Fact Sheet
Global Headquarters: Austin, TX United States
URL: www.breakingpointsystems.com
Founded: 2005
Funding: Raised $28M since September, 2005
Investors: Genesis Inventions, Austin Ventures
Employees: 65 as of Q1 2008
Customers: Leading Network Equipment Manufacturers, Service Providers, Enterprise Labs, and Government Agencies
Executive Leadership:
Des Wilson, Chief Executive Officer
Dennis Cox, Chief Technical Officer
Craig Cantrell, Chief Operating Officer
Jim Cahill, President
Keith Brewer, Vice President of Hardware Development
Stephane Johnson, Vice President of International Sales
Pam O’Neal, Vice President of Marketing
Company Overview:
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.
The idea for BreakingPoint came to us in our past lives as network equipment developers, when we tested hardware before it was ready for primetime and realized we could never be sure of how our products would perform in the real world…what was their “breaking point”. We decided to build the best, most powerful testing systems ourselves. As testing moves up the stack from Layer 2 to Layer 7 we know testing, from R&D to QA, needs to be prepared for more dynamic network and application conditions.
Today, BreakingPoint delivers the only test platform powerful enough to deliver truly authentic composite business, recreational and malicious application traffic, resulting in truly accurate testing of DPI and 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, converged application traffic at speeds up to 10Gbps based on our patented network emulation hardware. Even as new application test packages are needed, BreakingPoint is the only company agile enough to deliver express or overnight applications to keep your product release on time and accurate.
BreakingPoint Product Portfolio:
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BreakingPoint BPS 10000: BreakingPoint’s flagship testing system capable of sending converged application traffic at speeds of 10+ Gigabits per second, 7.5 million simultaneous TCP/IP sessions and 750,000 TCP/IP sessions per second.
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BreakingPoint BPS 1000: BreakingPoint’s all-in-one testing device that fires Layer 2-7 and security traffic at multi-gigabit speeds including a composite of business, recreational and malicious application traffic.
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BreakingPoint AccuApp™: Library of application protocols that emulates the most authentic converged business, recreational and malicious application traffic.
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BreakingPoint AppExpress™: Express application delivery service included in maintenance agreement. Utilizes advanced surveillance techniques and methodologies to identify and capture emergent business, recreational, and malicious applications, rapidly creates an application test package that is immediately delivered to our customers – often overnight.
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BreakingPoint AppExpress™: Premium. Premium subscription service that enables customers to request custom application test packages with delivery in as little as a day.
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BreakingPoint Labs: The industry’s only on-line community for network equipment R&D and Test/QA engineers.
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BreakingPoint SuperFlows™: The ability to control every facet of an application protocol, including sharing context between multiple application protocols.
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BreakingPoint Test Expression Engine™: BreakingPoint’s unique hardware architecture that allows customers to drive application traffic at unprecedented speeds, and scale to massive bandwidth and sessions in 10-gigabit increments.