APS-100/400GE Series

Problem: Quantify Unknowns in a Hyperscale World

Data center operators and service providers face exponential growth in encrypted traffic volumes and continually expanding attack surfaces driven by video streaming, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and an explosion of IoT devices. These shifts impact organizations of all sizes and they are accompanied by industry moves to 400GE, putting further demands on network infrastructure like next generation firewalls and application delivery controllers by delivering traffic at unprecedented speed - making it more critical than ever that data center network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and operators validate that their solutions can support these hyperscale loads without compromising security or usability.

Solution: Modular and Flexible Hyperscale Testing

Keysight’s APS Series next-generation application and security test platforms – including the APS-M8400 8x400GE QSFP-DD appliance, the APS-M1010 controller and the APS-ONE-100 appliance – leverage a modular, ‘pay-as-you-grow’ approach capable of generating hyperscale traffic loads while offering right- sized solutions to meet an array of testing needs and budget requirements.

The APS-ONE-100 appliance can be used individually, or multiple appliances can be stacked, scaling up to meet even the biggest application and security test demands. When stacked, the APS-ONE-100 appliances can be controlled by the APS-M1010 controller, which supports up to 10 appliances or the APS-M8400 appliance which features ultrafast 8x400GE QSFP-DD native I/O and supports up to 16 appliances. The APS Series of powerful test platforms enable NEMs to shorten their development cycles and help data center operators protect their critical infrastructure while delivering hyperscale end-user application performance.

A single APS-ONE-100 appliance can actively use up to four QSFP28 100GE interfaces per single test configuration to deliver unparalleled TLS performance of up to 100K TLS connections per second, 3.2M TLS concurrent connections and 150 Gbps of encrypted throughput powered by hardware-based TLS acceleration, significantly improving the transmission of realistic application mixes over TLS connections

Use the APS-M1010 controller to scale up to 10 compute nodes and drive hyperscale throughput like 3.4M TLS connections per second, 45M TLS concurrent connections and 1.78 Tbps of encrypted throughput.2

Need even more test capacity? Leverage the APS-M8400 appliance and its 8x400GE QSFP-DD native I/O to aggregate up to 16 compute nodes and harness the industry’s most powerful application and security test platform, capable of generating 1.6M TLS connections per second, 51M concurrent TLS connections and 2.4 Tbps of encrypted throughput.

Highlights 

Centralized ‘single pane of glass’ management of up to 16 APS-ONE-100 appliances simplifies testing and software upgrades, providing one IP address for the entire system

Maximize your test budget with a flexible ‘pay-as-you-grow’ model: run the APS-ONE-100 appliance in standalone mode or build a stacked system with the APS-M8400 400GE QSFP-DD to aggregate up to 16 compute nodes

• Get unrivaled elephant flow performance of up to 65 Gbps per single TCP connection

• Unparalleled encrypted traffic performance capabilities, generating up to 2.4 Tbps TLS throughput, 3.4M TLS connections per second and 51M TLS concurrent connections

• Generate hyperscale performance under realistic traffic conditions with Keysight’s industry-leading application and security test tools

• Future-proof your investment with an upgrade path to 8x400GE QSFP-DD and support for 400/100/50/40/25/10GE multi-speed modes1