Spirent Communications Adds Industry's Most Adv...

LAS VEGAS, May 20 /PRNewswire/ --

    - Vast Range of Scenarios, User Transactions Added to Latest Version 
Spirent Avalanche



    Spirent Communications plc (http://www.spirent.com/) (LSE: SPT), a leader
in network, services and devices testing, today announced new functionality
that supports the emulation of an unprecedented number of stateful
application protocols, empowering test engineers to easily create advanced
custom traffic profiles on Spirent TestCenter(TM) 
(http://www.spirent.com/go/stc) 
and Spirent Avalanche(TM) (http://www.spirent.com/go/avalanche). The new 
Scalable Application Protocol Emulation Engine (SAPEE) revolutionizes testing 
layer 2-7 applications by allowing test engineers and system architects to 
easily build, import or recreate their own proprietary protocols and 
transactions with full editing and modification capabilities.



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    Spirent's SAPEE platform addresses the ever-changing protocol mix faced
by enterprise and cloud computing networks as well as network equipment
manufacturers and service providers. This emulation engine accelerates
testing by allowing users to quickly and easily add pre-loaded profiles from
an extensive library which will initially include applications such as
BitTorrent(TM), Peer-to-Peer, Skype(TM), Instant Messaging, database access
and other traffic flows.



    "The concept of delivering a layer 2-7 tool with unlimited protocols and
transactions testing capabilities is extremely powerful," said Ahmed Murad,
General Manager, Multimedia Applications Solutions Group at Spirent
Communications. "SAPEE represents the first front-end traffic re-creation
solution designed to tackle virtually any requirement by extending the reach
of testing into non-traditional, emerging and next-generation protocols as
well as the ones already supported by Spirent Avalanche. This combination
gives users the means to test all aspects of a content delivery network today
without waiting for specific developments to meet their needs down the road."



    SAPEE adds to Spirent's holistic approach to data center testing by
bringing the realism of live networks into the development and pre-deployment
environment. Spirent Avalanche allows network engineers and system designers
to generate line rate stateful traffic at multiple 10Gbps capacities,
allowing trunk ports to be directly tested.



    This tool is the industry's most comprehensive layer 4-7 application
testing solution and supports all major protocols, including HTTP 1.0/1.1,
HTTPS, FTP, streaming media, IPv6, voice (SIP), mail (SMTP/POP3), DNS, SSL,
Telnet, 802.1Q VLAN tagging, IPSec, 802.1x, PPPoE, RTMP, CIFS, networks
attacks, and virtually unlimited numbers applications via the SAPEE function.



    SAPEE will be showcased during Interop 2009 at Spirent Booth #1051. The
solution can also be viewed at Spirent Proof of Concept (SPoC) Labs and
Collaboration Centers (http://www.spirent.com/go/spoc) in Beijing, London and
Sunnyvale. For more information please visit www.spirent.com/go/avalanche or
follow Spirent on Twitter at www.twitter.com/spirentcomm



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