BreakingPoint Elite
Ensure Network Resiliency, Accelerate Product Development and Reduce Time-to-Test
Network equipment testing industry’s fastest, most accurate, responsive and easy-to-use application, performance and security testing product
BreakingPoint Elite provides network testing tools to help accelerate the development and deployment of high-performance networks and discover and defend against network vulnerabilities. BreakingPoint Elite simulates a true global network with blended stateful application traffic mixed with live security attacks at line-rate speeds and high session counts, delivered from the same address space
BreakingPoint Elite provides the necessary components for resiliency testing; unprecedented realism, session performance, throughput and ease-of-use including:
- 15 million concurrent TCP sessions and 1.5 million TCP sessions per second
- 40 Gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic in a 3-slot chassis
- 80 Gigabits per second Layer 2-3 traffic in a 3-slot chassis
- Scales easily with multiple BreakingPoint Elite's to provide an unlimited amount of Layer 2-7 traffic while retaining a single interface, test configuration and reporting
- Ability to mix 1GigE and 10GigE 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 75 application protocols that can be blended with more than 4,200 security attacks, an API for integrating proprietary application traffic and complete same-day Microsoft® Tuesday coverage
BreakingPoint Elite Network Resiliency Testing Advantages
BreakingPoint Elite is engineered for ultimate realism, responsiveness, and performance. With an innovative network processor-driven design, a BreakingPoint chassis delivers authentic blended Layer 4-7 application traffic and live security strikes at 40 Gigabits per second (Gbps) with 15 million simultaneous TCP sessions. Advantages include:
- Realistic Blended Application Traffic – BreakingPoint delivers a realistic blend of good, bad and proprietary application traffic such as voice, video, data and virus attacks at up to 40 Gbps in a 3-slot chassis.
- Scalable Network Simulation – Scale easily to simulate global networks, such as Cyber Range, and apply load to test data centers and cloud services.
- Create Protocols and Security Strikes –Toolkits to create proprietary application protocols and custom security attacks.
- Comprehensive Attack Coverage – Leverage unprecedented security coverage including more than 4,200 live security attacks and full Microsoft Tuesday coverage.
- Botnet Command & Control and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Simulation – Ensure network devices can detect Botnets and mitigate DDoS attacks.
- Complex Attack Scenarios – Simulate a wide range of sophisticated attacks with more than 80 evasion techniques.
- Advanced Protocol Fuzzing – Identify performance issues or unknown vulnerabilities quickly by testing with malicious or malformed data packets.
- Thorough Firewall and IPS Validation – Accelerate modernization of initiatives and evaluate performance and security claims of vendors by testing for vulnerabilities under peak load conditions.
- Accurate Data Leak Protection and Precise Anomaly Detection – Validate Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and filtering capabilities while ensuring monitoring and security systems can identify elusive attacks.
- Standards Conformance – Conduct IPv4/IPv6 dual stack testing with the industry’s most current IPv6 stack and validate conformance to specifications using current standards such as Jumbo Frames.
Validate the performance and reliability of network equipment and application servers with the most realistic high-performance Layer 2-7 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.
- 75+ application protocols are available, including HTTP, SMTP, AOL® IM, FIX, IBM DB2, VMware® VMotion™, Microsoft® CIFS/SMB, MAPI, Oracle, Encrypted BitTorrent™, eDonkey, RADIUS, SIP, Windows Live Messenger, World of Warcraft®, Yahoo!® Messenger and many others.
- New application protocols are released each week, and an API is available for accelerating user-defined proprietary protocols.
- Generates blended Layer 4-7 traffic at up to 20 Gigabits per second per blade without performance degradation.
- Generates 40 Gigabits per second and faster of Layer 2-3 traffic per blade.
- Designed to scale easily with multiple BreakingPoint Elites to provide an unlimited amount of Layer 2-7 traffic using a single interface.
Comprehensive Security Coverage
Create and modify difficult-to-detect network security attacks and combine live security exploits to expose vulnerabilities. Full evasion capabilities are built in, with stream segmentation, packet fragmentation, URL obfuscation, FTP telnet opcode and space insertion, RPC fragmentation, protocol fuzzing and others. All of the attacks, continuously updated by BreakingPoint’s application and security research team, can be applied to exploits and blended with application traffic.
- More than 4,200 fully evaded security attacks are available, including contemporary exploits, complete same-day Microsoft® coverage and Zero-day exploits.
- New applications and security strikes are released weekly.
- Generates SYN Flood attacks with up to 1 Million 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. With 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 application 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.
- Automated profiles for benchmark network tests such as RFC 2544.
Client Simulator
Improve the efficiency and accuracy of performance, security, and compliance testing for Application Servers, Load Balancers and other content-aware equipment such as Application Delivery Controllers, WAN Accelerators and Proxy devices, while reducing costs. Instead of using racks of servers to generate stateful application traffic and simulate thousands of users, BreakingPoint Elite emulates Millions of sessions at speeds of up to 40 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.
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 costs. Instead of using racks of servers to generate stateful application traffic and simulate thousands of users, BreakingPoint Elite emulates Millions of sessions at speeds of up to 40 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.
Network Neighborhoods
Network Neighborhood configurations such as IP addresses and routing information are completely abstracted from the main test structure to expedite changing tests between switched, routed, NAT, or VLAN environments. Network configuration changes can also be completed in seconds and are immediately reflected across all tests.
- Run the same test against different types of devices, regardless of whether the device is a switch, a router, or a NAT gateway.
- Allow direct comparisons between disparate devices.
- Support two levels of 802.1q tagging.
- Configure up to five interfaces including an external interface for targeting hosts not directly connected to the DUT and talk to an end host or a device terminating SSL.
Intuitive Management Interface
Create and modify complex tests without the need for time-consuming scripting using BreakingPoint Elite’s intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). Enable multiple users at any given time to maximize test equipment utilization across staff.
- Fully cross-platform Adobe® Flash-based GUI.
- Innovative port reservation system allows users to assign port ownership to alleviate contention.
- Set up and configure complex tests without the need for client software and Tcl scripts.
- One-click access to find and run recent tests.
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.
- 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.
- Designed to scale easily with multiple BreakingPoint Elites to provide an unlimited amount of Layer 2-7 traffic.
Device Under Test (DUT) Automation
BreakingPoint Device Under Test (DUT) automation enables users to connect directly to the DUT to eliminate manual reboots in the case of an error or gather statistics without the need for a separate switch. Additionally, BreakingPoint provides users with the ability to develop sophisticated test scripts or use third-party software to execute tests. This combination of automation allows new tests to be created by recombining and, if necessary, modifying the components of previous tests.
- Incorporate individual tests into test series for full revision regression testing.
- Point and click automation via Telnet, SSH, SNMP and Serial connections.
- An extra serial port and Ethernet port allow for direct plug-in of a network device.
- Built-in expect scripts for users to define the routines and commands necessary to query the DUT and maintain control throughout the testing process.
- Auto-create script functionality.
- Define the DUT configuration on a per-test basis or globally for others to use.
- Incorporate the output into the final test report.
Recreate and Capture History
Speed test debugging time and see the effects of traffic by importing live traffic packet captures and converting it automatically for stateful replay. BreakingPoint Elite replays stateful traffic using the TCP stack, including three-way handshakes and any necessary retransmissions. Additionally, BreakingPoint Elite allows you to see traffic sent and results received.
- Accelerate the debugging of devices under test with up to 2 Gigabytes of capture history per 10GigE interface and 1 Gigabyte per 1GigE interface.
- Seamlessly integrate malicious activity into the captured traffic replay.
Reporting and Analytics
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 and an executive summary, as well as charts and graphs of test results.
- Export information to PDF, RTF, XLS, CSV and HTML formats.
- Get real-time statistics for monitoring test progress.
BreakingPoint All-in-One Service and Support
BreakingPoint makes performance and security testing fast, realistic, and easy with a responsive and all-inclusive Service and Support program for every user. The BreakingPoint team of respected application and security researchers provides everything for thorough performance and security testing in one package that includes access to all application protocols, security strikes, product enhancements, and full service and support. Click here for more information.
