Aug 18, 2009
Emulate Chinese Peer-to-Peer Protocols - PPLive and QQLive to Test Network Equipment and Application Servers
by Pam O'NealThis morning BreakingPoint announced that we’ve added realistic emulation of the peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming video network PPLive and online television platform QQLive to a growing library of 80+ application protocols. Now BreakingPoint customers can accurately simulate the world’s most used instant messaging, peer-to-peer and video streaming applications when testing network equipment and application servers. Below are more details from the news release:
- PPLive, the world's largest all-video network, is a peer-to-peer streaming video network created in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. PPLive streams live television and film programs on top of hundreds of millions of video clips, films and plays.
- QQLive is an interactive P2P distribution platform for streaming media developed by Tencent, China's largest and most used Internet service portal. QQLive has more than 100 TV channels and can be viewed in a variety of ways including through the Web and desktop programs.
- In October 2008, BreakingPoint introduced emulation of China's QQ IM (Instant Messaging) application, the most used IM application in the world. Today’s addition of QQLive and PPLive provide BreakingPoint users with the most complete and realistic testing of the world's most used peer-to-peer, instant messaging and video streaming applications.
- Overall BreakingPoint provides support for the world’s most popular IM, P2P and video streaming applications, including AIM®, QQIM, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, Encrypted BitTorrent™, eDonkey, Gnutella, PPLive and QQLive.
