Realistic Application Load Testing

Test Network Device Performance and Effectiveness with a Realistic Blend of Application Protocols and Live Security Strikes

Testing content-aware network equipment requires a complete understanding of the types of application traffic your device will encounter in a production environment. It also requires comprehensive security testing to thwart new security attacks. It’s not enough to test that equipment with only a Layer 2-3 traffic generator. It requires thorough Layer 4-7 load testing with an application traffic generator that delivers a blend of realistic application traffic at increasingly faster speeds while emulating thousands of users.

In the past, the obstacle to thorough network device performance and security testing was the size and complexity of enterprise networks that support, on average, 30 different applications and face increasingly sophisticated security threats. The IT landscape has become only more dynamic, which makes it necessary to generate traffic with new application protocols and security measures frequently.

Bringing Realism, Simplicity and Performance to Layer 2-7 Testing

BreakingPoint products generate the realistic blended application and security traffic you need to sharpen your competitive edge, reduce time-to-test and accelerate product development. A single BreakingPoint Elite delivers 20 Gigabits per second per blade of blended application traffic and live security strikes and 15 million concurrent TCP sessions from a single testing device. BreakingPoint delivers the lowest cost per Gigabit of stateful Layer 4-7 traffic and lowest cost per TCP session in the industry.

Blending Realistic Layer 4-7 Application Protocols

Generate stateful blended application traffic for load testing at unprecedented speeds with a mix of application protocols from our library—with no performance degradation. We currently provide more than 75 application protocols that can be blended with more than 4,200 security attacks for load testing, as well as an API for integrating proprietary application traffic. All of this is included for one price with maintenance.

Keeping Application Load Testing Current

Keep your test conditions current with the BreakingPoint Labs application and security research team, which is dedicated to delivering the surveillance and updates you need to keep pace with rapid changes in enterprise environments. BreakingPoint Labs delivers application test packages and security strikes as quickly as overnight and provides complete same-day Microsoft Tuesday coverage.

Simplifying Realistic Application Load Testing

Reduce time-consuming test configuration by combining BreakingPoint’s realistic application protocols into an Application Profile to simulate different types of network traffic for Enterprises, SOHO, Small and Medium Business, Service Providers, Higher Education and others. BreakingPoint enables you to share context between application protocols and define simultaneous sessions, session ramp-up rates, and session duration; upload custom content to transmit live virus, spam, or legitimate content as part of the test traffic; and automatically create profiles for benchmark network tests such as RFC 2544.

Learn more about our unprecedented realism, session performance, throughput and ease-of-use features for application load testing. See how BreakingPoint products uniquely generate the type of stateful blended application traffic and live security attacks you need to effectively test your network device for performance and security.

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