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