PerfectStorm 40GE, High-Performance Application and Security Load Modules

Keysight’s PerfectStorm family of 40GE load modules delivers the industry’s most scalable solution for testing converged multi-play services, application delivery, and network security platforms for both wired and wireless networks.

The architectural breakthrough of the PerfectStorm family adopts the technology innovations built around Keysight’s Xcellon-Ultra and BreakingPoint Firestorm hardware families, resulting in a revolutionary converged solution with optimal flexibility and performance, to meet the requirements of today’s and future next-generation networks.

The proliferation of dynamic and evolving applications, along with an increase in advanced malicious attacks, has created a dangerous lack of control and visibility into both the performance and security of IT infrastructures.

The world is becoming an always-connected, mobile environment, with massive volumes of traffic flowing through WANs, LANs, and data centers. The increase in network traffic scale, complexity, and types is causing a huge upswing in data center port counts and technology diversity.

As bandwidth requirements press the limits of networking devices towards the terabit level and users drive 10x more TCP connections per second compared with the last 2-3 years, equipment manufacturers, datacenters, and service providers must keep pace by introducing even higher-density 10GE, 40GE, and 100GE equipment.

Equipped with powerful multi-core, multi-threaded network processors, PerfectStorm is Keysight’s nextgeneration architecture designed to satisfy the testing needs of those manufacturers. As service providers and large enterprises implement this same equipment in their own networks, they must also test and verify performance and functionality prior to deployment.

A single, integrated system equipped with 12 PerfectStorm blades, allows control of application traffic to nearly a terabit, up to 720 million concurrent connections, and new TCP connections rates of up to 24 Million. The hardware-based acceleration supports massive encryption levels with up to 240Gbps of SSL traffic and 480Gbps of IPsec traffic per system. The system uses inline field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for enhanced accuracy pertaining to latency measurements with a resolution of 10ns.

Massive-Scale, Easy-To-Use and High-Fidelity Simulations to Battle-Test Today's High-Volume, Dynamic, Converged Networks and Data Center Infrastructures

The modular PerfectStorm platform creates real-world, high-stress conditions and user behavior to provide organizations the insight to battle-test IT infrastructures, train cyber warriors, tune systems and policies, and transform security processes to be proactive and effective.

The Keysight PerfectStorm is the essential solution to:

• Evaluate next-generation content-aware security devices

• Rollout converged multiplay services

• Benchmark and validate performance of network infrastructures and network devices

• Harden 3G/4G/LTE mobile networks

• Deploy compact cyber ranges and train cyber warriors

• Optimize virtualized data centers

• Tune systems and policies

• Mitigate IT risk

Highlights

• Unified applications and security test platform, with support for BreakingPoint and IxLoad software

• Massive-scale and realistic traffic conditions

• Hardware-based acceleration for SSL and IPsec

• Multi-user environment leverages the per-port user ownership model for all ports on the test modules installed into the chassis

• Resource aggregation

• Native 40GE QSFP+ interfaces with support for 4 x 10GE SFP+ per port via fan-out cables

• The Keysight PerfectStorm is the essential solution to:

• Evaluate next-generation content-aware security devices

• Benchmark and validate performance of network infrastructures and network devices

• Harden 3G/4G/LTE mobile networks

• Deploy compact cyber ranges and train cyber warriors

• Optimize virtualized data centers

• Tune systems and policies

• Mitigate IT risk

• Rollout converged multiplay service

• Evaluate storage infrastructure and devices