Physical and virtual appliance

Avalanche Virtual—combined with the physical hardware of Avalanche—allows for unmatched testing performance of firewalls, load balancers, servers and other devices through a single GUI.

Real and replayed user emulation

With native support for the most popular protocols and the ability to emulate at scale any captured protocol, Avalanche Virtual offers unmatched realistic testing in a virtual environment.

Client and/or server emulation

Avalanche Virtual’s ability for client/server emulation and “one arm” testing allows for the validation of the virtual infrastructure or services from a single virtual machine to 100,000s virtual machines.

Lowest cost per emulated user

With the cost of emulated user at only “pennies to the dollar” compared to the closest competitor, Avalanche Virtual offers the highest RoI while reducing TCO.

Spirent Avalanche Virtual is the only test solution that offers both client and server emulation required to accurately replicate real user traffic in cloud environments. Key features of Avalanche virtual include:

• Client Only: Emulates millions of users requesting application services, such as web, email, database, etc., deployed in virtual environments to accurately measure the QoE at cloud subscriber level
• Client/Server: Emulates millions of real-world subscribers (clients) and application services (servers) end-to-end to measure QoS and QoE impact on each infrastructure component
• User Realism: Avalanche provides realistic user behavior based on a specific browser, authentication, task, timing, content validation, etc., necessary to interact with actual deployed applications
• "On-the-Fly" Load: The user load can be dynamically grown in size during the test to see the impact of surge on the application load and response times
• Detailed Statistics: Detailed run-time and post-run statistics help to accurately and succinctly identify the bottlenecks in the network and applications