BreakingPoint Elite

Accelerate Product Development and Reduce Costs

Network equipment testing industry’s fastest, most accurate, responsive and easy-to-use application, performance and security testing product BPS Elite Picture

BreakingPoint Elite powers accelerated product development with comprehensive Layer 2-7 testing for network equipment and application servers in a high-performance and easy-to-use product. Unlike legacy testing tools that are designed for HTTP-only test environments and struggle to generate realistic Layer 4-7 traffic, BreakingPoint provides authentic application traffic blended with live security attacks at speeds of 20 Gigabits per second and faster.

BreakingPoint Elite provides unprecedented realism, session performance, throughput and ease-of-use features including:

15 million concurrent TCP sessions and 1.5 million TCP sessions per second
20 Gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic in a 4 rack unit chassis
80 Gigabits per second Layer 2-3 traffic in a 4 rack unit chassis
Scales easily with multiple BreakingPoint Elite's to generate 200 Gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic and 800 Gigabits of Layer 2-3 traffic while retaining a single interface, test configuration and reporting
Ability to mix 1 GigE and 10 GigE interfaces, and scale to support large testing environments
An intuitive management interface, multi-user capabilities, integrated Layer 2-7 reporting and extensive automation
More than 70 application protocols that can be blended with more than 3,700 security attacks, an API for integrating proprietary application traffic and complete Microsoft^® Tuesday coverage

Native Application Protocols

Validate the performance and reliability of network equipment and application servers with the most realistic high-performance Layer 4-7 testing possible. Unlike legacy testing tools, BreakingPoint Elite provides blended traffic from the widest range of native application protocols and live security attacks with the most realistic application protocols out of the box and an API to accelerate proprietary applications.

More than 70 application protocols are available including HTTP, SMTP, AOL^® IM, FIX, IBM DB2, VMware^® VMotion^TM, Microsoft^® CIFS/SMB, MAPI, Oracle, Encrypted BitTorrent™, eDonkey, RADIUS, SIP, Windows Live Messenger, World of Warcraft^®, Yahoo!^® Messenger, and many others.
Includes IPv6 and SSL support with the ability to generate 80 Gigabits of IPv6 traffic from a single device.
New application protocols are released each week and an API is available for accelerating proprietary protocols.
Generate blended application traffic at 20 Gigabits per second without performance degradation.

Comprehensive Security Coverage

Create and modify difficult to detect network security attacks to expose vulnerabilities by combining live security exploits. Full evasion capabilities are built in, including stream segmentation, packet fragmentation, URL obfuscation, FTP telnet opcode and space insertion, RPC fragmentation, protocol fuzzing and others. All of these attacks can be applied to exploits and blended with application traffic.

More than 3,700 fully evaded security attacks are available, including contemporary exploits, Microsoft vulnerabilities and Zero-day exploits.
New applications and strikes are released weekly.
The most comprehensive Microsoft Tuesday coverage.
Generates SYN Flood attacks with up to 1,000,000 false and valid connections per second.
Supports application layer fuzzing for Zero-day detection.

Application Simulation

Reduce time consuming test configuration with BreakingPoint Application Profiles that combine realistic application protocols to simulate different types of network traffic for Enterprises, SOHO, Small and Medium Business, Service Providers, Higher Education and others. Within Application Profiles you can also create complex real-world transactions with BreakingPoint SuperFlows™ that define the mix of protocols within the application to generate realistic simulated network and applications testing environments.

Share context between multiple protocols and define the number of simultaneous sessions, session ramp-up rates and duration of sessions.
Upload custom content to transmit live virus, spam or legitimate content as part of the test traffic.
Alter the parameters after tests have been created and those changes are instantly reflected across all tests.

Packet Generation

With BreakingPoint Elite’s Layer 2-3 packet generation capabilities, you can determine the maximum raw sustained bits per second or frames per second performance of a device under test.

Generates 80 Gigabits per second and faster Layer 2-3 traffic.
Scales easily with multiple chassis to generate 800 Gigabits of Layer 2-3 traffic per second using one test configuration, a single management interface and integrated reporting.

Server Load Testing

Improve the efficiency and accuracy of performance, security and compliance testing for Application Servers, Load Balancers and other content-aware equipment while reducing the costs. Instead of requiring racks of servers to generate application traffic, BreakingPoint Elite emulates millions of sessions and speeds of 20 Gigabits per second in a single chassis.

Validate the integrity of transactions under real world conditions and peak performance.
Specify port numbers or a range of port numbers for load testing clusters and cloud services.

Management Interface

Create and modify complex tests without the need for time-consuming scripting using BreakingPoint Elite’s intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Network Neighborhood configurations such as IP addresses and routing information, etc. are completely abstracted from the main test structure to expedite changing tests between switched, routed, NAT or VLAN environments. Changing IP address ranges can also be completed in seconds and are immediately reflected across all tests.

Fully cross-platform Adobe^® Flash-based GUI.
Setup and configure complex tests without the need for client software and Tcl scripts.
Execute the same test across switched, routed or NAT topologies in seconds.

Test Automation and Tcl Scripting

Reduce configuration to a matter of minutes with extensive test automation. Select from a library of pre-configured tests that are stored in a central repository, or customize your own. Tests can be run from any host on the network without having to install client software.

Use BreakingPoint’s pre-configured tests, import a third-party test plan or customize your own.
Incorporate individual tests into test series for full revision regression testing.
Control the device under test with built-in serial and Ethernet ports.
Point and click automation via Telnet, SSH, SNMP and Serial connections.

Recreate and Capture History

Save time and see the effects of real traffic by importing live traffic packet captures and converting it automatically for stateful replay. BreakingPoint Elite replays stateful traffic using our TCP stack, including three-way handshakes and any necessary retransmissions.

Seamlessly integrate malicious activity into the captured traffic replay.
Accelerate the debugging of devices under test with up to 2 Gigabytes of capture history per interface allowing you to see traffic sent and results received.

Multi-user Testing and Administration

Multiple users can access BreakingPoint Elite at any given time to maximize test equipment utilization across staff. An innovative port reservation system allows users to assign port ownership to alleviate resource contention.

Scalable Testing

Scale to enormous performance levels by linking multiple BreakingPoint chassis using a single interface, one test configuration and integrated reporting.

Generate 150 million concurrent TCP sessions and 15 million TCP sessions per second.
Generate 200 Gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic and 800 Gigabits per second of Layer 2-3 traffic using multiple systems.

Reporting

BreakingPoint produces detailed reports for each test that are rich in graphical and textual content. With integrated reporting you can link multiple products together and produce a single report of findings. Charts can be exported for inclusion in other documents in a variety of different formats.

Automatically produce reports that include a table of contents, executive summary, as well as charts and graphical presentation of detailed results data.
Export presentation ready information to PDF, RTF, XLS, CSV and HTML formats.
Get real-time statistics for monitoring test progress.

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