Enterprise network testing validates that networks can provide the availability, performance and scalability needed.

Today’s data center and enterprise networks must evolve to keep up with increasing demands. Converged Ethernet, virtualization, cloud computing and security requirements require high performance networks.

Enterprise network testing validates that networks can provide the availability, performance and scalability needed.

What to Test

Enterprise network testing should address:

• Performance—to optimize services and infrastructure for improved user experience; including 1GbE and 10GbE networks, and applications
• Jitter and latency—port pairs, meshes and cheating at latency; comparing store-and-forward and cut-through latency
• Availability—to ensure high availability in daily operation and under disaster conditions; fabric redundancy
• Security—to eliminate vulnerability and exposure between users and applications
• Scalability—to validate responsiveness as demand varies according to user needs
• Virtual appliances—including switches, firewalls and load balancers

Spirent Solutions

Spirent offers a holistic enterprise network testing solution that validates high performance data center and enterprise networks:

• Spirent Avalanche provides security, attack and performance testing for virtual/cloud infrastructures
• Spirent TestCenter’s easy-to-use, high-performance benchmarking accelerates enterprise network testing
• Spirent iTest automates test processes to accelerate system and device testing

• AvalancheAvalanche is the most comprehensive and highest performance/capacity L4-L7 test solution available on the market today.
• Spirent TestCenterExperience the Difference Spirent TestCenter makes to your development cycles
• Spirent iTestAutomate testing processes to accelerate system and device testing. iTest automates feature, black box, and regression testing to accelerate system and device testing.

• Network Test Selects Spirent for Testing Reliability and Scale of HP Enterprise Fabric SolutionsMay 7, 2013
• Spirent Enhances Application Realism and Security Testing Funtionality of Spirent mXFeb 6, 2013Spirent today announced the addition of Spirent Studio functionality on the Spirent HyperMetrics mX module. Test coverage now includes capabilities such as testing DPI, next-gen firewalls and traffic policies. The combination of capabilities allows test engineers to extract the maximum value out of the hardware they already own.
• Frost & Sullivan Names Spirent Communications the Global Leader in Ethernet Testing Nov 13, 2012Spirent Communications has received Frost & Sullivan’s 2012 Market Share Leadership Award for Ethernet testing. With a market share of 30.9 percent, Spirent is significantly ahead of its closest competitor. Frost & Sullivan also recognized Spirent as the market leader in each segment (1GbE, 10GbE and 40/100GbE) that it tracks.
• Huawei Selects Spirent to Validate Performance and Scale of Latest Data Center Solution Oct 15, 2012Spirent today announced that Huawei selected Spirent TestCenter to verify the performance of the newly launched CloudEngine 12800 series data center switches. This test of 384 ports of 10G Ethernet was conducted at massive scale under the most stressful yet realistic conditions, representing China’s first highest port density and TRILL and test.
• Spirent Launches Unified Platform with Unprecedented Performance, Scale and Application RealismJun 19, 2012Spirent Communications today introduced Spirent TestCenter C100, a next-generation testing architecture that enables carriers, enterprises and equipment manufacturers to validate that their terabit, application-aware networking platforms deliver the required performance, availability and security at scale.
• Spirent Tests the Performance and Scale of HP Enterprise Routers for Campus and Branch Network EnvironmentsJun 4, 2012Spirent Communications today announced that HP used Spirent TestCenter™ and Spirent Avalanche to validate that HP’s branch and campus routers deliver superior performance for cloud, rich media and enterprise applications.
• Gnodal Selects Spirent for Low-Latency Data Center Switch Fabric TestingMay 9, 2012Spirent Communications today announced that Gnodal selected Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics dX to showcase the performance of the GS-Series Family of switches including its latest GS-Series 40G Ethernet switch. Gnodal conducted low latency performance testing of the GS4008 and GS0072 High Speed Ethernet switches individually as well as part of a two-tier data center fabric.
• Spirent crowns the UK’s network heroesApr 30, 2012The unsung heroes of the network world will once again have their day, thanks to this year’s Network Heroes Awards sponsored by Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), the leader in network, devices and services testing. The Spirent Network Heroes Awards 2012 will be presented at a Black Tie Event in The Long Room at Lords Cricket Ground on the 27th September. Awards will be presented to those individuals judged to have made an outstanding effort in optimizing their company’s contribution in one or more of a variety of technical fields associated with networking, which resulted in business benefits to the company they work for.Nominations are now invited for individuals who, in the opinion of the nominator, have made an outstanding contribution to their company’s networking initiatives. Closing date for this year’s nominations is 29th June 2012.
• Spirent Communications plc Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Mu Dynamics, Inc. Apr 20, 2012Spirent Communications plc announces today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Mu Dynamics, Inc. (“Mu”), based in Sunnyvale, California, for a cash consideration of $40.0 million. Mu is a security testing pioneer, offering innovative solutions that enable faster, higher quality deployments of Cloud applications and applications-aware networks.
• Spirent Puts Performance and Scale of Juniper Networks QFabric Data Center Networking Solution to the TestMar 6, 2012Spirent Communications today announced that Network Test, an independent test lab, selected its solutions to complete the industry’s first public 1,536 port 10G Ethernet test of QFabric™, Juniper Networks’ data center network fabric.