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Spirent’s Avalanche/290 SPIRENT AVALANCHE AVALANCHE 290 PORTABLE LAYER 4-7 TESTING SOLUTION APPLICATIONS • Field Web and Infrastructure Testing • Remote Server Farm Emulation • Advanced Security Testing • Proof of Concept/Predeployment Network Verification • Testing cloud and virtualized services • Storage and WAN accleration The Avalanche 290 rounds out Spirent’s end-to-end Layer 4-7 family of solutions. Today, it is essential that the performance of content-aware networks, security systems and Web applications are carefully tested to ensure business transactions and communication are not adversely affected. The Spirent Avalanche 290 is a high performance, stateful traffic functional testing solution capable of high throughput and high capacity application layer testing using the power of the Avalanche testing architecture. BENEFITS • Full-featured Avalanche test solution in a small package that can be taken on the road for tests anywhere, anytime • Compatible with Avalanche 2900 and Avalanche for Spirent TestCenter™; all tests conducted on Avalanche 290 can be used on any platform supported by Avalanche—tests will scale from 1G to 10G • Client and Server in same appliance: Avalanche 290 is fully self-contained and provides simultaneous client and server emulation for complete testing • Drives over 1Gbps of high performance traffic for demanding Layer 4-7 testing applications Spirent’s Avalanche™ 290 portable appliance solution provides high capacity, security and performance testing for network infrastructure in a small portable package. The Avalanche 290 has all the power of the industry-leading Avalanche testing solution supported on hardware small enough to be carried under your arm. 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AVALANCHE 290 PORTABLE LAYER 4-7 TESTING SOLUTION SPIRENT AVALANCHE USER REALISM • Portable high-performance appliance for realistic Layer 4-7 testing • Emulates client and server in same appliance • Allows flexible load specifications that can be applied globally or per user profile: User sessions, new sessions per second, transactions, transactions per second, connections or new connections per second • Supports Web Services testing • Allows interaction with dynamic content sites • Emulates multiple browser types • Supports cookies, session IDs, HTML forms, HTTP posts and HTTP basic and proxy authentication • Simulates user click patterns with configurable “think times” • Simulates user click-aways (HTTP aborts) NETWORK REALISM • Handles multi-level HTTP redirects • Supports HTTP proxies and proxy caches • Enables network delay settings • Packet loss simulation • Allows simulation of TCP/IP stack characteristics and control over: • Maximum segment size • Slow start/congestion avoidance • VLAN tagging • IP fragmentation • TCP timeout behavior • Link-speed emulation (from 9600 bps to Gigabit LAN speeds) • Network Access Protocol—DHCP, PPPoE and IPSec • Network realism—Line speed limitation, network latency, packet loss and fragmentation • IP Version Supported—IPv4 and IPv6 • Encapsulation—Protocol 802.1Q and 802.1 Q-in-Q • Transport—TCP, UDP, SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1 • Data Protocol—HTTP, HTTPS, FTP (Active/Passive), DNS, TELNET, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, RADIUS, CIFS, MM4, ICMP, NFS and advance Capture/Replay • Extended Protocols—BitTorrent, Gnutella, MSN, Yahoo, SKYPE, SQL, MYSQL, Oracle, SMB, NFS, Remote Desktop, Exchange, LDAP and more • Authentication—802.1x, Network Access Control (NAC), Radius • Voice Protocol—SIP over TCP and SIP over UDP • Voice Codec Supported—G711A, G711U, G.723.1, G726-32, G.728 and G729AB • Voice Quality measurement—MOS score based on R-Factor • Video Protocol—Unicast Streaming Quicktime RTSP/RTP, Unicast Streaming RealNetwork RTSP/RTP, RTMP • HTTP Adaptive Streaming for Apple®, Microsoft®, and Adobe® • Unicast Streaming—Microsoft MMS, Multicast Streaming IGMPv2, IGMPv3 and MLDv2 • Video Codec Supported—MPEG-1, H.261, MPEG-2. H.262, MPEG-4/H.264 • Video Quality measurement—MDI:DF and MDI:LR • Vulnerability Assessment—L2/L4 DDOS Attacks and L4/L7 Application Attacks including SANs Top 20 Internet Security Attacks–over 7500 IPv4 and IPv6 attacks available HIGH PERFORMANCE 1,000MBPS OF BACK-TO-BACK LAYER 4-7 BANDWIDTH • Simulates up to 250,000 simultaneously connected users • Generates up to 10,000 requests per second (HTTP 1.0 with no persistence) and over 25,000 requests per second (HTTP 1.1 with persistence) • Sustains over 1,000 HTTPS requests per second with no SSL session ID re-use • Generates over 5,000 streaming requests FLEXIBLE REPORTING • Avalanche Analyzer generates reports and graphs that can be exported in JPG, PDF and HTML formats • Real-time statistics provide instant feedback during infrastructure performance tests INTUITIVE OPERATION • Fast set-up • Easy-to-use GUI • Test new functionality without writing extensive scripts AVALANCHE 290 PORTABLE LAYER 4-7 TESTING SOLUTION SPIRENT AVALANCHE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Integrated Hardware and Software • 4 ports 10/100/1000bps client/server operation • Portable, compact load testing appliance Dimensions 4" H x 9" W x 11" D (10.1cm H x 22.8cm W x 27.9cm D) Weight 7 lbs. (3.2 kg) Operating Environment 0°C –45°C Non-Operating (Storage) Environment 20°C –80°C Relative Humidity 10% to 90% (non-condensing) Power Requirements • Input rating 100–240V AC, 2A, 50/60 Hz • Output rating 24V DC, 2.5A, 60W (max) Maximum Power Consumption 2A, 110V Network Interfaces • Four 10/100/1000Base-T test interfaces • One management 10/100Base-T port Regulatory Approvals • FCC Class A • CE REQUIREMENTS An IBM ® compatible PC must meet the following minimum requirements to run the Spirent Avalanche: • One 10/100/1000Base-T unshielded twisted pair (UTP) cable • One 10 Mbps or 10/100/1000 Mbps • Ethernet NIC card • Intel ® E6300 Core 2 Duo 4 (or equivalent) • One serial port • Minimum of 2 GB of RAM • Minimum 10 GB free space on the hard drive • Windows ® XP operating system, Service Pack 2 (SP2) • An SVGA color monitor (or equivalent) and a mouse • Microsoft Terminal Services™ or HyperTerminal™ or equivalent communications software package • CD-ROM drive © 2011 Spirent Communications, Inc. All of the company names and/or brand names and/or product names referred to in this document, in particular the name “Spirent” and its logo device, are either registered trademarks or trademarks pending registration in accordance with relevant national laws. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. Rev. E 10/11 AMERICAS 1-800-SPIRENT • +1-818-676-2683 • sales@spirent.com EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST +44 (0) 1293 767979 • emeainfo@spirent.com ASIA AND THE PACIFIC +86-10-8518-2539 • salesasia@spirent.com AVALANCHE 290 PORTABLE LAYER 4-7 TESTING SOLUTION SPIRENT AVALANCHE ORDERING INFORMATION Part Number Description CEE-290 Avalanche 290 with 4-Port GIGE and Base Avalanche Software (HTTP/FTP/DNS and Telnet) CEE-SWB-030-PT CEE-SWB-030-PT AVALANCHE 290 Extreme Protocol Bundle - Includes all protocols and features CEE-SW-8021X-PT AVALANCHE 290 802.1X CLIENT CEE-SW-APP-PT AVALANCHE 290 APPLICATION TESTING CLIENT CEE-SW-CIFS-PT AVALANCHE 290 CIFS CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-DHCP-PT AVALANCHE 290 DHCP CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-IPSEC-PT AVALANCHE 290 IPSEC CLIENT CEE-SW-IPV6-PT AVALANCHE 290 IPV6 CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-MAIL-PT AVALANCHE 290 SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-MM4-PT AVALANCHE 290 MULTIMEDIA MESSAGING SVC MM4 CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-MS-PT AVALANCHE 290 WINDOWS MEDIA STREAMING CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-PPP-PT AVALANCHE 290 PPP OVER ETHERNET CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-RAD-PT AVALANCHE 290 RADIUS CLIENT CEE-SW-RTMP-PT AVALANCHE 290 RTMP CLIENT CEE-SW-RTSP-PT AVALANCHE 290 RTSP/RTP CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-SIP-PT AVALANCHE290 SIP CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-SSL-PT AVALANCHE 290 SSL CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-VOD-PT AVALANCHE 290 VIDEO ON DEMAND MULTICAST CLIENT/SERVER CEE-SW-VQA-PT AVALANCHE 290 VIDEO QUALITY ANALYSIS CLIENT CEE-SW-WSM-PT AVALANCHE 290 WORKSUITE MANAGER CEE-SW-1XNAC-PT AVALANCHE 290 802.1x and NAC CEE-SW-SAPEE-PT AVALANCHE 290 Scalable Protocol Emulation Engine CEE-SW-NFS-PT AVALANCHE 290 NFS Client CEE-SW-VAD-PT AVALANCHE 290 Vulnerability Assessment and Attack Generator CEE-SW-UNICAST-PT AVALANCHE 290 Video Streaming Package - Unicast SPIRENT SERVICES Spirent Global Services provides a variety of professional services, support services and education services—all focused on helping customers meet their complex testing and service assurance requirements. 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