High Performance Network Traffic Generation to Simulate Realistic Network Conditions

The Shifting Networking Landscape Demands the Most Advanced Network Traffic Generator

With traffic from more than 30 applications and increasingly sophisticated security threats, today’s networks must perform reliably under extreme and rapidly changing conditions. That’s why it’s critical to test with realistic blended application traffic under maximum load. With revenue, reputation and information security on the line, there is no faking it with synthetic network traffic generators.

To ensure resiliency, it is vital to take a comprehensive approach to testing using blended application protocols and all known security vulnerabilities at line rate speeds under maximum load conditions. Not only is it critical to test for security coverage under maximum load conditions, but organizations must test for performance of equipment while under attack.

Ensure the Performance, Security and Resiliency of Information and Communication Infrastructure

BreakingPoint Elite provides comprehensive Layer 2-7 traffic generation for network devices, servers and networks in a high-performance, compact, flexible and easy-to-use product. BreakingPoint Elite is the only testing product that provides authentic application traffic generation combined with live security attacks at speeds of up to 40 Gigabits per second and faster. This combination of realism and high performance provides a dramatic reduction in time-to-test and accelerates development and deployment of next-generation network devices and servers.

Scalable Network Simulation – Scale easily to simulate global networks and apply realistic load to test network equipment, application servers, data centers and cloud services. Generate blended application traffic with live security attacks, create traffic profiles to simulate network conditions and incorporate traffic from your network.

• 80+ application protocols are available including AOL IM®, eDonkey™, Encrypted BitTorrent™, FIX/FIXT, HTTP, HTTPs, IBM DB2®, MAPI, Microsoft® CIFS/SMB, Oracle®, PP Live, QQ IM, RADIUS, SIP, SMTP, VMware® VMotion™ Windows Live Messenger, World of Warcraft®, Yahoo!® Messenger and many more.
• No performance degradation with blended protocols
• Application profiles simulate actual traffic patterns
• Ability to accelerate custom applications and security attacks
• Dual stack IPv4/IPv6 testing
• Stateful recreate of captured traffic including industry leading 8 Gigabytes of traffic capture per blade
• Weekly protocol/security update

Unprecedented session performance and throughput in a 3-slot chassis

• 15 Million concurrent TCP sessions
• 1.5 Million TCP sessions per second
• 40 Gigabits per second of blended Layer 4-7 traffic
• 80 Gigabits per second of Layer 2-3 traffic

Comprehensive Attack Coverage

• Leverage unprecedented security coverage including more than 4,200 live security attacks and complete same-day Microsoft Tuesday coverage.
• Complex Attack Scenarios - Full evasion capabilities are built into BreakingPoint Elite including, stream segmentation, packet fragmentation, URL obfuscation, FTP telnet opcode and space insertion, RPC fragmentation, and others.
• Write your own Security Strikes - BreakingPoint Custom Strike Toolkit provides the ability to write your own security strikes to run on BreakingPoint's hardware in a matter of minutes.
• Botnet Command & Control and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Simulation - BreakingPoint Elite can ensure network devices can detect Botnets and mitigate DDoS attacks, along with conducting infection vector testing using live security strikes.
• Advanced Protocol Fuzzing - Use BreakingPoint Elite to identify performance issues or unknown vulnerabilities quickly by testing with malformed data packets.
• Accurate Data Leak Protection
• Validate Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and filtering capabilities by embedding a specific piece of data within tens of millions of data streams.
• Precise Anomaly Detection
• Ensure monitoring and security systems can identify elusive attacks by inserting anomalous traffic patterns into tens of millions of data streams.
• IPv4/IPv6 Compliance Testing
• Conduct IPv4/IPv6 dual stack testing with the industry’s most current IPv6 stack

Creating Repeatable Randomized Tests for Direct Product Comparisons

BreakingPoint enables buyers to put vendor vulnerability filters and exploit signature variants to the test to see if they provide adequate protection against security threats. BreakingPoint Elite features Application Profiles that offer the ability to simulate complex traffic patterns and Super Flows with blended application protocols, sophisticated attack scenarios, and a range of usage patterns. It provides granular control over the application protocols generated allowing buyers to define individual flows for each application protocol.

To ensure a random but repeatable stream of traffic, BreakingPoint Application Profiles allows the selection of a random seed value that controls the product's pseudo random number generator (PRNG). This feature allows buyers to pick a number and generate the attacks or blended application traffic the same way every time. The product will then create repeatable standardized tests by generating random yet repeatable data to conduct direct comparisons of different security devices. It will generate all variants in the same way for each test executed. If a seed value is not set, the system will automatically randomize the traffic flow each time the test is executed.

With BreakingPoint Elite, you can improve the efficiency and accuracy of performance, security, and compliance testing 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.

Debugging Network Devices Quickly and Accurately

BreakingPoint Elite reduces the time it takes to debug network equipment and application servers with the largest capture history, 8 Gigabytes per blade, and advanced filtering of packet captures in order to gather only the data needed. Using BreakingPoint Elite, engineers quickly import any live traffic packet captures they wish for automatic stateful replay, pinpointing exactly the traffic they want to recreate, in order to more quickly resolve any performance or security issues.

• Post-processing ability to compress the capture export, even allowing the user to specify start and end frames.
• Berkley Packet Filter (BPF) capability to isolate traffic by IP address, port, protocol and more; the same format used for libpcap.
• Ingress pre-processing filtering parameters based on VLAN ID, Source IP, Destination IP, Source Port and Destination Port.
• BreakingPoint Elite recreate allows users to incorporate data originating from a real network into tests, replaying stateful traffic using the TCP stack, including three-way handshakes and any necessary retransmissions. New features to BreakingPoint Elite recreate include:
• Importing IPv6 capture files
• Importing gzipped capture files
• Raw playback of traffic in order to test for common issues with ARP, RARP, TCP/UDP headers, TCP SYN floods, DDoS, invalid packets and more.

Network Processor Architecture is Key to BreakingPoint Elite Traffic Generation Performance, Realism and Currency

With the dynamic mix and high volume of application traffic on networks today, keeping high-performance testing conditions current is an ongoing challenge. Unlike other testing products, BreakingPoint Elite is architected for ultimate realism, responsiveness, and performance. This innovative design enables weekly protocol updates, monthly software enhancements and unprecedented performance. Three distinct but integrated layers deliver authentic blended application traffic with live security strikes at unprecedented speeds and immense session performance.

BreakingPoint Management Layer: An intuitive management interface, application profile repository, automated reporting and application API that enables instant addition of new application protocols and security strikes.

BreakingPoint Control Layer: An intelligent control layer that provides sophisticated test automation, eliminating the need to develop new scripts for every test.

BreakingPoint High-Performance Hardware Layer: Breakthrough high-performance hardware layer features a blend of FPGAs, network processors, and embedded processors to produce millions of real application data streams and speeds of up to 40 Gigabits per second.

Learn more about high-performance network traffic generation, contact a BreakingPoint expert today.