BreakingPoint Invents New Network Processing Architecture to Deliver 40 Gbps of Blended Application Traffic from Single Testing Device

BreakingPoint Elite Users Upgrade Firmware to Realize 100% Increase in Bandwidth Performance on 3-slot Chassis without Additional Cost or Hardware Upgrade

 

Austin, TX – February 3, 2009 – Today, BreakingPoint users realized a 2X boost in testing performance with a simple firmware upgrade, enabling them to now generate blended Layer 4-7 application traffic at up to 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps). BreakingPoint’s innovative network processor technology powers this unprecedented throughput while making the BreakingPoint Elite field-upgradeable and future-proof.

News Highlights

  • BreakingPoint Elite packs an enormous punch in a 3-slot chassis with the testing industry’s highest 10 GigE port density, lowest cost per TCP session, lowest cost per Gigabit of blended Layer 4-7 traffic, and lowest power consumption.
  • BreakingPoint Elite’s innovative architecture includes three distinct but integrated layers including a hardware layer featuring a blend of FPGAs, network processors and embedded processors. BreakingPoint’s innovative network processor technology empowers users with easily upgradeable testing equipment including weekly application protocols and security strikes and monthly software enhancements.
  • BreakingPoint’s all-in-one service and support program allows every BreakingPoint Elite user immediate access to these weekly application protocols and security strikes, same-day complete Microsoft® Tuesday coverage and monthly software enhancements.
  • Additional BreakingPoint Elite enhancements released today include automated profiles for RFC 2544 benchmark network tests. The addition of RFC 2544 to the BreakingPoint application profiles allows users to easily combine realistic application protocols to emulate different types of network traffic for these benchmark tests.

Dennis Cox, BreakingPoint CTO: “Time to retire legacy testing tools”

“BreakingPoint Elite has completely changed the game; today we doubled our performance ability with a firmware upgrade, allowing you to test servers or any network device with the highest performance and realism available,” said BreakingPoint CTO Dennis Cox. “Our patent-pending approach to network traffic generation puts us in a performance class of our own with the highest 10 GigE port density, the lowest cost per TCP session and the lowest cost per gigabit in the industry. Furthermore, BreakingPoint Elite is the most realistic testing product available, supporting more than 70 stateful application protocols, versus the dozen or so from our competitors, and providing a toolkit for users to build their own application protocols for testing. Traditional test vendors, locked into their archaic architectures, simply cannot keep up with the new realities of network equipment testing, it’s time to retire those legacy testing tools.”

About BreakingPoint

BreakingPoint accelerates the development and testing of high-performance content-aware network equipment with fast, accurate, responsive, and easy-to-use application, performance and security testing tools. BreakingPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices and customers in Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, United States and the United Kingdom. For more information visit www.breakingpoint.com.

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