Avalanche is the most comprehensive and highest performance/capacity L4-L7 test solution available on the market today. Avalanche simulates today’s complex networks and applications to ensure that products and services will excel in a real-world environment. Real-world conditions are accurately replicated by simulating error conditions, realistic user behavior, and maintaining over one million open connections from distinct IP addresses. Avalanche can scale to the needs of even the world's largest infrastructures and is designed for network equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, and Web site managers that demand absolute realism and control under all conditions. Avalanche challenges any computing infrastructure's ability to stand up to the load and complexity of the real world.

Avalanche brings network, user and application realism to your test lab. Realism is at the core of the Avalanche architecture.

• User realism: Avalanche emulates the behavior of millions of simultaneous real users, including think times, click-aways, user frustration behaviours, browser versions, SSL versions, and authentication interacting with static or dynamic websites and proxies. From access to back-end application – no other tester provides compete user transaction coverage.
• Network realism: Avalanche generates traffic that replicates large networks, including the Internet. This realistic traffic recreates common issues such as asymmetric broadband connections, packet loss, IP fragmentation, large connection pools, and simulated network attacks as well as a wide range of network and applica¬tion protocols.
• Application realism: Avalanche provides massive amounts of realistic stateful Web 2.0 traffic. Avalanche extends application realism into advanced content areas with support for CIFS and other deep session protocol support functions. In addition Avalanche provides a scaling application protocol emulation engine for custom traffic flows and an attack database for vulnerability assessment testing. Avalanche is the only solution that can generate realistic, high-speed, stateful, and application-aware traf¬fic for determining the end-to-end performance of large network and application infrastructures.
  

• Benefits
• Features
• Specification
• Documents
• White Papers

Benefits

• Purchase the right amount and type of equipment to meet your requirements
• Reduce the risk of performance issues and outages by testing prior to deployment
• Verify that systems enforce policies and defend against attacks while maintaining performance
• Verify system optimization and policy updates to ensure system can handle peak traffic for response-time-sensitive applications
• Add custom flows for specific traffic modelling testing
  

Features

• Flexible Load Profile: Specify load variables such as connections, transactions and sessions per second and others
• Real-Time Statistics: Across all protocols with a reporting tool quick and simple analysis
• Web Application Testing: Web services, SOA, ERP and CRM applications
• Realist client support: One armed testing for actual web and application services
• Network Security Testing: Secure network communication, vulnerability assessment with real attacks and user authentication
• Performance Testing: For network devices, application servers and triple play applications
  

Specification

Interfaces	10/100/1000 Ethernet, 1GbE, 10Gbe
Automation	GUI to TCL and Automatic goal seeking using WorkSuite Manager
Protocols	IPv4, IPv6, DHCP, PPPoE, IPSec, 802.1Q and 802.1 Q-in-Q, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP (Active/Passive), DNS, TELNET, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, RADIUS, MM4, ICMP, CIFS and Capture/Replay, SIP over TCP, SIP over UDP, Unicast Streaming Quicktime RTSP/RTP, Unicast Streaming RealNetwork RTSP/RTP, Unicast Streaming Microsoft MMS, Multicast Streaming IGMPv2, IGMPv3, RTMP and MLDv2
Network Realism	Line speed limitation, network latency, packet loss and fragmentation
Transport	TCP, UDP, SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1
Authentication	802.1x, Network Access Control (NAC), Radius
Voice/Video Codec Supported	G711A, G711U, G.723.1, G726-32, G.728, G729AB, MPEG-1, H.261, MPEG-2. H.262, MPEG-4. H.264
Voice/Video Quality Measurement	MOS score based on R-Factor, MDI:DF, MDI:LR
Vulnerability Assessment	L2/L4 DDOS Attacks and L4/L7 Application Attacks including SANs Top-20 Internet Security Attacks
Reporting	Integrated CSV test results analyzer fully customizable with report generation in PDF and HTML

Documents

• Avalanche 290 Portable L4-7 Testing Solution Datasheet
• Avalanche 2900 Load Testing Appliance Datasheet
• Avalanche 802.1X and NAC Datasheet
• Avalanche Application Testing and Enhanced HTTP Datasheet
• Avalanche IP SEC Testing Datasheet
• Avalanche Load Testing Appliance Datasheet
• Avalanche Scalable Application Protocol Emulation Engine datasheet
• Avalanche Security Testing and Application Performance Datasheet
• Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics AP Module Datasheet
• Spirent TestCenter Layer 4-7 Test Solution Datasheet

White Papers

• Avalanche Load Generation White Paper
• Spirent Test Methodology L4-7 EditionTesting Layers 4-7