Data Center Testing

Spirent offers the industry’s first holistic, end-to-end solution that validates tomorrow’s data centers. To understand how Spirent can help your data center deployment be successful, click below:

Converged Ethernet

Ethernet has proven that it is the technology to invest in where competing technologies such as Token Ring, FDDI and ATM have failed. With advancements in speed, constant price reduction and the goal of simplifying the network, Ethernet is positioned to replace Fibre Channel in the SAN. But for this to happen, interoperability must first achieved and overcoming Ethernet’s best effort approach to mimic Fibre Channel’s lossless network.

Spirent provides the ability to understand the performance from the individual components of the data center to the system as a whole. Whether its benchmarking Fibre Channel, analyzing if Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or validating the performance of 40G, Spirent’s solution will help you understand the impact as Ethernet is introduced in the SAN.

Network Virtualization

Virtualization is hot topic gaining momentum in the industry since it provides many advantages such as leveraging the efficiencies of a large data center. One component of virtualization that is receiving attention is multiple virtual machines on a single server. This is not a new concept and has been around for years but to the levels that are possible now open the door to seemly endless opportunities. But this door also opens a lot of questions around the impact to performance.

Spirent helps in understanding the challenges when testing virtualization. With the ability to test intra server performance (from one virtual instance to another), inter server performance (from one server to another server) and infrastructure performance (server through the network), Spirent provides an holistic view to data center testing. Spirent not only has specialized hardware for testing from GigE to 100G, the same software is able to correlate results with test software installed on the virtual instances. There is no other solution in the industry with this capability.

Cloud Optimization & Security

Cloud computing allows for resources to be shared and accessed remotely. Although transparent to users, Service Providers and Enterprise IT Managers how to make guarantee that performance is equivalent, if not superior, than locally run services. For this reason it the infrastructure making it possible but to the Enterprise Manager or Service Provider, these are important details. Network availability, bandwidth consumption and performance under attack are critical in understanding how the system can be loaded.

Spirent allows analysis to be performed at any point within the data center but more importantly, from the end user allowing for QoE analysis.