Spirent Avalanche

Spirent’s Avalanche™ appliance solution provides capacity, security and performance testing for

network infrastructures, Web application infrastructures and Triple Play services ensuring Quality

of Service (QoS) and Quality of Exp erience (QoE) for your customers.

In today’s digital world, it’s essential that the performance of content aware networks, security

systems and Web applications are carefully tested to ensure that business transactions and

communication are not impacted. The Spirent Avalanche 3100B is a line rate, 1 Gbps and multi-

10Gbps Layer 4-7 stateful traffic performance solution that is capable of high throughput security

testing of over 8 Gbps of bulk encrypted traffic. Avalanche 3100B users now have the ability to

test devices to their limits at line rate simulating daily traffic and understand the impact under

worse case scenarios.

In addition to 1 Gbps and 10Gbps of Layer 4-7 stateful traffic and 25 million connections

(Avalanche 3100B GT supports over 60,000,000 connections), testers are able to specify load

variables such as user sessions, new user sessions per second, transactions, transactions per

second, connections or connections per second. One load profile can be specified for an entire

test, or a separate load profile can be defined for each group of simulated users. You can also

turn on and off any protocol at any phase during the test. This flexible approach enables different

actions, network characteristics and loads to be specified for each group of simulated users. In

addition, up to eight simultaneous users can utilize the resources of a single Avalanche

3100B appliance to maximize your investment and test efficiencies.

Spirent Avalanche at a glance

40Gbps Line Rate Stateful Traffic–Provides the capability to generate line rate stateful traffic up

to 10Gbps allowing trunk ports to be directly tested or determine the impact of multiple GigE

ports being aggregated over 20Gbps–in addition the Avalanche 3100 is capable of bidirectional

testing and can operate in excess of 70Gbps from a single 3100 appliance

Flexible Load Profile–Flexible load profile offers testers the flexibility to specify load variables

such as connections per second, concurrent connections, transactions per second, new user

sessions per second and concurrent users

Expandable–The Avalanche 3100 is designed for the future in mind with the ability to be

expanded to up to 4-ports of 10Gbps interfaces for a total of 40Gbps of unidirectional line-rate

application traffic

Real-Time Statistics–Real-time statistics across all protocols and reporting tool that makes

analyzing results faster and easier

Network Devices Performance Testing–Provides performance and capacity testing on a variety of

network devices including: Firewall, Application Firewall, Load Balancer, Cache, Proxy, URL

Filter, Content Filter, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Reverse- Proxy, SSL Accelerator, HTTP/HTTPS

Accelerator, WAN Accelerators, SMTP Relay, IDS/IPS, IPSec VPN Gateway and SSL VPN Gateway

Application Server Performance Testing–Validates the performance of several types of real

servers including Web Server, CIFS Server, Application Server, Mail Server, DHCP Services,

FTP Server, DNS Server, Telnet Server, RTSP/RTP QuickTime Streaming Server, Multicast

Server, RTMP Servers, NFS, and more

Triple Play Performance Testing–Performs Triple Play testing, validates Triple Play service from

the user’s point of view with realistic voice calling, unicast and multicast streaming video, and

simulates Internet data traffic using static IP address or IP address assign by DHCP over PPPoE,

VLAN and Stacked VLANs (e.g. Q-in-Q)

Web Application Testing–Performs Web application testing including Web services, SOA, ERP 

and CRM applications with Spirent Avalanche’s application testing capability to support  cookie,

session ID, dynamic link, automatic follow redirect, additional header, content  validation, SOAP

message, think time, variable think time and variable assignment

Network Security Testing–Provides extensive testing for secure network communication,

vulnerability assessment with over 3000 attack profiles and user authentication including: IPSec,

SSL, 802.1x, Network Access Control (NAC) and RADIUS

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