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July 13, 2011

Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories Picks Spirent for Cloud Security Testing

By Jyothi Shanbhag, TMCnet Contributor

To deliver reliable and secure services to customers, Chunghwa Telecom, the research and development arm of Chunghwa Telecom has picked Spirent Communications (News - Alert) for testing its cloud computing centers.

Taiwan’s largest network operator, Chunghwa Telecom has selected Spirent Avalanche Virtual, an “all-in-one” cloud testing solution, as well as Spirent Avalanche, a layer 4-7 application performance test solution.

With Spirent Avalanche Virtual, CHTTL can rely on both client and server emulation, required to accurately replicate real user traffic in cloud environments and to validate the robustness and resiliency of the cloud with encrypted traffic and threats.

Spirent Avalanche Virtual promises to offer the empirical data required for the performance of applications deployed in the cloud, enabling enterprises and cloud service providers to understand the impact of large-scale cloud-based application deployments against their expected quality of experience benchmarks.

The new deployment of Spirent solution and testing with them will enable CHTTL to replicate attacks in a cloud computing environment for virtual firewall testing, and to measure the performance of virtualized network infrastructures and applications deployed in the cloud.

“Many enterprises and service providers are planning to deploy cloud networks and services, and security is definitely their top concern,” said Gene Zhang, vice president, Asia at Spirent Communications, “By leveraging Spirent’s cloud computing test solution for both infrastructure and applications, especially our security test application tailored for virtualized networks, Chunghwa Telecom (News - Alert) is able to ensure it offers high-performance, reliable and secure cloud services.”

With new testing solution, Chunghwa Telecom is prominently placed to call itself the best cloud service provider and will enable its customers to totally rely of its service. According to Chunghwa Telecom, Spirent’s security solutions enable it to ensure that its cloud platform is reliably delivering the business benefits of elastic computing.


Jyothi Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Rich Steeves
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