BreakingPoint has announced a competitive upgrade offer designed to help network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers move from “rigid” legacy testing tools to BreakingPoint Elite, a new testing product launched just last week.

 

BreakingPoint Elite is a responsive and “easy-to-use” application, performance and security testing product which the company boasts offers, “unprecedented realism, session performance, throughput and ease-of-use features.”

 

The Breakthrough Performance program will run through December 31, 2008 and offers a discount on BreakingPoint Elite when trading in legacy test equipment from Agilent (News - Alert), Ixia or Spirent.

 

 

The product provides comprehensive Layer 2-7 testing for network equipment and application servers in a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use product and generates 15 million concurrent TCP sessions and 1.5 million TCP sessions per second; 20 Gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic in a 4 rack unit chassis; 80 Gigabits per second Layer 2-3 traffic in a 4 rack unit chassis.

 

According to the company, this product is the only product capable of testing the functionality of next generation content-aware equipment including application servers, content switches, load balancers, proxies, firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems.

 

The product also unifies multiple systems with a single configuration and interface, offering physical footprint/carbon footprint.

 

“The release of BreakingPoint Elite marks a dramatic shift within the testing industry as BreakingPoint further simplifies network equipment testing and shatters our own records for session performance and throughput without sacrificing the realism of our application traffic and security attacks,” said Des Wilson, CEO at BreakingPoint Systems.