IT resiliency testing. BreakingPoint's Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) team went on to add the new live malware to a library of thousands of other security attacks, including the very latest vulnerabilities such as DDoS attacks, evasions and more.