[July 28, 2009] BreakingPoint Adds Pioneering Features for Debugging 10 GigE Devices Tweet (Market Wire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) AUSTIN, TX -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 07/28/09 -- BreakingPoint unveiled today new capture and recreate functionality that enables QA and R&D engineers to more efficiently conduct 10GigE testing. 10GigE devices provide a unique challenge during debugging due to the immense amount of data flowing from the device. In order to easily test these devices one must have a large amount of capture history along with advanced filtering techniques to pinpoint problems. BreakingPoint provides 20x the capture buffer of its competitors and wire speed pre-processing on all incoming traffic to allow you to hone in on trouble areas. Additionally, BreakingPoint supports the industry standard Berkley Packet Filter (BPF) capability on both post-processing and traffic recreation. Watch the BreakingPoint Elite in action. News Overview -- BreakingPoint Elite reduces the time it takes to debug network equipment and application servers with the largest capture history among its competitors; 8 Gigabytes per blade, scaling easily to an unlimited amount. -- BreakingPoint Elite provides advanced filtering of packet captures in order to gather only the data needed including: -- Post-processing ability to compress the capture export, even allowing the user to specify start and end frames. -- Berkley Packet Filter (BPF) capability to isolate traffic by IP address, port, protocol and more; the same format used for libpcap. -- Ingress pre-processing filtering parameters based on VLAN ID, Source IP, Destination IP, Source Port and Destination Port. -- BreakingPoint Elite recreate allows users to incorporate data originating from a real network into tests, replaying stateful traffic using the TCP stack, including three-way handshakes and any necessary retransmissions. New features to BreakingPoint Elite recreate include: -- Importing IPv6 capture files -- Importing gzipped capture files -- Raw playback of traffic in order to test for common issues with ARP, RARP, TCP/UDP headers, TCP SYN floods, DDoS, invalid packets and more. BreakingPoint Capture and Recreate is Key Tool for QA and R&D Engineers Network equipment and application server manufacturers are continuously challenged with introducing the latest technologies while simultaneously decreasing their time to market and increasing the quality of their devices. Much of the time this challenge falls into the hands of QA and R&D engineers, who must test equipment with actual network traffic in order to debug issues. Using BreakingPoint Elite, engineers quickly import any live traffic packet captures they wish for automatic stateful replay. Additionally, BreakingPoint Elite allows engineers to pinpoint exactly the traffic they want to capture and recreate, in order to more quickly resolve any performance or security issues. Industry Commentary Dennis Cox, CTO and co-founder, BreakingPoint Systems "Until now, testing tools only provided the ability to capture megabytes of data, which is useless when testing 10GigE devices. We built BreakingPoint Elite to capture up to eight Gigabytes of traffic data per blade because we knew this would be the most beneficial to the user. This is the amount of traffic history you need, at the minimum, to properly test today's network equipment and application servers." Mr. Cox continued: "While the BreakingPoint Elite provides the largest capture buffer in the industry, we also wanted to make it easier to capture the gigabytes of traffic you actually need. In this latest release we now allow a granular level of filtering of captured buffer and enhanced abilities for importing and recreating the traffic. Now you have the amount of traffic history you need to test a 10GigE device and the means to capture and recreate exactly the traffic needed to create a more stable and better performing product." About BreakingPoint BreakingPoint's comprehensive application, performance and security testing tools ensure the resiliency of content-aware network devices and application servers. BreakingPoint is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices throughout the world. For more information visit breakingpoint.com and download the latest resources for realistic firewall testing, IPS testing, server load balancer testing and more. Image Available: http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/frame_mw?attachid=1031187 Add to Digg Bookmark with del.icio.us Add to Newsvine For Information Contact: Kyle Flaherty BreakingPoint Systems (512) 821-6059 Email Contact [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]