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BreakingPoint Adds Pioneering Features for Debugging 10 GigE Devices
(Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) AUSTIN, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/28/09 --
BreakingPoint unveiled today new capture and recreate functionality that enables
QA and R&D engineers to more efficiently conduct 10GigE testing. 10GigE devices provide a unique challenge
during debugging due to the immense amount of data flowing from the device.
In order to easily test these devices one must have a large amount of
capture history along with advanced filtering techniques to pinpoint
problems. BreakingPoint provides 20x the capture buffer of its competitors
and wire speed pre-processing on all incoming traffic to allow you to hone
in on trouble areas. Additionally, BreakingPoint supports the industry
standard Berkley Packet Filter (BPF) capability on both post-processing and
traffic recreation.
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News Overview
-- BreakingPoint Elite reduces the time it takes to debug network
equipment and application servers with the largest capture history
among its competitors; 8 Gigabytes per blade, scaling easily to an
unlimited amount.
-- BreakingPoint Elite provides advanced filtering of packet captures in
order to gather only the data needed including:
-- 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.
BreakingPoint Capture and Recreate is Key Tool for QA and R&D Engineers
Network equipment and application server manufacturers are continuously
challenged with introducing the latest technologies while simultaneously
decreasing their time to market and increasing the quality of their
devices. Much of the time this challenge falls into the hands of QA and R&D
engineers, who must test equipment with actual network traffic in order to
debug issues.
Using BreakingPoint Elite, engineers quickly import any live traffic packet
captures they wish for automatic stateful replay. Additionally,
BreakingPoint Elite allows engineers to pinpoint exactly the traffic they
want to capture and recreate, in order to more quickly
resolve any performance or security issues.
Industry Commentary
Dennis Cox, CTO and co-founder, BreakingPoint Systems
"Until now, testing tools only provided the ability to capture megabytes of
data, which is useless when testing 10GigE devices. We built BreakingPoint Elite to
capture up to eight Gigabytes of traffic data per blade because we knew
this would be the most beneficial to the user. This is the amount of
traffic history you need, at the minimum, to properly test today's network
equipment and application servers."
Mr. Cox continued:
"While the BreakingPoint Elite provides the largest capture buffer in the
industry, we also wanted to make it easier to capture the gigabytes of
traffic you actually need. In this latest release we now allow a granular
level of filtering of captured buffer and enhanced abilities for importing
and recreating the traffic. Now you have the amount of traffic history you
need to test a 10GigE device and the means to capture and recreate exactly the traffic needed
to create a more stable and better performing product."
About BreakingPoint
BreakingPoint's comprehensive application,
performance and security testing tools ensure the resiliency of
content-aware network devices and application servers. BreakingPoint is
headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices throughout the world. For more
information visit breakingpoint.com and download the latest resources for
realistic firewall testing, IPS testing, server load balancer testing and
more.
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For Information Contact:
Kyle Flaherty
BreakingPoint Systems
(512) 821-6059
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