SPIRENT PLATFORMS

Virtual Servers, Applications and

Multiplay Services

STORAGE FABRIC

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Spirent delivers an end-to-end testing solution that enables super high

performance testing with deterministic results. Service providers, NEMs and

enterprises can use it to test, measure and assure their networks and deploy

services with confidence.

Trusted Performance Spirent consistently delivers unmatched

scalability, performance and realism in service

provider, network equipment manufacturer

(NEM) datacenter, enterprise and public

tests. Spirent Cloud Core™ technology adds

native elastic computing to the Spirent Layer

2-7 software platform so users can optimize

testing tasks with parallel processing across

any number of test ports.

Unparalleled FlexibilitySpirent hardware solutions are designed for

customers’ testing requirements today and

tomorrow. From the ultra portable 2-port

Spirent C1 for router, switch, application and

security testing to the Spirent N11U chassis

for converged, high scale, multi-service device

testing to Spirent Virtual solutions for data

center infrastructure and cloud testing, Spirent

enables seamless testing within and across

physical and virtual environments.

Converged Innovation Industry leaders use Spirent to keep pace

with the latest technologies. Whether it’s

testing traffic across dual stack IPv6 and

IPv4 routers and switches, validating data

and individual virtual machines within the

cloud infrastructure, performing application-

aware security testing across virtualized

environments or converged network testing,

Spirent is there with the solutions and protocol

standards support necessary to guarantee

security, Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality

of Experience (QoE). Using the Spirent

unified platform, protocols can be layered

and scaled with confidence and without

performance degradation.

Everything You Need to Ensure the Highest Quality of Service

“Spirent allowed us to

demonstrate 40Gbe

performance with sub 285

nanosecond latency within the

GS0072 and also demonstrate

the scalability of the Gnodal

Fabric vital in delivering data

center applications.”

BOB FERNANDER, CEO

Enterprise / Cloud Networks

Carrier Networks Mobile / Wireless Networks

Secured Networks

Spirent provides end-to-end test

solutions for enterprise and

cloud environments, carrier networks, mobile networks

and network security.

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Virtual Servers, Applications and

Multiplay Services

STORAGE FABRIC

ETHERNET FABRIC

MPLSMOBILE BACKHAUL

DATA CENTER

APPLICATIONNETWORKING

ResidentialBroadband

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Spirent is there with the solutions and protocol

standards support necessary to guarantee security, Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of

Experience (QoE).

Optimized Infrastructure Spirent offers the hardware, software

and services necessary to reduce costs

and reduce time to test. Whether using

Spirent modules to speed testing or taking

advantage of new usability enhancements

that provide even faster configuration and

analysis, Spirent is there with the high-

performance solutions and expertise you

need to configure, execute, analyze and

optimize tests.

Automation plays a critical role in the

success of any test program today. Spirent

Test Expert adds the intelligence to Spirent

in the form of software wizards that guide

the user through a set of pre-defined

test cases, showing the user how to test.

Spirent ’s API is a powerful tool that can

replicate virtually any GUI functionality in

a script and the Command Sequencer is

an authoring tool seamlessly integrated

into Spirent ’s GUI. These automated tools

help you manage the test cycle from start

to completion.

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Spirent has earned the industry’s respect as the most trusted benchmarking platform for measuring performance,

density, scale and security. When the industry needs performance with accuracy, reliable results, and a versatile, scalable

test solution, it turns to the smarter platform — Spirent .

HIGH PERFORMANCEAlcatel-Lucent 7750 Router with FP3 processor.

Alcatel-Lucent used Spirent to verify FP3, its 400G chipset for extreme scale and multi-protocol routing capabilities. Spirent enables multi-protocol testing with a test port density of one-to-one between the test port and device under test (DUT).

EANTC SECURITY PERFORMANCECrossbeam X80-S

EANTC reached out to Spirent to test Crossbeam’s X80-S firewall in

a test environment that emulated a next generation mobile network

with one million active mobile subscribers and more than 107 Gbps

of data throughput.

Spirent Delivers Trusted Performance

Spirent C100

Spirent 40/100G module

400G

160G

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HIGH DENSITY Juniper QFabric System Test 1,536 ports of 10G Ethernet

Juniper Networks and Network Test used Spirent dX modules for the industry’s first

public 1,536 port 10G Ethernet test. This is 4X the port density ever publicly tested.

Network test, an independent test lab, conducted the most rigorous and extensive test

of QFabric, Juniper’s single layer data center fabric and foundation for new networks.

“Spirent’s test equipment enabled the validation and

demonstration of these benefits at a large scale.”

— R. K. ANAND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT

& GENERAL MANAGER

15 Terabits

2012 Frost & Sullivan Ethernet Market Leadership Award

Spirent Communications is the leader

in the global Ethernet testing market

with a share of 30.9 percent. Frost

& Sullivan recognized Spirent as the

market leader in each segment (1GbE,

10GbE and 40/100GbE) that it tracks

with shares of 27.9 percent, 32.9

percent and 34.1 percent respectively.

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Spirent Platform Hardware Delivers Unparalleled Flexibility

SPIRENT N4U

SPIRENT C1SPIRENT C100

SPIRENT N11U

The Spirent N11U chassis is the next generation in chassis

architecture, designed to handle complex multiprotocol scale

and cloud virtualization testing needs.

Ŋ Designed for today’s secure app-aware

mobile, enterprise and carrier networks

Ŋ Supports a full range of test cases

Ŋ Supports Spirent Avalanche, Spirent

Landslide and Spirent Studio applications.

A complete, modular testing solution for today’s and tomorrow’s technologies as well as next generation networks,

the Spirent platform evolves as testing needs change and grow, protecting test equipment return on investment.

The Spirent N4U is the next-generation mobile chassis. It

is designed for complex, multi-protocol scale and cloud

virtualization testing needs. The N11U and N4U are built to

accomodate the latest generation Spirent dX2, fX2 and CFP-2

based 100G test modules

N11U

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Ŋ Ideal for network element engineering development, design and test

groups requiring physical access to a test port on the workbench

Ŋ Ideal for network equipment manufacturers doing burn-in and

production line tests requiring low port count and compactness

Ŋ Ideal for technical and field marketing groups that need to mirror

actual network scenarios and traffic patterns so networks, services

and individual network elements can be quickly validated

Ŋ Validates virtualized network performance,

scalability and security

Ŋ Ensures seamless transitions when migrating to a

virtualized data center or cloud environment

Ŋ Reduces TCO by testing virtualized infrastructure

prior to hardware or end-to-end testing with a

single integrated system in a hybrid environmentVirtual

Spirent dXSpirent fX FC, POS, ATM

Spirent dX2 8-port 40/10G QSFP+

Spirent fX 2-port 100G CFP2

Spirent fX2 40G-Q5 Spirent CV 10G-S8 2 or 8 ports

FC Fibre Channel 8 ports

POS & ATM WAN Test 1 or 2 ports

WAN2002A

FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE DENSITY PERFORMANCE

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Spirent Platform Software Delivers Converged InnovationFrom emulating high scale networks to high performance applications, Spirent gives you the ability to test the breadth

and convergence of the technologies.

L A Y E R 2 – 7

SPIRENT TESTCENTER™ Network Infrastructure Test UI

The Spirent GUI emphasizes ease of use while offering very

powerful capabilities and a high degree of flexibility.

Ŋ Its object-oriented interface simplifies the creation of

multi-protocol topologies

Ŋ It introduces the emulated device concept and

automatically propagates the device’s configured

addresses to all protocols that it is required to emulate

Ŋ Built-in wizards and configuration accelerators reduce the

time-to-test

Ŋ Cause-effect testing is simplified because both results and

test configuration can be seen in a single view

L A Y E R 4 – 7

SPIRENT AVALANCHE™

Terabit Scale Application Performance/Security Test UI

Multi 10 Gbps security, attack and performance testing for

network infrastructures, Web application infrastructures,

virtual/cloud infrastructures and Triple Play services.

Ŋ 40Gbps line rate support for Spirent mX 40G modules

Ŋ Provides support for virtual environments, including

VMware, KVM, QEMU, Zen and Hyper-V

Ŋ Provides multi-protocol support

Ŋ Extensive, flexible reporting

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L A Y E R 4 – 7

SPIRENT STUDIO™

Application-Aware Security/Performance UI

Performance and security testing for application aware

networks enables service providers to manage network traffic

for better performance and security.

Ŋ Tests the impact of mixed security attacks and real

application traffic at scale

Ŋ Measures the accuracy of DPI-based detection

and classification

Ŋ Validates the effectiveness of configured policies

Ŋ Tests DUT traffic inspection capabilities of malware,

undesirable URLs and spam and its ability to take

appropriate defensive actions

L A Y E R 4 – 7

SPIRENT LANDSLIDE™

Mobility Test UI

The C100 platform emulates millions of mobile data

subscribers simultaneously accessing the wireless network.

Ŋ Emulates millions of mobile data subscribers

Ŋ Emulates all key wireless core packet data

network elements

Ŋ Combines control-plane and data-plane simulation

Ŋ New dual-port 10G interface significantly reduces the

amount of equipment, power and connections required to

test a high-performance mobile network

N11U N11UN4U N4UC100 C100

Spirent iTest is a software solution for test

productivity that integrates with Spirent TestCenter. Spirent iTest provides an

efficient approach for rapidly creating tests and

reproducing issues.

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Spirent Platform Delivers Optimized Infrastructure

Spirent out-performs and out-scales the competition to make it easier to achieve accurate, reliable testing

and results in less time.

Unrivaled Performance and ScaleCombining Cloud Core™ and Intel’s high performance multi-core

processors with the award-winning Spirent platform creates the

foundation for testing a new generation of converged IP carrier-grade

cloud data centers and 4G/LTE mobile networks.

Spirent Cloud Core™ is based on patented parallel processing technology

that adds native elastic computing and optimizes testing tasks to Spirent

TestCenter Layers 2-7 performance test platform. It delivers:

Ŋ Elastic protocol scale

Ŋ Data in real-time and identifies that one bad packet on the fly while

the test continues to run

Ŋ Scale and accuracy across chassis’ in real-time

Ŋ Changes TCP/IP stacks in real-time

Accurate, Intelligent, Dynamic ResultsThe industry’s most accurate and comprehensive set of real-time results

gives you the insight to eliminate customer-found defects that no other

test platform can.

Ŋ Intelligent Results correlates data with hierarchical results to find the

needle in the haystack and bring defects to the user’s attention

Ŋ Simplify drill-down analysis for transmit and receive statistics

delivers the information when you need it

Increase Testing EfficiencyMaintaining a test program that’s efficient and increases product or

service speed to market is key in today’s competitive world. Reduce your

time to test with Spirent TestCenter’s built-in automation tools.

Ŋ Spirent Test Expert software wizards show you how to test.

▸ Test cases guide the user through pre-defined test cases

step-by-step

▸ Finalized test cases can be run immediately from the test

environment or saved as a Tcl script

▸ Green capabilities include automatic shut-down and compliance

with ATIS automatic energy efficiency tests

Ŋ Spirent TestCenter API enables the test case author to replicate

GUI functionality in a user script. It lets you to work in the language

of your choice.

Ŋ Spirent iTest provides a comprehensive approach for rapidly

authoring test cases. With iTest, users can:

▸ Configure and orchestrate system testing with numerous devices

and traffic generators to create an automated system

testing solution

▸ Utilize advanced analysis and conditional logic for pass/fail criteria

▸ Create test cases for products or applications requiring CLI, SNMP,

Web, Java Swing, Flash (Flex), web services, VNC, serial port, Tcl,

or VMware vSphere

▸ Automatically generate documentation for every run, providing

proof of testing and concise information for reports and resolution

▸ Easily integrate with existing infrastructures and commercial

products for a tailored solution

▸ Create graphical topologies that provide a single-click connection

to any device in the testbed and run a setup, tear down,

or diagnostic procedure

Spirent offers the highest flexibility of computing resources at the best cost model compared to traditional performance test modules.

Ŋ 2x application encryption performance per module matches

the most demanding security testing needs

Ŋ 3x emulation scale test coverage.

Ŋ Single module testing of cloud data centers.

Ŋ 4x port density with half the power consumption.

Minimizes the need for additional space and power to scale

to 1.92 terabits in a single chassis.

Ŋ 8x network performance with line rate data. Extreme routing

and stateful application traffic on all ports.10

Spirent mXMOBILE MULTIPLAY EXPERIENCESpirent’s highest performing test module over high speed ethernet. Ensures performance and scale of high-density core networks and converged multi-play networks and devices.

Ŋ 2-port 100G module on CFP-2

Ŋ 2, 4, or 8 10GbE SFP+ port module options

Ŋ Line rate Layer 2-3 and stateful protocols

at mobile subscriber data scale

▸ 80 Gbps per module

▸ 960 Gbps per chassis

Ŋ Test access, routing, mobile backhaul,

mobility, cloud infrastructure and

application performance with

a single module

Ŋ Copper version available

Spirent fX2HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTINGfX2 module delivers the highest density and lowest total cost of ownership in its class and is ideal for testing next-gen multi-terabit service provider and cloud infrastructure

Ŋ 2-port 100G using CFP-2 optics

Ŋ 20-port 10G/5-port 40G dual-speed

Ŋ High Scale Terabit Routers—Test

Ethernet core routers with multi-protocol

topologies and line rate traffic

Ŋ Data Center Fabrics—Validate forwarding

performance and functional capabilities

Ŋ Enterprise Switches—Validate forwarding

performance and functional capabilities

of next-generation enterprise campus

and data center switches with ultra

low-latency, high port density and

FCoE capabilities

Spirent dX2FABRIC PORT DENSITYHighest density 10G and 40G dual-speed module for verifying cloud data center fabrics and switches

Ŋ 8-port 40G/32 port 10G QSFP+ module

Ŋ Load DUT to terabit fabric and backplane

capacity

Ŋ Designed to test the industry’s data center

Ethernet fabrics

▸ 320 Gbps per module

▸ 1.92 Tbps per chassis

▸ 15 Tbps per rack

Ŋ Spirent Command Sequencer is a visual test authoring tool

integrated within Spirent . Users can:

▸ Emulate dynamic network behavior in test cases without writing

a single line of code

▸ Author tests representative of events encountered in real networks

▸ Export these visual, automated tests as a script to be executed

within any regression test harness

“Verifying high-speed, high-capacity router

performance is not easy. Spirent ’s high port

density and simple GUI provided the results

necessary to verify the features and performance

of the router.”

— MR. JIN, SENIOR ENGINEER

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Asia and the Pacific+86-10-8518-2539salesasia@spirent.com

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